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08/31/2003 Archived Entry: "FRESH AIR AND ASSORTED THINGS"

FRESH AIR AND ASSORTED THINGS

I'm trying to pump all the stale air from our house and let in a lot of the fresh stuff we have surrounding us now. Nothing is better, imo, than clean air after a good rain...or while it is raining. Artificial cooling and heating does something to air...ruins it some how. Filters don't do that much good either. I know we can't really survive in Kansas without it, but I wish there were a way. Ocean air is the best!

It was cool enough today that I thought I'd brew up a batch of vegetable soup. I put almost every veggie known to man in it and figger it's good for us. We go through a lot of soup in this household. I also baked a pan of sour cream brownies laden with walnut halves and noticed a big bowl of that and chocolate chip ice cream just pass by me. He said it's easy to cook. Someone is hungry.

I thought the accident and the tragic loss of life of the Marquette boys would make the first page of the Journal. Not so. I think there have been so many teenage fatal car accidents in recent months that they are not "news" and relegated to obscure places toward the back of the paper. Such a tragic loss of life.

My plan to read my mail on the server is working pretty well. There hasn't been that much of it, but there is a preponderance of virus-laden mail still coming my way. I had a letter from a friend in Florida last night who said she had worms crawling all over her computer and was stymied as to how to remedy the problem. (She wrote me on another computer to tell me of her dilemma.)

Brit said they had 6" of rain down toward Emporia where 35 washed out last night. Seven cars were swept off the highway and four people were killed, according to early reports.

Our dove hunting friends might find the terrain rather soupy for scaring up birds. I don't know...there are so many doves, maybe they just use the gun stock and whack them. We feed them and try to keep them around. Different strokes!