Sunday June 28th, 09

Hot! 

That is how the weather has been in Minneapolis over the last couple of weeks.

Today is "Gay Rights Day" it is sunny with a nice breeze for the annual parade down Hennepin Avenue. These folks also have a large celebration at Loring Park, at the edge of downtown. 

Minneapolis is famous for its park system and now with the newly completed Grand Rounds around the lakes for bikers, joggers and hikers, we Minneapolitans are becoming famous for our outdoor activities.

The tomatos are doing just great. My only task is keeping the water tanks filled during these hot days and trimming the suckers so more tomatos will appear. We do have quite a few small green ones appearing and are checking the progress each day.  

Doris has been busy with one of her favorite summertime civic activities. She is a whiz at selling "Auquatenial Skipper Pins" for the Minneapolis Great Get Together each July. The sale of these pins, with there flashing lights helps to fund 10 days of outdoor summer days each July. She loves to sell them and over the years has developed many customers who wait for her to call on them. She always outsells every one else who sells these pins and helps to raise the money that the celebration depends on.  Don't get to close to Doris at this time of the year, you too might be wearing one of these flashing pins. This year of course she is accomplishing this task with her right arm in a sling and pushing her Cadillac walker all over the area. I don't need to tell you that she is doing well.

With the wedding over last week, Jane is breathing a bit easier. This was her first daughters first wedding and she gave it about 200 per-cent. She is now getting back to normal. 

Business remains steady at Jane's Eide Saw and Tool Company. She does a great job, especially in these times of economic uncertainty. 

I have not been very busy in my shop as of late. This is mostly due to hot weather, a thickness planer breakdown and the frustation of the inability to connect to the internet. Some of us were born in the wrong generation to become adept at these machines that seem to be taking over our lives and causing financial problems with the newspaper industy. It seem as if you don't have an e-mail address folks wonder about you. I sometimes would like to just shut it down and walk away, however it seems like a monster has been created and you cant quit. 

I enjoy communicating with everyone and a computer does solve many problems that I would have if If if if and it goes on and on and on.

Michael Jackson's untimely death is an example of how e-mails have taken over our past communication avenues. Again Doris and I are from the wrong era to have enjoyed this popular entertainer. 

Two silkworms had a race. They ended up in a tie!

Little Suzy goes home from school and tells her Mom that the boys keep asking her to do cartwheels because she is good at them.

Mom said you should say NO. They only want to look at your panties.

Suzy said, I know they do, thats why I hide them in my back pack.

Jim and Doris