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Wild Card/Sunday — 4/19/09

To sum up my Saturday: I spent a coupla hours rifling through direct-mail offers for better service at lower prices for home phones, cable TV and Internet access -- and then dealing with sales reps on the telephone to save up to $65 per month. Time-Warner got the pink slip. I swept wood chips from everything within 20 feet of my winter wood pile, which is now down to 8 rounds, in preparation for seal-coating the patio this afternoon. Both my pro baseball teams -- San Francisco and Seattle -- lost 2-0, spoiling good efforts by pitchers who are paid too much to pity. My wife and I enjoyed pre-tourist-season City Park with 3 other couples late in the afternoon before the cold drove us home. I prepared 15 questions on John 20:19-29 for the adult Sunday School class I will lead in the morning. I capped things off by reading a coupla poems by Karl Shapiro, including one that recalled what garage sales were like years ago before they became popular. You can tell us what you did. Or use this Wild Card to start your own thread. Or just go out and have a nice day in the sun ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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