Gee, what a fun Fathers' Day for Coolbreeze-bummer. My hubby just got home a few minutes ago, changed into cutoff jeans and put a bunch of dirty clothes from his trip into the hamper in the utility room-good thing I haven't washed anything yet today but a load of sheets and towels.
Our local papers only carry local news, too-I love it! Like you, if I want anything else, I go to FNC, or the city paper online. In the city, most of the community centers are run by the city government with everyones' tax dollars, and they cater to welfare recipients, not the middle class. It is great to have a community center operated on HOA fees, annual events and donations, rather than by some government entity-the members of the community decide what programs/services are provided, not Big Brother.
Coolbreeze had a great Father's day yesterday - except I forgot to pull out the presents - oh well he gets a seond Father's when he gets home from work tomorrow.
There are a couple of things around here that appear to be joint private/public ventures and they seem to work very well.
I noticed at the thing we went to last weekend down at the community college the folks at the domestic abuse, teen pregnancy, and literacy booths spent a bunch of time with certain folks and quickly punched the cards and handed the goodies to other kids and sent them on their merry way. The total opposite was at booths like the Coast Guard, Game and Fish, and even the local electric cooperative.
Can you guess which booths my kid spent a lot of time at?????
But it was a public/private thing and every child that went to all 30 booths was given a brand new bicycle helmet at booth 30.
glad your hub made it home ok, bet you are happy to see him. xsboy and xshub are playing golf now, we will eat when they get here. the girls and i are hungry so i hope they hurry up! i got a new card with increased memory for my digicam for the vaca. and am hoping that i will be able to stitch on these flights. i will precut the thread, bc i am sure they would confiscate my scissors. i went into Jo-ann Fabrics and talked to the lady back in the sewing machine area, who just got back from a flight from Denmark, who had the same thought as me, how to stitch on a long flight. Somone needs to invent something to cut thread, that will make it past the airline security. it doesn't have to be a sharp pointed edge, just like the thing on the back of the zipper foot on a sewing machine that you push the thread through to cut it. i can picture in my mind what i mean, but unfortunately no such thing exists that i have seen.