TBW Daily Diary

The handmade holiday candy sale is in full swing at St. Michael's Lutheran Church on State Street. Patties are fifty cents each and come in an assortment of flavors--peanut butter, mint, creamsickle, butter cream and others. You can place your order and get further information by calling Lindsay at 234-6644. But don't wait too long; the candy makers have other duties in the church's Christmas programs . . . Our neighborhood is in an uproar since we learned that a corporation wants to convert the old convent at Second and Liberty into a boarding house for 30-some residents while waving the requirement to provide parking spaces. Our CAN organization is certain to raise objections and well they should. One may hope that the city is a bit far-thinking before it approves of this particular project . . . Bob is having new windows installed in his Uptown home and a new door to the balcony from my second-floor bedroom. We try not to smile at his predicament, but the workman installing the door inadvertently locked himself out on the balcony. He couldn't pound for attention since Bob would simply have thought it a part of the construction. Luckily the workman had a cell phone and could call his company which in turn called Bob and told him to go unlock the door. Does this fall under the "occupational hazard" definition? . . . Thanks to Angela Lawson for treating us to Susan Boyle's Christmas album . . .