tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331783333799799045.post5094673531657001127..comments2023-04-03T09:02:40.381-04:00Comments on Views from the Countryside: Missed the Book Sale This Year (gasp)Barbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04179027379034179865noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331783333799799045.post-69349688836515095442011-08-08T13:58:29.862-04:002011-08-08T13:58:29.862-04:00Thanks for commenting everyone. I hated to miss t...Thanks for commenting everyone. I hated to miss that sale, but at the library today they said it was an awful mess because of the pouring rain.<br /><br />Jill, that's funny that Jim could just walk right up to Truman when he was a kid. Don't you wish we still had those days when scandals were hair transplants? I know I do. I'm tired of politicians thinking with the wrong part of their anatomy.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179027379034179865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331783333799799045.post-66378117624181476802011-08-07T18:42:51.730-04:002011-08-07T18:42:51.730-04:00Hope the weather gets less humid soon for you (and...Hope the weather gets less humid soon for you (and us too for that matter). Sorry you missed the booksale.(Diane) Bibliophile By the Seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10519875632878992728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331783333799799045.post-28512261824454393072011-08-07T15:18:20.066-04:002011-08-07T15:18:20.066-04:00My husband as a child also met Truman. (He went u...My husband as a child also met Truman. (He went up and shook his hand at a baseball game, during the good old days of not having to have much security!)<br /><br />I remember going to the Wisconsin State Fair in August when I was in college, and it was to be very exciting because Proxmire was appearing there with his scandalous hair implants! (another reference to the good old days, when scandals were as simple as hair implants!)rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331783333799799045.post-16901615860004035122011-08-07T12:06:21.774-04:002011-08-07T12:06:21.774-04:00I'm sure they missed you at the book fair. It...I'm sure they missed you at the book fair. It's too bad you couldn't make it.bermudaonionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726401178972099557noreply@blogger.com