Author: Joan Hasskamp

This goofball just popping in to say hi!

To all you nonbelievers, I do own an apron! If you look closely you will see I got it in Orlando Florida in 2010 when I participated in the Pillsbury Bake Off!! In other news, I think it’s National Fib Day!

I suppose I should have paid attention in home economics class. The teacher probably advised wearing an apron when rolling out cookie dough!!

I continue to find fascinating news in the Remember When section of the Crosby-Ironton Courier. It was 25 years ago that a deer jumped in the window at the C-I Junior High School. I suspect this deer was not of right mind. I arrived at that conclusion because every day I sat in class in junior high school, I dreamed about jumping OUT the window!!

As I continue to catch up on my old Crosby-Ironton Couriers, I keep finding interesting items in the Remember When Section. It was 95 years ago that a Rolls-Royce was stolen in Deerwood. The next evening the thief returned it. What? Not good enough for him?! Well, now that I think about it, the Rolls would stand out in the Crosby area. I give the thief kudos for realizing he should have stolen a Ford instead!

But not only did the thief return the vehicle, he left a tube of mysterious, yellowish liquid in it. Because the tube was packed in corrugated paper, chemists who examined it deduced it might be an explosive liquid. But because they couldn’t validate whether it was or not, they offered the bottle up to anyone in the community who wanted to experiment with it to see if indeed it was explosive!! That makes perfect sense. Let those aspiring 10 year old scientists take it home and light a match to it!

It’s been a good time to catch up on my reading of the Crosby-Ironton Courier. I refuse to throw one in the recycling bin until I’ve read it from cover to cover. I obviously fell quite far behind because several of the issues in the reading pile are from May 2019! One of my favorite sections is “Remember When”. It features tidbits of news from the past 105 years. The one’s that mention me are my favorite but I haven’t found any of those yet. But I did find out about a runaway pig!

The paper reported a pig was on the loose in my neighborhood in 1914. Someone on my street found him but the finder stated in the Courier they weren’t giving him back unless the owner paid for the ad and the pig’s keep. Clearly not the charitable type. Lucky that pig isn’t running around the neighborhood today. He’d be stashed away in the guest bedroom along with 100 rolls of toilet paper!!

Maybe I shouldn’t have ignored that “No Metal Detecting” on Federal Lands sign!!!!