Rainy Days and Wednesdays
Scott Rochat wrote about rainy-day whiners in last night’s Gazette: The Raining Champ.
It’s raining this morning. Again. Just a medium rain. On saturated ground. The nearby Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers are full. Well, overfull. See pics on Tracy’s blog. There’s flooding in Lyon and Chase Counties.
One of the renters who lives in a house across the street left his car windows open last night.
Tomorrow maybe, or Friday, I get new glasses. This is scary. You know how sometimes you try clothes on in a store and they look all groovy and then when you get home and put them on, you wonder, what the heck was I thinking?
Well, that hardly ever happens to me because I seldom buy anything besides t-shirts and blue jeans, but anyway, it did happen to me the first time I ever, ever got glasses – in fourth grade. I picked out these lovely brown frames that looked great with the gold-colored shirt I was wearing. Or so I thought.
But anyway, it wasn’t just me picking out new frames on Monday. I had trained optician Jim Brady by my side, saying “no” to some, and “now that looks good” to others. He and I both liked two pair and we both liked one the best. So they ought to be OK, don’t you think? But still….
The unveiling of Alan Tollakson’s stone sculpture was supposed to occur on Feb. 20, Emporia’s 150th anniversary. But the weather was too bad at the time to mount the piece, so last week sometime, to little fanfare I imagine, the sculpture was unveiled. I missed the event, but stopped by the Lyon County Historical Museum (118 E. 6th) yesterday to snap some photos. The carvings at the top of the piece represent Emporia, past and present.
And…. today’s Savage Chickens: Groundhog Day
I’m glad Alan got the commission for the sesquicentennial sculpture. It will out-live him and document that Emporia was home to artists like Alan.
Little is know about Emporia’s professional whistler, a Miss Vickery, as an example.
I agree Roger. I wish people would hire local talent for arts projects. As local as they can anyway. I realize that once in a while there may be some project that requires someone with some expertise that no one locally has. BUt in general, hiring local is best, IMHO.
I know nothing about Miss Vickery, but would like to.
She was a professional whistler on the Chautauqua circuit. That is about all I know other than that she was related to the Randolph clan, the Populists that White was against.
Cheryl, your new glasses will be just fine. I know, I’ve been wearing glasses since the third grade. Makes me an expert !!
The glasses came in early – got them this morning. Yeah, I think they’ll be fine. They’re just a lot different from the old frames!
Oh, yeah, the pictures of the flood waters. Impressive. You can’t fight gravity and you sure can’t fight flood water. It goes where it wants to.
Alan’s work in fantastic! I made a point of driving by last weekend when I came over. It is very impressive. Now if the vandals will leave it alone we’ll be lucky.