December 14, 2007 - Friday

12/14/07 FRIDAY
Todays Gazette is being brought to you by Elmer and Josephine
Sondeland.
It was 47 years ago last fall that Elmer taught me how to operate the
city's motor grader. Josephine was one of the kindest gentlest ladies I
have ever known.
----------------------
The current temperature is -6 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 34/-10
Normal H/L temp for this date is 20/3
The forecast for the next several days is close to normal temperatures.
Normally we don't normal temps this time of year.
===========================
"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
===========================
L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
----------------------
Today is a relatively slow news day. The sand ranchers of the world
have allowed their local representatives to drop the cost of filling our
snowblowers once again this week. A quart is presently going for a tad
over 72 cents.
-----------------------
According to Principal Lawrence Panek, as reported by the WCR 50 years
ago column. James Loos, a senior at the Grafton High School, was named a
semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition.
Speaking of the WCR. Wouldn't this be a super time to send your loved
ones a subscription to the Walsh County Record?
------------------------
The extent of residential decorations around town range from almost
nothing to presentations that could only be described as wonderful and
very significant.
Homes like Shane & Margaret Kaste at 539 Western Ave. with three
stories of lights, numerous wreaths, a giant evergreen and much of the
yard covered with decorations and lights.
Wally & Ione DeSautel's home at 1023 Kittson is extensively decorated,
including a beautiful large evergreen all of which are displayed in the
same color "soft gold" lights.
Tim & Jan DeSautel have also entered the gratifying world of extensive
holiday season decorating. Their home south of St. Johns church on the
south end of Western Ave is another Grafton home worth driving to see.
Although I have only identified three of the many wonderful displays
of holiday season decorations throughout the Grafton community. There is
one other home that really caught my attention in just the past few
days. A display that could best be described as unusual, unique, and,
some might even regard as "really cool".
I'm speaking of the home at 243 Kittson Avenue. The residence that Ray
& June Capouch once called home. Although the house presently appears
empty, and, the Country Realty "house for sale" sign out front seems to
indicate that the house actually is on the market.
Anyway. It seems someone has developed a method by which they can get
water to literally pour out of the house siding and freeze as it runs
down the walls creating the most unusual icicle formations. The
spectacular formations appear down the south side of the house. In some
spots the water even "seems" as though it is coming right through the
window sills.
Now that is true imaginative ingenuity. It also leaves one with the
impression that
the last occupant may well be the last occupant. Or so it seems to me.
-----------------------
OPRAH'S in the NEWS again.
Gosh, I sure hope Oprah is better at picking people to run "our"
country, than see is at picking folks to run her schools.
-----------------------
Earlier I mentioned Elmer and Josephine Sondeland. I forgot to mention
that tomorrow, December, 15 their youngest son Lewis will be celebrating
the anniversary of his birth. Some of us can still remember well Lewis'
exquisitely maintained Ducktail hairdo's of the late fifties. HAPPY
BIRTHDAY - Lewie
from your life long friends, Pat & Gary
-----------------------
==== It's that time of year again. ====
The time for KrumKaKa, Lefse and Lutefisk. I could eat a truck load
of Lefse. smothered with butter, sweetened with American Crystal Sugar,
rolled tight and devoured with a glass of ice cold milk. Then a
cup of coffee with KrumKaKa for desert. Yah, you betcha.
Those who are looking for the best tasting Lutefisk around. I
understand that Grafton's Country Smokehouse handles the exact same
Lutefisk that is served at the Park River Bible Camps annual fall
festival.
============================
GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
============================
It may just be my imagination. However, it seems like more and more
people, are writing less and less.


Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.