When to vacuum the car?
How do you know when it is time to vacuum the interior of the car? Is it when there is at least 1 inch or 2 inches of dirt and gravel on the floor?
With the summer-like weather this past Saturday, I couldn't resist getting after the vehicles, which hadn't had the interior cleaned since about November.
There is something about a clean car that feels really good. In fact they even drive better.
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Can't go through March without writing about the Kansas wind. One blustery day I was driving to Valley Center and thought the wheels must really be out of line because the car wanted to drift to the left as I headed south. Then, as I came back home, the car wanted to drift the other way. Then it dawned on me that it was the 30 to 40 mph winds from the west that were causing the problem.
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Since I have been living with a left-hander all of my life, one has to take certain things into account. Anything that has a twist tie on it will be twisted the wrong way-which of course is the wrong way when I do it, too.
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One of the neat features of Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 is that it will read a document to you if you like. Just for fun I asked it to read the NCAA tournament bracket to me. It started out: "One...sixteen...eight...nine...five...twelve...." By then I couldn't stand it anymore and told it to quit. But it will read text to you if you don't mind a little monotone.
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I'm really rooting for Marion to build their movie theaters, which they have been working on really hard for some time now.
I remember going to Marion as a kid to watch the "Ten Commandments" starring Charlton Heston. It must have been in the late 1950s.
I've been trying to place in my mind where it was located, and thought it must have been on the south side of the street about in the middle of the downtown area.
Then the other day, when I was at the courthouse, I started asking where it was and what it was called. It was Faye Makovec and Roger Hannaford who set me straight. Faye actually worked in the theater and thought she might even have been there when I went. They both said it was called the Kaw Theater and was right next to the Schoneman Shoe Store, which is the area where Central National Bank and Marion Pharmacy are located.
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Did you know that the more arch a basketball shot has the better chance it has of going in? When it comes down from directly overhead the basket is completely round. From a lesser angle the shape of the goal becomes more oblong.
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We were walking by the Et Cetera Shop the other night when Nancy spotted a pink purse in the window that looked just like the one she had when she was a senior in high school. It appeared to be in pristine condition, too.
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According to the WeKan newsletter, many Kansas towns have designated themselves as the capital of something. For example, Liberal is the pancake capital, McPherson is the light capital, Russell Springs is the cow chip capital.
Surely we can be the capital of something. Maybe the smoked sausage capital or the trailer manufacturing capital.
