The Slice: The Slice: Not too late to launch comeback

There are 200 days left in this year.

That’s plenty of time to do what needs to be done.

Good luck.

“This is not how you do it: “Many years ago, when my husband was working on the road, I decided to paint the bathroom,” wrote Linda Maxwell. “Not wanting to drive 30 miles or so to town, I took a five-gallon bucket to his work area and poured all the partially empty paint cans into it – indoor, outdoor, marine, engine, et cetera.”

One problem. This coral-colored concoction did not stick. “It simply ran off the walls as I tried to roll it on.”

The mess required Maxwell’s husband to make a trip to town and spend several hours working in the bathroom after he returned.

“The good news is that I’m still not allowed to touch a paint brush,” she says.

“Lost and found: Kent Roberts came upon a camera in the Spokane Valley Barnes & Noble and all the traditional approaches to finding the owner have failed.

“There are over a year’s worth of pictures on the memory card and I’m sure someone would be missing those memories,” he wrote.

He e-mailed me a few of the snapshots. They show a variety of family scenes. Because some of the pictures suggest a vacation trip through the West, it might be that the people in question do not live around here.

But if the photo in today’s Slice makes you think you might know the identity of the camera’s owner, let me hear from you.

“Slice answer: Amber Haidari said she has experienced cart confusion in a store – just the other day, in fact.

She was checking out something on one of the shelves. Then she went back to her cart and resumed pushing it. Only it wasn’t hers.

After a moment, a young couple approached and asked if they might have accidentally switched carts with her. Haidari realized instantly that they were right. And she was delighted to see that her wallet was still in her cart.

“Slice answer: Jessica Levy from Coeur d’Alene sent me an e-mail Tuesday night.

“I had to laugh this morning when you asked if anyone used their sprinkler system after a rain because of their shade canopy,” she wrote. “I don’t have a sprinkler system. But yesterday afternoon, after it had rained sheets for about two hours at my house, I wondered if my neighbors thought I was crazy as I dashed outside when the clouds broke to water all my shrubs, trees, and flowers.

“We have so many trees overhead that most of our yard gets almost no accumulated water in even the heaviest of rains.”

“Today’s Slice questions: Which state has the best flag? The worst?