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Roads Traveled with Linda L. Osmundson
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Drive south on I-25 about seven hours from Lyons and you arrive in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “A City Different,” “Aspen’s sister,” “O’Keeffe Country,” the highest US capitol city at over 7200 feet, and Spanish for “holy faith.” Thirty-two years ago my husband and I visited the city for a company business conference. More recently, we traveled there to help our middle son and his family settle into a house. Santa Fe has definitely changed!
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What Grandma Ate... And Why
By Carol Marra
Frances crawled out an upper window of her family’s Iowa farmhouse and onto the tin roof above the front porch; she was toting a tray of thinly sliced apples from the orchard. She placed them carefully on the tin roof to dry in the sun -- the roof was hot enough to keep the flies away. These apples would be the stars of the dried apple pudding, with whipped cream from the dairy cows, which was a staple of celebratory family dinners.Spot on Seniors
Just A Little Ditty Can Make The Day Brighter
By Kathleen Spring
If a King of Comedy was crowned at the Lyons senior center, it would have to be Don Hunt. He brought jokes and songs to the seniors on many occasions over the years, but due to health concerns, he retired his repertoire in spring.
About Town, August 9, 2012
Another week gone by! Next week school starts on August 16. Where did the summer go? Many folks went far away on vacation; others stayed home playing and attending ballgames, taking their kids to swimming lessons, camp, swimming in the old swimmin’ hole in Meadow Park, kayaking, tubing, fishing, biking and just playing. Town activities consisted of lots of ball games, the OutdoorAsk the Handy Woman!
Answers to your home maintenance and repair questions
Can you believe it? A year has gone by. A whole year since Lora and Joseph at the Lyons Recorder agreed to let me blather on about what makes my world go ‘round: fixing things and playing with power tools! (Cue Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor sound byte. Actually no, don’t. That just sounds ridiculous.).
About Town, August 16, 2012
Another week gone by! School starts this Thursday, the Folks Festival Festival starts on Friday.
We hope the weather will stay cool. What a hot summer we have had, over 90 days of over 90 degrees! The hottest in 54 years! This global warming is bad for the universe! What can we do about the changing of the world!
Do You Need $1 Million To Retire?
By Doug Carey
It’s always an interesting experiment to ask people how much money (in today’s dollars) they think they will need to retire comfortably. I’ve found that a lot of folks like to throw out the nice, round figure of $1 million. It’s a reasonable guess, but usually it’s just that: a guess. I wanted to dig deeper and figure out just what it takes to retire comfortably at age 65.
