Go Directly to Jail

Today our town celebrated the annual Back to the Fifties Festival, which is mostly an antique car show with street vendors and local groups serving food. There were Beatles and Elvis tribute bands plus local performers. Overall a lot of fun.
An interesting side note was that the old jail was having an open house. It's been on the market for quite a while now. Still fascinating to walk through. You could almost hear Andy, Barney and Opie.
If anyone has half a million dollars and the desire to fix up a great community icon, have we got a deal for you. (note: my only interest is local history preservation, I make no money from this endorsement.)
If you're looking for ideas, my daughter would turn it into a vet clinic, but I think it would make a great bed and breakfast or restaurant.

Early Alert

Do your fire alarms work? Last night the battery on one of ours died. We have three smoke detectors, one for each floor, and of course all the ceilings are too high to reach on a chair. So at 4 AM when one of them starts "chirping" it's a hassle to change the battery. I didn't even try to find the ladder. Instead I piled a chair on top of a stool and performed my own rendition of a Chinese balancing act. I'm sure it would have been hilarious to watch, if only anybody had been up to watch.

Holes

A guy in a red pickup truck stopped by our house today and asked if we would be willing to sell some of our black eyed susans, right from the yard! Well, not being one to pass up an easy buck, I said sure. He took away a couple clumps and I had an extra ten bucks in my pocket. Who would have thought that native plants would be so desirable? Guess that's what happens when the nurseries no longer sell the better stock.