February 26, 2006
Dear Readers,
There's nothing like keeping on top of things! I
looked at this web page this morning and realized I had not updated it in,
well, lets just say it's been a while. What can I say? After
writing all day for a living, I find it difficult to write anything else.
That's no excuse for not keeping you up to date, but that's my story, and
I'm sticking to it.
It's almost spring, and we've had maybe two weeks of
winter here in Central Oklahoma. And they weren't consecutive.
My office is upstairs in our home, and as many of you with two-story
houses know, all the heat from the first floor shoots funnels right up the
stairs. I bet I used the air conditioner in January -- I kid you not
-- nearly as often as the furnace. But I'm not complaining!
Well, except maybe about the electric bill. Ugh.
I haven't made an trips lately, except for the RWA
National conference, which was in Reno, NV, in July of 2005. The
best part about that was that my brother and his family drove over from
California to see me while I was there. And I've been down to
Ardmore, in the southern part of the state, and to Ada and Blanchard, both
in the central part, to see family.
Years ago I started a list of interesting or noteworthy
things I've seen. I thought of that list the other day and looked
for it, but couldn't find it anywhere. I'm going to have to start a
new one, because I simply have to put this in writing: I have seen a
squirrel yawn. It was the most adorable thing! And I've seen a
duck with a Mohawk. Go figure. I know certain breeds of ducks
have a little topnot like that, but this is the first one I've seen, and
she has left her home (it was down the street) and moved onto our pond
with our duck.
I'm learning little-kid jokes to tell the four-year-old
who visits his great-grand-parents next door to me every day. He
always remembers the punch line, but usually not the rest of the joke.
But he did come up with a good one recently:
"What did one casket say to the other casket?"
"I don't know."
"He said, Is that you coffin?"
Now, how can I possibly top that?
Yours,
Janis |
