By The sun rises over the yellow house across the street. Waking to two days in a row of clear sky after our monsoon season has that Eagles song “No More Cloudy Days” running through my head. Hardly anyone’s out moving around in Emporia, not this early on a Sunday morning so I step out on …
Just Curious…
…my dear friends. What brings you to the Flyover People Daily News? Do you like the photos best, or the chatter? I don’t really have a plan here (that’s obvious). This isn’t specifically a writing blog, an Emporia blog, a travel blog, or a small towns blog. I just take pictures of whatever happens to …
miscellaneous
KAKE News has facts and video on the Greensburg tornado. Also video about damage near Macksville. I was stunned by the opening scene on the Macksville video which shows a bunch of stripped trees (not strip tease). The trees didn’t stand a chance against a 205 mph vacuum cleaner. Do you have Minnesota connections? Fond …
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 …
Lazy R
Sitting on my front porch in the sun, thank you Lord, and, still reading Haven Kimmel’s memoir, “She Got Up Off the Couch,” I remembered a moment from first grade. One day, the speech lady came to the classroom and called my name and and the names of maybe two or three other kids. What, …
Sporadic Blogging
Spring is a busy time here at Flyover People World Headquarters. We have projects and deadlines, assignments, obligations and, well, now that winter’s over (again), we might just be outside. So, from now until early- to mid-June, blogging may be sporadic. You may find three entries one day and then nothing for a couple days …
pieces of fiction
OK, so last night I was talking to my writing friend, Tracy (who, by the way, has just had a piece of fiction accepted for a magazine!) about writing and stuff. And, we talked about cats. Long ago, Tracy had a cat that disappeared. Two years later, TWO YEARS LATER, it walked in the house …
False Alarm
No, this is NOT our cat. The animal pictured above is/was Tiger’s friend. And when this cat jumps from the porch railing onto the porch floor, he makes the same thump sound that Tiger made. So, Dave named him False Alarm. Which is probably a step up from the other thing Dave calls him which …
the news tonight
Howdy, Internet Friends. Sent off next week’s column today. Between that and some other stuff that has kept me overwhelmed this week, I’ve not done much here besides plug in a photo every day. So – what’s going on? Right now, KU is playing Southern Illinois University. Yikes, and we’re behind, 30-27. Rut-row. And I …
Time for a change
Daylight Saving Time comes three weeks early this year. Don’t forget to move those clocks ahead an hour tonight, 3:00 is the new 2:00. My alarm clock is some sort of “smart” clock. But I don’t know if it pays attention to Acts of Congress. We’ll see what happens.
Tuesday
This picture may be a little fuzzy because the lens fogged up. Greenhouse No. 2 at Arnold’s was giggly hot and humid on Sunday when the outside world was cold. But, things have changed. Spring has come to the prairieland. Monday was glorious – no wind, sunshine, no wind, mid-60s, no wind. And I mention …