Lando Labour Day Update

Good Day!

I know I've been derelict in my duty to post here more often,
but things in Lando have been quite busy!

The Lando Labour Day Parade and festival was such a
huge success this year! I think we wrapped up the
summer of 2008 quite nicely!



Here are a few more photos from the Labour Day Parade and Festival...

Mrs. Mayor Stoner's Sister, Eunice

Ray Crouse and his boy, Randy

One of our local Shriner's from the
Ali Babba Temple of the Shrine

Peggy Cabot's Sheep

Shaka Zulu

Mr. T

Miss Teen Lando,
Sybilene Bradshaw
(Elverna's baby girl)

Lando Concert Orchestra

Gumby's Mom!

Dirk Crouse

Chief Wiggum and Rodney Remington
have some comfy seats for the parade!


After the parade, Mrs. Mayor Stoner told me she was going to
check out a few of the Labour Day Sales!
Mrs. Mayor Stoner

Here are just a few of the sale notices from around Lando...









This last one caught my eye, and one part in particular...



You see that? The more you buy, the more you save!

Well, let me tell you, the female of our species dont interpret that the same as the men folk!

I'm here to tell you that Mrs. Mayor Stoner took that message to heart!

The way she sees it is like this...

If an item normally costs $20, and it's on sale for, say, $10,
then the store will tell you that if you buy it, you are saving $10.
That may be true, but it fails to consider:

a) You may never have considered buying that item
2) It would NEVER have sold at $20
c) you dont NEED that item, and
.) it's still over-priced at $10!

Here's where it gets good!

When Mrs. Mayor Stoner comes across such an offer,
her mind immediately goes like this:

a) I need THAT.
2) It's on Sale!
c) I'm saving $10!
5) I just EARNED $10!

That's the biggie right there, number 5!!!

Even though we all know that if it had just been sitting on the
shelf for $10 she would have walked right on by, but, NO...,
since it's 'on sale', she HAS to have it!

AND she's making $10 on the deal!

So, in her mind, she now has an additional $10...
To buy something else!

And so it goes...ALL DAY LONG!

So, by the end of the day she's spent an entire month's salary
but she 'saved' ten times that much.

She's planning on using the 'extra' money to remodel our den
and get some new furniture for our veranda!

Please, God, dont let it be on sale!!!

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Wild Goats!

Good Day! It's great to have you stop by again.

I have another Dirk Crouse story today that I think you will enjoy.
Dirk is quite the character around here.

Several weeks ago, Dirk, and his brother Ray were hunting birds in a local farmer's fields. They were walking along when Dirk stepped on something that made a hollow echo sound. Before he realised what it was, it gave way beneath his right foot and he fell through up to his hip.

Ray quickly helped Dirk out and they soon found what looked like a well or a mine that had been covered with boards. Dirk was fortunate to have only put one leg through the rotting boards because it looked like a long way to the bottom.

Ray grabbed a rock and tossed it in the hole and waited to hear it hit bottom. After several minutes of silence, Dirk said they needed a bigger rock so they could hear better. He looked around and found a stone about twice as big as the one Ray had used. Dirk tossed it in and they waited. Nothing...

Ray looked around and found a stone so large he could hardly get it in the hole, but he did, and they waited, and listened. Still, nothing.

Well, that was all Dirk could put up with. Dirk is a man of little patience. He looked around and soon found an old railroad cross tie in some bushes near the hole. He got Ray to help, and together they pushed the cross tie into the hole. They waited a few moments, and suddenly a wild goat came crashing through the bushes and headed straight for them. The goat was moving faster the closer he got to Dirk and Ray. The goat broke right between Dirk and Ray and jumped in the hole without slowing down.

The 'Wild' Goat

Dirk and Ray were both flabbergasted. What in the world had gotten into that goat? He must have been mad with some disease or something. They started to cover the hole so no one would fall into it when the farmer that owned the field came walking up. He asked the two Crouse brothers if they had seen his goat anywhere. Dirk said that as a matter of fact a wild goat had come crashing up to them, and had jumped into the hole right there! The farmer looked at them and agreed that what they had just witnessed was strange indeed, but that it could not have been his goat. He went on to say that he had tied his goat to an old railroad cross tie by those bushes.

Ray said it cost them $75 for the goat, but it was worth it!

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