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year, our grandson, Zane, has taken up a new hobby.

He decided to get into motorcycle racing. There are many types of motorcycle racing from flat track to motocross. Zane decided to get into what is called Hare Scramble.

This is racing dirt bikes through paths in the timber, up and down hills, and through mazes laid out over several miles. Zane has spent most of his free time making a course throughout the farm and practicing on it. My wife and I spend a lot of time worrying about his safety when he is out zooming around the woods with nobody sure where he is during his hours of practice. He has gone to races all over the state and has done quite well. Sunday, a race was held about thirty miles from our place so my wife and I decided to go see what it was like.

It was a perfect fall day.

The sun was shining, no wind, and the temperatures were cool without being cold. We arrived in time to see the first class race. I am not sure of what the maximum age is, but there is apparently no mini(Outdoors cont’d on pg 2)

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mum. There were dozens of little kids racing little motorcycles. Many appeared as though they had not been walking for too many years but could really ride. It was fun to see these little bitty kids zooming around on bikes that sounded like a bumble bee in a beer can. The next class was slightly older children on slightly bigger motorcycles. Most of these kids were at the age, they have no fear.

Speeds were definitely faster, and the course was longer. There were more accidents as skill levels did not always match courage and determination.

The final race of the day included what I would call professional riders. A person could tell these people had done this type of racing before. They went through places at speeds that seemed impossible. My wife and I watched at the starting line as they roared off toward the first tight corner. There was one crash there as two riders attempted to use the same space at the same time. They jumped up, grabbed their bikes, and were off again. Knowing it would be a few minutes before the first riders made their way to a nearby open field,

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we grabbed our lawn chairs and went over to wait for them. One of the riders who was down in the crash at the starting line was the first to come out of the timber into the open field about a half mile away. The course in the field was a series of turns and twists up and down the hills culminating in a corkscrew spiral before going back into the woods. From this vantage point, we could watch the riders for longer than anywhere else on the course.

The thing that impressed me the most throughout the day were the people.

Everyone was happy, smiling, and friendly.

Though people were there to compete, they would help each other when needed. Everyone seemed to watch out for everybody else.

I knew very few people there but talked with many. Nobody got hurt, and I saw nobody get angry. When the day was done, people helped take down the banners, barricades, and trail markers. I was talking with the landowner when a couple of riders came up and thanked him for allowing the club to put on the event on his property. The only liter I saw all day was one soda can. (Yes, I picked it up.)

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My wife and I came away from the event feeling better about our grandson’s latest hobby. The dirt bike community seems like a great bunch of people and the sport is safer than it appears.

The day was something different, but we enjoyed ourselves outdoors on a pleasant fall day.

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Penny A Pair We had been home for about an hour from our fall camping trip. When I heard the buzzer on the dryer sound off, I gathered the sheets from the bed in our Scamp. I put them in the washing machine, then retrieved the clothes from the dryer.

will be worn again.

One sock always gets a hole before the other. With most of my socks, I throw away the failed garment while the good sock gets washed, then put it back in the drawer, waiting for another matching sock to go I dumped a hamper bad. Then the survifull of clean, warm vor gets a new mate. clothes from the dryer That’s not so easy to onto the bed. First, I do with a theme or pull out any items that printed socks. need to be on hangers. Next, I like to fold I shook the towels well, and I would have the T-shirts, so they felt the sock if it was don’t wrinkle. Socks clinging inside a Tand under ware are shirt. I’m reasonably next, and towels are last. When I had fold- sure I know the culprit: ed everything, I picked that sock-eating Mayup a lone sock. “Dar- tag dryer. I returned to the basement and nit!” checked the drum - no It was one of my faSnoopy sock. “Savvorite pairs of socks: age beast,” I called they are short, beige the dryer as I shut the in color, with Peanut’s door, then went back characters on the upstairs to my bedankles. Charlie Brown room. is holding the phone I pushed my hand for Snoopy. One of inside the Snoopy the Peanut’s socks had a small hole, but I sock. Looking it over, refused to throw away I smiled, “At least the a pair of clean socks. dryer took the sock with the hole in it.” ExIf I’m going to toss a pecting the worst but pair, I do it after I’ve worn them. If a holey hoping for the best, I sock gets washed – it would place the lone

sock in the drawer – just in case.

Still holding the Snoopy sock, I took a single grey sock from the drawer. “I haven’t had any of these for years.” Then, as I tossed the single sock into the bathroom trash can, I began to ponder philosophical things and proper etiquette.

“What is the proper amount of time to keep a surviving sock when its solemate has been consumed by the dryer before admitting the lost soledure isn’t coming back?” Keeping that grey sock for years was undoubtedly beyond a reasonable period.

While holding my Peanuts-themed sock, I remembered my younger days when Mom and Dad always had a basket filled

with single socks.

squeezed the ends, the middle would open It was an oval-shaped like a clam shell. He wicker basket, larger poked through his than most oval wicker coins and handed me baskets. As a kid, I a dime. But then Mom thought thousands got involved. You see, of socks were in that Dad was somewhat basket. I’m sure it colorblind. was only two or three (maybe four) hundred Mom looked over the as an adult. Dad had socks I had brought. a standing agree“Son, this is a black ment: “I’ll pay a penny and a blue sock for every pair you you’ve paired togethmatch,” he offered. er.” Dad would never Many times, I thought have caught that. She I could make a fortune continued, “These are in that basket. two different shades of brown; these greys I presented ten pairs don’t match, and the of socks to Dad. The white socks; one has socks had to be fasred stripes around tened at the arch with the top, the other has a safety pin to colorange.” I returned lect your pay. “We to the paymaster wouldn’t have single wondering why Mom socks if you kids couldn’t just mind her would learn to pin own business. your socks together before putting them in Saturday mornings, I the laundry,” he lecwas often determined tured. to match several pairs. So I brought Dad reached into his the sock basket to the pocket and pulled out living room, where my his little green vinyl lazy siblings watched coin pouch. It was Saturday morning oval-shaped, like the (Just the Other Day cont’d on basket, and when you pg 5)

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“I did so,” they argued.

cartoons. “Anybody want to help match some socks and make some money,” I asked. Glued to the TV, they had no interest in matching socks.

Shaggy and Scoobie Doo soon gained my attention, and I also lost interest in the socks. But it was still worth bringing the basket to the living room.

“Did not,” I insisted.

Another sibling would vouch for them, “Yes, they did. I heard them.”

“I don’t care,” I said.

“I brought the basket to the living room and had it first.” Now it was a matter of size.

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Determined to keep my nesting place, I gripped the sides of the basket, locking I laid inside the basket my knees over the on top of the socks. end. The larger sibling Then, resting my head would flip the basPellaHealth.org/Careers on one rounded end, ket, with me still in it. with my feet hanging Socks spilled everyover the other, I joined where. An argument my brothers and sisensued, getting louder ters watching TV. before you put them and louder.

Soon the wicker edge in the laundry.” Those Eventually, Dad would felt uncomfortable on were simple days. come around the my head. I went to my bedroom to get the pil- corner in his bathrobe, I stood by my dresser, low and blanket from “You kids need to pip holding and studydown, or turn that TV ing my sock. “Can a my bed. off!” Saturday was his dryer eat two socks at When I returned to the only day to sleep in, once,” I asked Snoopy living room, someone and he wasn’t happy, and Charlie Brown? had taken my basket. “Why are these socks They just looked at “You didn’t call ‘place all over the place?” me. “I know people backs,’” they declared. lose a sock in the “Instead of just sitting I would have to wait dryer all the time, but there, you guys could until the wicker edge I’ve never heard of be matching socks was hurting their anyone losing a pair while watching TV.” head, then seize the at the same time. So (Note that the ‘penny opportunity to reclaim I wonder, if you pin a a pair was not offered’ my basket when they pair of socks together, as we had disturbed went for their pillow. would it be impossible his slumber.) The for the dryer to eat When that person lecture would always them?” returned with their pil- follow, “We wouldn’t low, they demanded I have all these loose While I pondered surrender the basket. socks if you kids these questions, my “You didn’t call place dog sat at my feet. would learn to pin backs,” I said.

“Dad, do you really your socks together

think those cartoon in the dryer.” characters will answer When the dryer buzzyou?” er sounded, Nova and “Sometimes they do,” I went to retrieve the I answered. I heard sheets and dumped the washer clunk as it them onto the bed. I finished its spin cycle. fold the pillowcases “Come on, Nova Mae. first, then the flat Let’s go put the sheets sheet to free up space on the bed before tackling the fitted sheet.

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As I spread the fitted sheet, I swore I heard a faint voice, “Hello.

It’s for you.”

“Did you say something,” I asked my dog?

“I didn’t say anything, but I heard it, too,” Nova Mae answered.

I felt inside the corners of the fitted sheet and found something, probably the Bounce dryer sheet. I pulled it out. “Would you look at that,” I said to Nova Mae. It was the lost beige sock, with Charlie Brown handing the phone to Snoopy.

I immediately went to the sock drawer, folding the two matching socks together. “I should get a penny for this,” I said to my dog.

“I think you should get the penny,” Charlie Brown said. “Me too,” said Snoopy.

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