Last night, I found an SD card on my desk and, lo and behold, it contained all my photos from last summer’s fires. Before we get to the serious stuff, here’s my favorite firefighter appreciation poster ever.
It is so dry out there it feels like a bug fart* could start a blaze. You should not need anyone — not your momma, not your grandma, and not the government — to tell you making sparks is a bad idea. That’s the first thing.
Whew, that was a lot of P’s in one paragraph.
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“Our vision is always very community-focused, very community-centered. Programs like this can really highlight that and bring the community together.”
~ Meeker Library Director Kristina Selby
When the Meeker Regional Library opens their doors for a community blood…
Organized search efforts have been temporarily suspended for 20-year-old Samuel Bower, an at-risk Rifle man who has been missing since Wednesday, July 8.…
7/9/2026 @ 12:58 p.m. Report of a child headed down the river from the Circle Park area in a blue kiddy pool came in to dispatch from PD, thankfully already on the scene dealing with unrelated matters.
The child was retrieved from the water near 10th Street Bridge and reunited with mom.
What, exactly, is the point of a newspaper in 2026?
Also, I said that I am good at a few things, and I would like to clarify it’s approximately three things and I am not even sure what they all are, but it’s probably basically the skill set of a hobbit from last week’s newsletter. #secondbreakfast
“Never tell me the odds!” ~ Han Solo, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
If cyclospora is a parasite, and a parasite is a “bug”, the bug fart definition is pretty solid. 🐛💨
#notadoctor
This week’s secret offers a peek into the funhouse that is my brain.
Over the Fourth, I spilled Dippin’ Dots all over my Nikon. I cried about it. (That’s not the secret. I cry about a lot of stuff.) I was suuuuuper worried I had ruined my camera forever, but I decided to let it dry and see what happened.
Then I forgot all about the incident (hmm, that seems to be a theme of mine) until I tried to take pics this week and discovered all the buttons and knobs were stuck down by dried Dippin’ Dot goo. I carefully dug some of it out, and everything seems to be working properly-hooray! However, my search for 91% isopropyl alcohol for further cleaning, as recommended by The Google, was fruitless.
While I was looking, I did discover that I own approximately 27 floss … flosses? Flossi. Floss … thingies.
That’s more embarrassing. Maybe that should be the secret.
Anyway, don’t spill Dippin’ Dots on stuff. Also, don’t buy floss just because it’s on sale.
Ok, that’s enough free life advice for one email.
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