Most of the corn is out with the beans. A lot of it gets made into ethanol or soy diesel.  Only squirrels eat that kind of corn.  It doesn't take food from people. Some of the guys are out ripping yet, so they aren't ready just to come around, read the paper, drink coffee, and shoot dice.  The ones with hog setups are on their own schedule.  We'd rather they had a bath first, but then we don't usually have to tell them.  They claim it's the smell of money. Still some of the guys do come in especially if they broke down.  Sometimes we have a school night with one of the games, but they're mostly fund raisers.  Bake sales and burger nights don't pay enough. The band kept going for years on candy bars.Some of the towns kept the school open with the muni liquor store.  But, sad to say the business is bad even in them.  Some of the liquor stores went broke.  Hard to believe, huh?

We've got Halloween black and yellow crepe paper up.  The paper old Halloween jack o lanterns are out.  It's getting cold and spooky.  The Jay Cees or really maybe a Jay Cee or two are turning the Legion basement into a haunted house.  Somebody put the haunted house recording in the Coop answering machine.  Talk about surprise.

Jenn isn't a bit good!  But life goes on somehow, even though it isn't the same around here. We're afraid she might not come back.  But, she wants us to keep going.  She says keep the coffee on and the grill hot.

Edna