Another Try at "Ramblin's"

A daunting task on this 25th day of June 2008, my first time trying to use a laptop computer, and at the same time attempting to “bat out” a colyum more or less resembling my almost-weekly effort during 30-some years of operating your hometown newspaper. The keyboard facing yers truly scarcely resembles that of the 1952 Royal portable on which ye Rambler produced those earlier efforts. Yet, somehow or other, the whole process seemed much less complex on that hand-punched mechanism.

As I sit here on the living room couch facing the back deck on our house, there are three local folks who operate a painting business scraping loose paint off the floorboards. Looking out at that area brings back memories of many, many weekend afternoons when ye Rambler would sit in front of a card table on a folding chair and tap out the week’s stuff (sort of blog-like). Furthermore, another big difference in the atmosphere is the absence of one or more of the five young folks, ranging from five years old to 19. Their presence in our home provided much of the material for each colyum, and their absence since all have “flown the coop” leaves the writer with more limited subject matter, to say the least.

Be that as it may be, we hope to continue this 21st century blog process as time goes by, and we become more used to computer-driven typing. For now, yers truly will put a “30” on today’s effort — that means “The End” in journalistic slang!