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May 14th, 2016

Busy has been the word. Locally early Spring, at times summer like weather, second photo job worked and finally done, and with the above weather back to weekend yard work means so much to do and not always enough time. May 14th, we drive to Spokane to see a show. A 'bucket list' thing one could say for me was my hope to at some point to attend and see a live performance of "A Prairie Home Companion" with the host Garrison Keillor. Then last October on our local PBS radio station it was announced that the current season of the show was going to be Keillor's last, he is in his 70s after all, and has been running the show since the 1970s. And to top that news off there would be one last live performance with him as the host in Spokane, Washington, only 2 hours away. I have listened to his Saturday evening show off and on since first discovering the show in the early 1990s while going through the dial on my motorcycle's AM / FM radio while on a trip, and had o

Last post was getting long but there was a little more to tell!

So I guess you could say this is part 2 from the last post weeks ago now. All because I was going to add to this post then didn't and forgot to go ahead and post it! Then things got really busy in our little department so I wasn't able to continue the story until now, almost June! A really interesting, but somewhat long day was March 30th. Myself and another employee, the Juvenile Probation Officer, were set up to attend a day long class just over the Idaho state line and in Newman Lake, Washington.  I drove my Solstice and the other person her own car since she lives about a half hour closer than we do if going South. It meant getting up really early , like 5 am for me, to be on the way early enough to get there before the 8:00 am start time. GPS estimated about an hour and a half to make the right at 90 mile drive and while it was just a bit longer than that due to some traffic, I still got there about 15 minutes early. The heading of the class flier was "Preven