Monday Meanderings - 9.12.2016

In North Texas, the opening of Dove Season is the Labor Day weekend. You know it is so, because if you happen to check into a motel in Graham, Texas that weekend, they will tell you that they are serving breakfast in the morning, "starting at 4am." Who eats breakfast at 4am? Hunters, who want to be in the field before the sun comes up at 7:11am. Best Western apparently understands that.


We pass through the little town of Lometa on the way to North Texas; for as long as we can remember, there has been a little church of Christ on Main street,  just as you drive into town. We even stopped for services at that church on one occasion. This time through, the sign out front said "Lometa Firearms Company." I'm hoping the church relocated elsewhere rather than changed their method of ministry.

A local traffic advisory sign was sending mixed messages the other day. It said, prominently, "Today's homework: keep your eyes on the road."

And here's an item that showed up in the news feed the other day.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be in jail than live with his wife.
 
Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note to a bank teller in Kansas City on Friday, demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money and went to sit in the lobby where he told a guard he was the "guy he was looking for."
 
Officers arrived quickly. An FBI agent wrote in the affidavit that Ripple had earlier been arguing with his wife. He told investigators he wrote the note in front of his wife, telling her he would "rather be in jail than at home."
 
Ripple was charged with bank robbery Tuesday.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Ripple.

My guess is that his wife is the one looking for an attorney.