Lucky dog

My audiologist threw up her hands as if defending herself from a vampire. “Oh, no!” she said, pretty much as if... well, as if a vampire were on her desk. Fortunately for both of us, there were no vampires. Merely the remnants of the hearing aid for my right ear.

Welcome to the world, Charlee

Late afternoon on January 16th 2020 I decided to take a nap. I woke up around 3 hours later and realized my water had broke!

Town Talk

Long-time Stroud resident Delmer Summers suffered a terrible loss when his home went up in flames this past Saturday. His daughter Kalah resides with him but was not home at the time. I spoke with Delmer, and he told me he was lighting a kerosene heater when it just blew out on him.

The quest for missing items

Sunday afternoon I started searching for a couple of things in a desk drawer that I knew I could put my hands on pretty quickly. Or at least I thought I could. To me, they are significant because of my involvement in an organization that I have been part of more than 3½ decades.

Resolutions

After a quick review of last year, I am happy to report that I cleared New Year’s without breaking any of my three main resolutions for 2022. They were: - To not eat liver any time during the year. - To not visit Kazakhstan - To lose some weight.

Remembering quail hunting

Sunday marked the beginning of a new year, 2023. In reflecting on what some New Year’s Days used to be like when I growing up, I began to think about some of those when I was a teenager. From the time I was around 13 or so, and we had a bird dog, dad and I spent a lot of them quail hunting.

Town Talk

Happy New Year to each of you from Town Talk volunteers. The new year is here and things in our community are back in full swing. School is back in session as of yesterday (Wednesday). Additional activities taking place this week are Hospital Development Authority at 7 a.m.

Editorial

The recent appointment of current District Attorney Adam Panter to serve a four-year term as DA of Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties signals a continuation of turning that office around and getting it fixed.

An un-crazy Christmas

Christmas is always full of laughs and craziness in my family. This year was a lot calmer and pretty quiet. We started the morning showing Charlee and Tillie that Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk they left out for him. Then we moved on to opening gifts.

Expen$ive dog

Two weeks ago Saturday morning, I was going to put in my hearing aids before coming to the office for a few hours. Curious thing, though. The charger for the aids on the kitchen was knocked on its side and the aid for my left ear was a few inches away.