By the
Trout Lake Newswriters
Pat Arnold, 395-2233
Shirley Keran, 395-2559
Sandi Thygesen, 395-2318
Terry Scott, 395-2760
Last week was a typical spring week for us, wasn't it? Sun, snow, cloudy, rain, sun, snow... And it looks like this week is going to be the same. The daffodils and crocus are popping up like crazy. Another month and all kinds of flowers will be up and buds will popping on the trees. So, hurry and finish your spring cleaning and winter projects, because with the flowers will be the weeds. And I know you'll be wanting to be pulling and planting.
Were any of you watching "Jeopardy!" when the answer was (paraphrased), "The product developed by (Trout Lake's own) Seth Tibbot for vegetarians and vegans to eat in place of turkey on Thanksgiving." The question was, "what is tofurkey?" Isn't that great? Congratulations on being famous, Seth.
Here's a Trout Lake question for you. What big he-man went deep sea fishing last weekend and spent most of the trip, along with most of his buddies, hanging over the side of the boat barfing? In his and their defense, the wind was blowing like crazy and the ocean was about as choppy as it could get short of a hurricane. If you know the answer, be gentle with him, because his wife isn't being real sympathetic!
Darlene Pressler and I have started walking most every day and we'd like to invite anyone who wants to join us to do so. So far, we start at Darlene's at 9:00 a.m. and walk a loop: Jennings to Park to Dean to Wood to Jennings. The loop is 1.5 to 2 miles. We've talked about trying other routes later, like the Lava/Valley Roads loop and, maybe the Little Mountain/Old Creamery/Sunnyside/Mt. Adams Roads loop when we're really in shape. We take our well behaved dogs, too. Martha Hylton and Lucy and Fletch join us on weekends and Monica Garrett goes when she's in town. (That sounds like Martha and Monica are our well behaved dogs, but that's NOT what I meant!) So just show up. For the next couple of weeks, we're going to try walking at 8:00, because we both have things to do. Let's make this a town thing and get in shape! You can even bring husbands, if you'd like.
I'd like to thank Yellow Thunder Woman for all of her work putting together the great classes for our local adult education courses. It was perfect having them in town. And safer than driving to Hood River. My favorite was a free lecture by Cheryl Mack. It was about this area. Did you know that thousands of years ago, this area was much warmer and there were oak trees instead of fir. Cheryl said it was more like the plains instead of forests. After that, about five thousand years ago, there was a volcanic eruption that must have lasted for years based on the layers of the earth in the area. She told us about the tools that have been found in different layers that tell us what kinds of people inhabited the area. Now, this lecture was about 1 1/2 to 2 months ago, so I may have inadvertently twisted some facts. I think we'd better ask Cheryl to give another lecture, rather than depending on me. It was really super.
Watch out for a woman with a camera this summer. I'm going to be around town taking pictures of gardens. Maybe we can even talk the paper into publishing some of them. If you're not watching, I may have to try one of your tomatoes!
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