Thursday, January 4, 2024

RANDOM THOUGHTS - January 4, 2024

 RANDOM THOUGHTS - January 4, 2024

I ate coconut cream pie this noon at the Sons of Norway … another traffic death who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt … Garrison Keillor told the story about all his friends were dying off and now he’s walking around with a joke in his head with no one to tell it to … I’m rereading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. What a game changer she was … When constructing the railroad track towards Sheldon, a steam engine ran off the end of the track, tipped over, and scalded the engineer to death … 

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