While the cat's away

the mice will play!

Scott Hall is headed out on a road trip today, and the rest of us will be filling in while he's gone. Here's what we're working on-

The Ham Lake fires - Maggie and John are both working on stories about this. Maggie will be on Monday and Wednesday - she's hoping to talk with some of the folks from WTIP North Shore radio in Grand Marais and firefighters from our area who went to help. John's looking into the insurance side of the forest fire story, he'll be on with Jennifer on Thursday.

Also, Doug MacRostie is sitting in with Maggie on Monday and will be bringing you The Binary Boys. Apparently it's something new on PS2. Whatever that means :)

On Friday next week John and I are going to talk with a couple of authors - Minnesotan author Micheal Lane and his book "The Wisdom of Yawdy Rum". I'm taking it home to read over the weekend - KAXE volunteer Don Vidal recommended it to me, after meeting the author on a plane ride (I think). It's the story of a wise old jazz singer in New Orleans...with a portion of the proceeds going to the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund.

As I was writing this, I couldn't quite remember how the proverb for the title went - who would play and who would stay. Mark Tarner forwarded me a funny email he got, where they had First Graders finish the proverbs. Here's a few of them:

Don't change horses......................until they stop running.
Strike while the....................................bug is close.
It's always darkest before..................Daylight Saving Time.
Never underestimate the power of........................termites.
You can lead a horse to water but............................how?
Don't bite the hand that.............................looks dirty.
No news is............................................impossible.
A miss is as good as a .......................................Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new .............................math.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll..........stink in the morning.
An idle mind is...........................the best way to relax.
Where there's smoke there's...........................pollution.
A penny saved is.......................................not much.
Two's company, three's .............................the Musketeers.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.....you have to blow your nose.
There are none so blind as........................Stevie Wonder.
Children should be seen and not.............spanked or grounded.
When the blind lead the blind................get out of the way.

-Heidi