Saturday Slight

It's been a short night, sleepwise, that is.

Nightwise, it's been unusual for this early-to-bedder. 

As my friend Helen said to me during a "text-storm" last night while I sat at the airport and Bill sat in the car at the cell phone parking lot, the "best-laid plans" don't always turn out. 

What was thought of as a routine trip to the airport to pick up Annie turned out to be a long wait. 

She finally arrived around 10:15 nearly three hours later than expected. 

Seems a plane made an emergency landing at Sea-Tac, grounding all other planes for at least two hours. 

Add to that the fact that Annie and her fellow passengers finally climbed aboard their plane, only to be told the crew had forgotten to do the security check.

Everyone had to deplane while they performed that function.  Annie's question:  how could they "forget" to do that?

That meant short nights of sleep for all of us and no Second Avenue pizza for Annie. 

When we did arrive home after midnight, all three dogs were racing around the house, OUTSIDE.  

The dogs were not supposed to be outside.  I had left them inside the garage.  

Either someone came calling and let them out, or the stinkers figured out how to open the door to the garage.  

That has happened before. 

So, the good news: I didn't have to take dogs out for their midnight duty.

The bad news:   Liam, who had already had his bathing needed another bath, so he slept in the garage last night. 

Another best laid plan went awry. 

The good news:  we made it home safely, and all is well on this Saturday morning, albeit a bit of grogginess. 

Long story short, this is gonna be short. 

I'm simply posting a couple of photos taken during yesterday's visit to the Waldorf School where kids learn OOOOOOdles of skills, including a lot of art, as seen in the photos. 

Will save that story for Monday after a decent night's sleep.

 When everyone else around here gets up, we're gonna get on with our Easter weekend visit. 

Tomorrow I'll simply post an Easter greeting and call it good. 

For now, it's Happy Saturday.

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One more thing:  I came across this article (in link) this morning and beamed. Cory Myers, Argus Leader news director, is a Sandpoint High Cedar Post (newspaper) alum.

 

In this April 9, 2019, photo, Argus Leader investigative reporter Jonathan Ellis and news director Cory Myers (right) in the newsroom in Sioux Falls, S.D. 

 In 2010, reporters at South Dakota’s Argus Leader newspaper came up with the idea of requesting data about the government’s food assistance program. 

They thought the information about the $65-billion dollar-a year program, previously known as food stamps, could lead to a series of stories and help them identify possible fraud. But the government didn’t provide everything the paper wanted. 

Trying to get the data has taken the paper more than eight years and landed the case at the Supreme Court. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP)

https://apnews.com/8c7a9b460c9049a6b5ae288f2548983c

As always, so proud of what our Sandpoint High School grads are accomplishing out there in the big wide world. 

Good Job! GO Get'em, Cory!