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N/Warren Town and County News
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Medicine for the Funny Bone
By Dorothy .o by |
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Norwalk Food Pantry ..................................
.................................. Avon Representative for
announcements Norwalk/Lakewood. For
Garage sales will not be products call Sandy
accepted by email. They Brenizer, 515-238-6718 or
must be paid for when the go to dynomaids@aol.com
ad is placed. Deadline for or www.youravon.com/
classified ad and payment Sandra Brenizer.
is noon Fridays. " ...............................
................................. Shop for Norwalk Warrior
Norwalk Food Pantry, Io- Spiritwear online at
cated at New Life Lutheran MyJJDesigns.com or call
Church, 4380 Wakonda 953-6306.
Dr., is open everyWednes- " .................................
day from 5 to 7 p.m. for Io- for rent
cal residents. Norwalk 2 BR brick 4 plex,
................................... hardwood floors, heat, wa-
employment ter, sewer, garbage paid.
CDL-A Company Teams: 515-314-1551 or515-221-
Start .55 cpm! $3,000 9300.
Sign-On Bonus! $2,000 of
it is PAID at Orientation! All
MILES PAID! 1-866-204-
8006.
Glen Morris Lawn Care, Fireplace Coveting Thy Neighbor's Sprinkler System
Chimney Servicing
Personalized Services,
Free Estimates; Fully In- Annual servicing of your
sured. Mowing, trimming, chimney system keeps
edging, fertilizing, cleanup, , your family safe and your
weed control, snow re- home in good repair. We
moval. 515-208-4398. offer inspections, cleaning,
mgmia@msn.com, repairs, product sales, re-
.................................. lining, tuck-pointing and
Seamstress can do alter- more. Call
ations, work with lycra fab- Climbing Boys
ric, sequins, beading and Chimney Cleaning
custom costumes. Call Tim Mineart
Lynne at 285-0604 or go to 689-9077
www.seamstressdeluxe ..................................
.com. Patava Concrete
.................................. Taking orders for tearouts,
Downs Pest Control And patios, replacement, new
Property Maintenance construction, driveways,
Spiders, ants, wasps, garage slabs. FREE ESTI-
roaches, bed bug treat- MATES. Call Matt Palen,
ments, termite work. We 210-1284 or Tim Patava,
also offer property mainte- 210-1285.
services
nance such as debris re ...................................
Bob Lochmiller moval, mold testing, snow garage sales
Computer Repair and lawn care, demo work 704 Lewis. Friday, Aug. 22,
Specializing in laptops.Will and roofing. 515-309-2089, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and Satur-
build computers to your www.downspestcontrol day, Aug.23,8a.m.-noon.
specs. Free estimates. .corn Lots of good stuff; pdced to
515-961-7513.
.................................. sell. Treadmill, large dog
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Bring family images to the Removals, trimming, scanner.
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good with children. $50.
Call 285-0604.
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1302 Main St. (Back Ga-
rage). Friday, Aug. 22, 8
a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturday,
Aug. 23, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Household items, clothes,
Precious Moments, golf
clubs, hunting and fishing
items, lots of misc.
You come out of the house in the dawn's early light
wearing only your jammies and sneakers. The birds are
just beginning to chirp, but you don't enjoy the sounds;
your neighbor's sprinkler system is chirping too.
You also have a sprinkler system--100 feet of hose
and a rotating, pulsating gizmo you bought at a garage
sale. Now, where is it? Oh yes. It's still on the last spot
you watered--where was that? WHEN was that?
It's still hard to see, so you wander across your
crunchy lawn peering into the dim light. (Are lawns
supposed to crunch?) Finally you trip over the hose, pick
yourself up and follow the hose to the sprinkler. On
those rare occasions you remember to water your lawn,
you wisely start on the driest spots. Unfortunately, the
green ones dry up while you're trying to revive the
brown ones. For you, lawn watering is endless triage.
Of course, it's still too dark to tell which spots are
near death, but realizing just how many of them there
are lately, you figure it won't be hard to hit one wher-
ever you plant the sprinkler. So you deride to start in
front of the house. At least your yard will look good
from the street--just not as good as old Mr. Sprinkler
System's.
You start dragging the hose across the yard, feeling
like a draft horse, with the sprinkler system tickingaway
in the background. You tell yourself your neighbor
couldn't possibly have the upper body strength you
have--or would have if you did this as often as you
should.
You and the hose make a wide swath on the lawn
until--what's that? You've run out of hose? How can
that be? Oh, see there. You'll have to backtrack around
that cottonwood tree. Whoops. Did you just take the
heads off those tiger lilies?
Finally you pick a spot in the front yard, carefully
place the sprinkler and run back to turn it on. And I'll
be darned! You've set it up perfectly--for watering the
doorstep and the driveway.
You wait. You watch. Then you make a dash for the
sprinkler at the precise moment it's spraying away from
neighbor does and your water bill is probably lower too.
Best of all, your dog prefers his lawn too.
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.................................. you. At least it was spraying aw y from you when you
417 Valencia Ct. (west on started running.
North Ave., left onto Sy- You pick it up; wrestle it back an' lj orth in an attempt
camore to end and left and to get more water on the lawn and Ies~bn the sidewalk-- ~,,
another left at end of cul- and on you. From a distance, it lool e you're danc- ,
de-sac). Friday, Aug. 22, 9 ing with a wet wild cat, but finally seem to have it i
a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday, lined up. And look at that--the BAli( of your pajamas
Aug. 23, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Lots is still dry--mostly. :.
of clothing, TV stands, bar At that moment, your neighbo~6pens his front doo~
\stools, chairs, misc. He sees you and hollers, "Nice PJs?,; ou curse him un-
der your breath, head for the door- az d pray for rain.
" i828 Swan Circle. Friday, And you ask yourself, "Why?" Why does: a green lawn
ug. 22, 5-7 p.m. and Sat- -matter anyway? Why do we squander pre ous mois-
- rday Aug. 23, 7-11 a.m. ture on such a vain, wasteful luxury?" Then yok let out
dqn't want to miss this a little yelp as the sprinlder squanders precious mois-
one!! I 0 ts of stuff for every- ture down your backside.
one. NOTHING is marked- You go into the house to take a shower, which seems
you m ge the price. ALL redundant. And standing there under the warm spray,
PROCEEDS go to Hope you wonder why you ever chose to live next door to a
Minist[ies. guy with a lawn that looks like a golf course. Look on
.... :---: ......................... the bright side. You could never fully appreciate how
much property you own if you never had to haul a hose
across it. Plus you don't have to mow as often as your