Thursday,  Nov. 07, 2013 • Vol. 16--No. 114 • 3 of 32

Claremont Recorder
by Beverly Patterson

• How do you feel about the time change?  I have one of those procrastinator proof clocks.  It changes the time all by itself.  I don't have to remember to do it and I am liking that alot.   The alarm clock on the night stand was created to do the same thing but it has a bit of an attitude.  Our last confrontation occurred earlier this year when the time changed.  It didn't do what it was supposed to do so in an effort to help it think, I think I ticked it off and then I feared using it as an alarm clock because I wasn't sure it was over our confrontation.  I decided to set the alarm on my tablet but learned rather quickly that waking up to "Crocodile Rock", even though you love that song, isn't the best thing to hear first thing in the morning.  I woke up startled, confused and fearing I had dosed off at a concert.
• It seemed like such a fast paced, busy week but I have no submitted news to share.  I did ask a few of the coffee drinkers if they had anything they wanted in print and all I got was one guy telling me that he did have news but feared his untimely death should he decide to share it.  I told him we could print it but leave out names and for a second I had him convinced.  Unfortunately that nervous look returned to his face and  I reassured him I would not say anything about a certain someone getting locked out of their house. 
• Someone left a copy of The Fishing Dictionary on the coffee table today and as I paged through it I found the definition of Racket to be quite amusing.  I am sort of thinking it would apply to hunting as well.  "Racket:" The loud, obnoxious fish or pheasant frightening noise made by fishing or hunting companions who actually in

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