Art at the Arena

Our town voted to improve the sports arena where the National Junior College Basketball tournament is held every March. I haven't seen the inside but it is greatly enlarged and  big new entrances on the south and west. The colorful circles seen here are also new. We are trying to figure out if they represent anything in particular. Maybe hula hoops; basketball hoops; halos; not sure.

Garden Phlox

Our pretty lavender stalks are coming up around the dead pampas grass that wasn't trimmed back this year. We'll see how that works out in the next few weeks. Will the grass green up?
Don't know.

Computer is Down

This was an eye opener yesterday. We went to place that has great hamburgers and the best fries (in our opinion) in town.  The voice from the speaker said their register was not working so we'd have to pay in cash. O.K.
I ordered two cheeseburgers and a medium order of fries. She asked me if I wanted cheese. Well, yes.
I repeated the order - that was two cheeseburgers and an order of medium fries.  The answer was is mustard and pickle all right?  Yes. No drink.
We drove around, paid cash $8.70.  Naturally we didn't look in the sack. At home there were no fries.
I called the restaurant and told her we had just placed an order there and I would like to know the price of two cheeseburgers. A lot of hems and haws. Finally she asked why. I told her we didn't get any fries. We could come back or they would send me a coupon. No. I just wanted to know if we had paid for fries or not. She asked if there was a receipt. Yes. Then I made the mistake of telling her the amount on the receipt.  $8.70.  Yes, that was right for cheeseburgers so we weren't charged.

Check the addition and what I assume is supposed to be the tax....$1.09? Our tax is about 9%.
If it were 10%, it would only be 80 cents!  I give up.

Poor clerks are so used to the computer/cash register doing the figuring. It was probably very frustrating doing the job and then some old lady calls in about it!

Civil War Cannons

These are two cannons near a statue of Abraham Lincoln and four figures representing the armed forces at the time of the Civil war.

It seems the city didn't realize that these were authentic! When they found out, they chained them down.

The Anniversary of the Blind Date

A blind date has been recorded by wood burning a slice of tree. Sixty-five years ago today . . .

Friend

This is Jo. We have been friends since before Pearl Harbor. She moved here from another town in Kansas. Her dad worked for Standard Oil. We were at a church camp in Sterling, Kansas, when this photo was taken.

The tower on the building in the background is gone, lost in a wind storm sometime after the 1940's.
She lives a long distance away but we keep in touch by phone. If I could just get her to use Skype on her daughter's iPad!

Chilly and Chili

After some days of eighty degrees in March, we are back to coolness.  It was thirty-three here this morning. Warmer today and tomorrow and then the forecast is for the mid forties for the week-end.

So the boss called for chili.  It is smelling good simmering now.