indiana territory: September 2007

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

COLTS DID WELL TODAY. YES!!!!!!

I enjoyed watching the game today, not having to think "oh, please, oh please, oh, please" or scream, "Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!" Talented people doing things well are a pleasure to watch.

BEARS BEARS BEARS

Oh, Chi Bears, you are leading, but by only seven to three. Griese tried to throw a touchdown pass and two guys grabbed it and the Detroit Lions came up with it. Is there not a rule about being in control of the ball when you go down? I guess they would actually call it an air fumble and recovery. Whatever. Go Bears. Go and Go and Go.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

THE GREAT RAID

Now, I am watching The Great on AMC about the rescue of prisons from the Japanese prison camp in the Phillippines. Don't you think it's time we got ourselves in gear to make products as well as the Japanese do? I mean, at least we should do it to validate those whose lives were nipped short in the attempt to defend this country.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

AMERICAN MADE AUTOMOBILES

Hey, guess what? The UAW is doing the strike thing again, and apparently, a tentative contract has been reached with GM. They are moving on to Ford and Crysler. Well, isn't that special? Do you have any idea how many American-made cars are on Consumer Reports' best used car value list? Out of approximately 60 vehicles, three are from the US: Buick Regal, Pontiac Vibe and Chevrolet Prizm. As for most of the others, can you say Japan. Yes, the fellows who we are watching on Ken Burns' "The War" series in the role of enemy and Bataan Death March organizers make better cars. This is embarrassing.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

DON'T LET YOUR DOG EAT BAD STUFF

Click on Dog Eats to see pictures and get information about foods your doggie shouldn't sample, gobble or maybe even lick.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

SPIKEY IMPROVES SUMMER ART

BY PUBLIC DEMAND

SOME ART FROM SUMMER VANCE

Will Spikey be hopping over from High Country Meadow to critique Summer's art?

Friday, September 21, 2007

ROTTEN APPLE?

Hey, if a 59 year old lady in the Midwest is citing articles about problems with Apple, that should tell you something. Look here.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

NOT LAST TUESDAY

You know what I like about this particular Tuesday? Well, I am not going to get up tomorrow extremely early in the morning to leave a super nifty oceanside motel in Pacific Beach, California. Of course, last week I was lying on the beach at this time, looking forward to some fish tacos at Rubio's. Today, I had a baked potato and am lying on the sofa in the sitting room.

Oh, PB, leaving you was so sad - although I do have some of your sand in my suitcase.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Gnome at Pacific Beach hotel

OH NO

Checking the brochure for the Apple Festival, it looks as if the Wellspring Fiddlers will not be performing this year. This is a terrible development.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

BACK FROM SAN DEIGO

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

COWS AND YOUTUBE

Some places are dangerous to visit.

Monday, September 03, 2007

INTO FALL

I am not so certain I am ready to start autumn, but since summer days ran together, I suppose fall will do the same and it won't be long until I am looking at the first of winter. My mother says the rule on Indian Summer is that it comes after the first snowfall; we will see. Halloween things are in the stores - perhaps I will buy a three-foot skeleton from the The Dollar Tree.

The sun is moving to the south now and in the late morning the upstairs sitting room with windows to the south and west is filled with sunshine, coming in at a cheerful angle. Ah, so much for the H&G report . . .

I am still very bummed about the Crocodile Hunter. He was so full of life and, then, like a light switch, it was gone. I liked him a lot more than I realized. Damn, I don't want to accept that he was killed.

Explorers used to go into unknown territory to see what was there; I am going into the realm of blogs to see what I can add, and, in writing posts about my life here in Northeast Indiana, to see what I can discover about myself and the place I live. Maybe this is not so much a new-fangled blog as it is an old-fashioned pot-bellied stove around which stories and news are exchanged and shared.

: Name: Jody

Yo, there. Okay, I don't exactly look like my picture here. I have written for some papers in different places and at present I am writing for the Kendallville Mall. You may have read some of my articles; you may not have. A lot of the time I write for myself, and sometimes I don't do it on paper. Sometimes I write in my mind where the words can soothe or encourage or firmly establish a feeling in my memory place. Would that be my heart? Maybe. Sometimes I write funny stuff; I think I am at times melancholy. I don't think of myself as a writer or storyteller. I believe I just have a need to attach words to things. Perhaps it is a way of praying , a need such as that expressed by C.S. Lewis in the movie Shadowlands:"That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me."

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