A busy season has begun

Day 39, "Every picture has a story"

This, as one can see, is the Naples paper but I am pretending it is the St. Paul Pioneer Press!  AND the season has begun for HUGE papers.  Much of the paper today is adds for Black Friday and soon, if not already, each day will be filled with adds for Christmas.  The Sunday paper in St. Paul for the 6-8 weeks leading up to Christmas was HUGE to say the least.  There was a man who delivered papers who did some strange things.  We called him Scubby-Do and he was interesting to say the least.  We delivered about 200 papers much of the time and he delivered maybe 125 papers.  There were times that he would be bringing some papers to his vehicle as we drove up.  As we left after inserting 200 papers and bringing them to the car he would still be working.  Granted we were 2 and he was alone BUT he was a different kind of guy!  There was at least one Sunday that he brought a scale and weighted every 5 papers to be sure all the ads were there!  He could be leaving when we arrived and then about the time we were finished delivering papers we may see him with his wagon going down the street with papers.  He always brought 2 16 oz bottles of 7-up frozen and then he had to have his fan with the long cord as he inserted papers.  He would put the papers into the back of his SUV and when all the papers were in they were stacked like a work of art.  Scubby-DO was a different kind of guy and perhaps one of those characters that make the world interesting.  Lord help the world if there were many of ME.

Terry and I took in our first book lecture by Elene Newton from Canada.  The book, "Asymmetry" was NOT a book that I enjoyed and actually it did not make much sense.  However after Ms. Newton finished an hour and a half I now want to read it again!  We are signed up for the 6 book series and she just does a super super job.  The next book, The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, is in mid December.  As I listen to Ms. Newton I have come to the conclusion that I am NOT a very savvy reader.  AND it may be a bit too late for me to become one!

We have a blow up kayak that we put up for sale (sail-no) and someone is coming this morning to look at it.  It is for 2 people but it rides so high in the water you have to really work to make any speed at all.  The one time we took it out to the gulf we went with neighbor John who has a 1 person kayak.  He leisurely paddled way ahead of us as we both worked hard.  It was the kayak but it could have been the paddlers too I guess!   It has 5 compartments to blow up and over a couple of weeks one went flat.  We put it in the pool and could find NO leak so perhaps I just did not have the valve closed tight enough.  We will see if the people are interested.  We do want it to find a new home as we are not using it and it takes up some space.

Terry and I had lunch out after the book review yesterday.  We went to "THE DOCK" as it is enjoyable to sit water side BUT it was just too chilly to do that.  We ended up moving inside to a table and then I also went to the car and got a hooded jacket for Terry.  The temp was still a bit cool but the food was great.

Enough for a Sunday morning.