Thursday June 26, 2025 Will Marge Simpson Be Interred In Palmville?

 

News Alert! "My blog posts catch up to me every week! Double-ditto this week. If you read last week's post, you know they're not ready to be published because something else has displaced an original idea. Or if I'm too tired to finish, I'll go to bed, wake up before 5 am, and finish the post; rereading it several times to make sure it is what I want. By the time it publishes, I'm usually content enough to call it 'good.' You won't know the difference, maybe.

 

"This evening I was tired after finally doing some long over-due projects (Yes, similar to finishing painting the house, but different.) For one thing, I vacuumed the basement floor, including the bathroom, laundry area and the old RAVEN office. Another thing I accomplished, (after several days of complaint by the wife), I finally capped off a flower planter by the front door that some kind of small animal unbeknownst to us had been trampling its mid-section with wild abandon. Energized with positive action, I launched headlong into another activity that involved riding the ATV to 'check the mail,' a half-mile away, and back. 

 

"Then, after gathering three out of four fully-charged 20v batteries for my weed trimmer and placing them in various pants pockets I began trimming around all the trees in the yard, along all sides of the propane tank; around the octagonal-sided tent, and the grown-over pile of dirt north of the house surprisingly, tiring me. In addition, I had to eat a sandwich the wife made for me (no small feat). Believe you me, all that supreme effort warranted two beers, a well-deserved one-hour nap; and two long-winded hours-long conversations with a couple of Iowa friends.

Then I got the idea to include the article below, just to cap things off as it ties into the title somewhat...

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-simsons-marge-simpson-dies-1.7570422

Goodnight!