Ar Wahan's home office water cooler

Here is the entire "periodical section" of my town's 900-square-foot library (the rack only has room for three issues of each periodical, which are displayed in alphabetical order. Issues older than three months must be discarded.).



Now look more closely . . .

( Unless you are vegetarian . . . )

Library lost.

382 for the new library

423 against.

The state would have given us 60% of the cost towards construction with a yes vote.

People I know have wor4ed YEARS for this, and a handful of fear-mongering people who told lies got their way.

It started snowing here Monday night, and continued nonstop through yesterday evening. It wasn't very heavy, though - only about 8" of new snow on the ground.

Today is our weekly "curbside" trash and recycling pickup day. I use the quotation marks because the adjective suggests we have "curbs" here, and we don't! (I don't think there's a single sidewalk anywhere in town.)

We are all used to the snowplows knocking down or, at the least, denting our roadside mail boxes.

This morning I put my office's blue "Staples" brand paper recycling container at the end of the driveway, next to the trash barrel and the larger blue recycling bin that contained newspapers and such.

The big bin had been knocked about 15 feet along the road into a snowbank off our front yard. And the smaller one, still at the head of the driveway, had a rip down one corner about 12" long! The plow's shovel must have hit it just right.