Table with a (just barely) view

How to become a tourist destination

Maine island library wants your banned books

The tiny library on Matinicus Island 22 miles (35 kilometers) off the Maine coast is on a mission to fill its shelves with books that have fallen out of favor elsewhere.

Dispach from our Pacific Rim bureau re: Important Matters

Today is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day!? 

(Shelby Report) - There’s “Clean-Up Your Room Day” (May 10), “Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day” (April 18) and even “National Goof-Off Day” (March 22), but “National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day”? Yes, and it will be recognized March 24. While Nestle did not establish the holiday, the company is leading a national celebration in the name of Nestle Raisinets, which also happens to be celebrating its 85th anniversary this year.
 

PJ day is Tax Day so that's right up my alley and since my office is in my bedroom, that will be a cinch. However, I'm disappointed I wasn't notified earlier about the Goof-Off day. Can I goof off twice as much tomorrow to make up for it?
 

I better put it on my calendar for next year.

–Lynn C Dot

 

The maple in rain

COVID nostalgia now?

 An article by Katherine J. Wu published March 23 in The Atlantic [Apple News] refers to Omicron BA.1 (the reigning plague of the winter just past, not the Omicron currently ascending in Europe) as Omicron-classic.

Really.

Good times all around

Pandemic relief money spent on hotel, ballpark, ski slopes

The cash was desperately needed to save jobs, help those in distress, open schools and increase vaccinations.…

Shadowed

Are donuts always this expensive?

 

A sure sign of spring at the local hardware store

 

This house always looks like spring

Between here and there

Right on schedule…

…my fingerprints are back. It happens every spring, which today is the first day of (where I live, at last).

I don't know where they go but they do, about Thanksgiving time. Dry skin from the colder air, maybe, or maybe they just go south for the winter. Like geese. Whatever the reason, I can't open my computer with the fingerprint rec feature during the winter months. 

But today they're back. So I have nearly six months during which to forget my password. Again.