This Just In...

The magazine "Progressive Farmer" has picked Polk County -- our county -- as one of the top 10 Best Places to Live in Rural America. Gillespie County in the Hill County of Texas was No. 4 but we prefer the mountains. Read all about it here.

Ice and Snow

We have a light dusting of snow and now we're getting sleet. The emergency radio is full of calls on "1050s" -- auto accidents in Polk County emergency talk. Our job at the volunteer fire department usually defaults to traffic control on these calls unless there is a fire involved. We are not certified as a rescue unit yet so we have no extraction tools. I am sure there will be more calls as the day progresses because the forecast is for nasty weather until Friday morning.

I found this interesting story about one of the wars I covered.
Former Salvadoran Foes Share Doubts on War - washingtonpost.com

Sen Joe Biden used his mouth to shoot himself in the foot with some comments about the other Democratic presidential candidates. He said Sen. Barak Obama is "the first mainstream African American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."