Rock Wall

Picnic over.. There were a few rides parked on Broadway as we came to work Monday, but Main Street was clear. Reese, at three years old, has already got the hang of the Picnic. She saw a ride outside our front window at the newspaper with enclosures that she called a room. She kept talking

Picnic here. At least on Monday the lot on East Spring Street is starting to fill up. When I was a kid I picked black berries and dewberries to sell so I would have money for the Picnic. I don’t remember the price – maybe a dollar or dollar and a quarter a gallon and

We got a response to my hummingbird question. James W. Rosbrugh sent an email to Kimball: “Yes, we have several hummingbirds feeding daily at our feeders just a few miles NE of Taberville in St. Clair County.” I think maybe it is the kind of flowers. She has purslain in her four pots on the

Kimball has several pots of beautiful blooming flowers on the picnic table on our south deck. One or more hummingbirds visit the flowers several times a day, usually one at a time. Does anybody still have hummingbirds? Kimball looked on the internet. It said they arrive in April and May and start leaving in mid-August.

Our condolences to the family of Jesse Watts. Nice man. Nice family. Adrian and her two boys left for home Friday morning to spend the night in Little Rock then finish the trip to St. Francisville (30 miles north of New Orleans) Saturday. Cain had to work and didn’t accompany them. He’s allergic to cats

I’m alone in the office with no adult supervision and it’s time for my weekly chat with you. Let’s be sure to pick a spot in the shade so we don’t cook our buns. The fishing reports were kinda skimpy because nobody could take the heat. Hope it cools down before the Picnic. Exactly two

I was cruising through Virginia Ryan Strain’s “Peek at the Past” in our Centennial issue and the first item I found was her article about the origins of the Rock Wall which she said was built twice to keep Main Street from washing into the Park. When I was a kid, when we drove through

While going through the some 3,000 emails that hit my inbox last week, I found a few gems to share with you. -Facebook post from Charlotte Ann Covert Arnold: Murder is illegal. Attempting murder is illegal. A felon owning a gun is illegal. Shooting people indiscriminately is illegal. Using firearms in a criminal manner is

I heard part this a couple of times on TV on Memorial Day. I wasn’t quick enough to jot it down, but Gwen found it on the internet for me. Have you ever been in a cemetery and saw coins on headstones? A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier’s family know that

I had to have help getting the fishing report into a format my computer could read. Actually, I had three typos in the entire report and my computer wouldn’t let me correct them. So what did I do? Kimball had the cell phone number of the guy, Eliott Carpenter, who found the program for me