Long Gone

FORGOTTEN TIMES

Forgotten Folks

never again?

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.. A Covid-19 malaise has overtaken our front line work force. Bless their hearts, heavy is their heart as they struggle to be pleasant to the maskless hoards spitting through the grocery stores and trinket shops and other venues in town.

Exchange Of Spit Circle

.. It seems that vacationing visitors are also taking a break from safe public situations. Again, we have no 'official' numbers but -- the pubs have cumulatively lost 12 workers. The two grocery stores have lost a combined 8 workers. Gossip adds another 9 around town to the total.

.. In a village as small as ours and, with a captive workforce these are significant numbers. Everyone is pitching in with long hours and multiple jobs. The hoards continue as if they and we are exempt from safe protocols: NOT TRUE!

.. Yellowstone National Park has posted safety protocols at major attractions and included lists of safe behaviors in the newspaper provided each visitor as they enter the park. Visitors seem unable to read as they throw away the unread papers and charge past the new signage. We do wonder at it all.

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The Little Carrot Scores Again

.. Our garden has a fine crop of weeds among the veggies - oh well. The second batch of strawberries is doing well. The cherries are just turning bright scarlet and beginning to be edible. All the rhubarb plants are in their third cutting and the most prolific that we've seen in a few years. The damn foxes have run amok in the asparagus bed and broken the fragile ferns. We really do need to steal some time for garden maintenance.

.. Need to steal some time for catching too. A few neighbors traveled to Ice Box Canyon. It's a long journey. It's hard to find parking places. It's straight down. It's worse coming up. Few folks fish there. Many fish were caught. Many stories originated. Steaks on the barbee - no pub crawl for us.

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