Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Anyone for an omelet?

Still here in Maine, where it is less than 20°F and falling with 5 or 6 inches of new snow. SWMBO and I have taken turns being sick with colds and then severe bronchitis which has made departure for sunnier climes impossible. In the meantime, there's always the local daily to amuse me:

Nearly 260,000 eggs stolen in Maine

By The Associated Press

TURNER, Maine — Maine State Police asked authorities throughout New England to be on the lookout for an unmarked truck hauling eggs without the proper paperwork as they investigated the theft of nearly 260,000 eggs from a Maine egg farm.

An estimated 259,200 eggs, stacked on 24 pallets and worth about $25,000, were stolen from the Quality Egg Farm of New England in two separate incidents...


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4 comments:

threecollie said...

We go through an amazing amount of eggs around here, but it wasn't us...

loisontheweb said...

Somebody is throwing a big party with lots of EGG NOG?

loisontheweb said...

I have moved my blog to blogspot ... not happy with AOL closing its journals.
How do you rate such warm weather?

loisontheweb said...

I didn't know why my BLOGspot photo didn't show up on my previous comments .... turns out that I was signed in under one of my alter egos from when I was moving to BLOGspot.
So ... I'm using your page as my guinea pig.
LOIS