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Show Chatter Box i Dear Suzy, Well, while we are all busy slaving slav-ing our life's blood away, wearing our fingers to the bone with hard work, sweating, or I guess I should say perspiring and be more ladylike, lady-like, gallons and gallons, worried, and the like, Fuzz, the boss, Wanda Wan-da and the kids go tripping of to Idaho to bask in the gentle breezes, breez-es, fish in the sparkline clear wat- mJmrwuiig liecll Will- ers, and take life easy. It just isn't nght. Not that I begrudge Fuzz a vacation, but it seems to me that his vacations are pretty regular and maybe he should work a little between vacations. As far as I can see he just gets back from one vacation va-cation trip when he starts planning another. Of course, there is some cheering note in Fuzz's report on the vacation. vaca-tion. He says that Idaho is a badly overrated state as a place to fish and as scenic beauty. He says the prettiest vista he saw on the whole trip was looking south west from the airport at Delta, after having been gone a week. He says that everyone should take a long vacation vaca-tion and then they will realize what a fine place West Millard is and appreciate it more. Long would be the lament and loud the wails in Utah if we had the kind of roads they have in Idaho, at least they call them roads, but then with Fuzz making a statement like that we know he is prejudiced. Because if the Idaho roads are any worse than ours, they had better go back farther than the horse and buggy days, and get some oxen in the Gem state. He wants to re-write the touring guide of Idaho, use less superlat-vies, superlat-vies, and tell the truth about what they class as scenery. He reluctantly reluc-tantly reveals that Utah could give Idaho Zion's, Bryce and the Grand Canyon, then beat them twenty ways when it comes to pretty country. The Shosone Falls near Twin Falls, is an absolute must on the touring guide as a place to see, and Fuzz says when they got there they were using the whole stream to generate power and make Bohemian Bo-hemian Club beer, and that the falls were as dry as the Congressional Congres-sional Record. From Hailey to Chal-lis'was Chal-lis'was pretty, and the Stanley Basin Ba-sin was a right smart view, says Fuzz. But he wants Utah vistas and lots of them. Here in Utah we think we have a corner on the intermountain deserts, des-erts, but he says Idaho is a mighty close second, and pushing Utah hard for top honors. I know, though, that Fuzz is just mad at the high price of meat. He went to catch some fish and thus save a pretty penny in the deal, and says that his 19 fish cost him $5.40 each. A person would be forced forc-ed to eat bones, fins, and all, when food runs that high, and maybe a little halibut at some counter would be a far better buy, even at its inflated price. With all these new fangled gadgets gad-gets and products coming on the market there should be some easy way to determine what one is looking look-ing at or using. Whether it is for internal or external use, something to wear, build with, put in the car for engine lubrication, or what one should wash with. It just seems that we are always having to learn more and more every day or we are going to run into a cropper. Take the Old Man Beckwith the other morning. He got up as usual and poured himself out what he thought was a new breakfast cereal cer-eal that was guaranteed to cure everything from ingrown toenails to falling hair. His large bowl of supposedly cereal had a different look than what he had been accustomed ac-customed to so he stopped, looked and listened. The more he studied the stuff, the more less likely it looked as a cereal. Finally he got out another package pack-age of cereal that he knew and went to work on that, leaving the first cereal as was, only that the first bunch was swelling badly. Well it finally came out that what he had designs on eating the first time was some new fangled soap called Tide, that he recently brought into the house. It might make a good cereal at that, and maybe the makers have missed a bet on the deal. They could advertise adver-tise a soap that cleans both inside and outside, vitamin fortified, and in eight delicious flavors which would give them several more flavors than Jello. Everybody is watching the slow growth of the Ashby building and wondering just when it will be completed. They can't figure what is wrong with Orran as it isn't like him, but Carl comes out with the reason. He says Orran has such a big seed crop that he goes out there every day and positively drools over the prospects. Then he has to come back to town and get some ice tea or whatever other beverage Orran is taking these days to regain the lost drool. Then he goes back out again to look at the crop. He has traveled 21,000 miles since the seed went into the burr, spent at least 18 hours of each day at the farm, and has forgotten for-gotten that he is building a new home for a tractor and some leather leath-er belting. Some guys have all the luck, Toots. |