Looncation Land

Always looking for an angle, the city tourist board have launched a 2009 summer season motto. It's Looncation. Can you have a one word motto? Edna thinks I ask too many questions, but sometimes she thinks they're good questions. A Looncation here? Loon Center only has a motel and a half. The half is that Horstheld the veterinarian has a couple parked campers he lets out. You have to use the bathrooms in the park so it's a little inconvenient but the Loon Inn on the far side of the lake is nice enough. We have had more visitors this year, still more people taking off local than to far away--like South Dakota or Iowa. Fishing's good and we have some great softball fields.

Earl and little Mrs. Kelsy got those tomatoes planted and they're doing well with all the rain we've had. In fact, I'd thought Mrs. Kelsey was retired but she opened a new business. She's a tomato plant tender. She goes all over town checking plants for people after she's put them in. Sees if they need spray or cages though she likes to keep them free-range she says. She'll even harvest them for you. I didn't know before that Mrs. Kelsey had taught botany classes somewheres. Maybe it was at the community college greenhouse. She's really quite devoted to them. Earl had asked her if she'd consider branching out to cabbage, lettuce, or carrots, but Mrs. Kelsey says, "No way. It's tomatoes or nothing." You'd think she'd want a back up crop. And now Edna has it in her head that we're going to be putting up our own tomato sauce and ketchup this fall. Well, it's always good to expand your horizons. I keep reading that in The Gazette.

So, plan to spend your Looncation with us, why don't you.
Faithfully,
Jenn