Cmon sort your trash

Went back to the raging metropolis of Ephrata this past weekend. -The booming cultural and economic titan of the Northwest. I'm not sure if our readers were aware of Ephrata's stature, and I must say that the community does a fine job camouflaging their success. None the less, I hold fast to my inclination, as it is the County Seat, and that means the Internet is fast fast fast!
Anyway, the kids were glad to see Chesty, Sam, and Molly. And I think the cats and dog appreciated us invading their serenity. I wish we had a place to keep them over here. Rileigh was more gentle with Chester, and he let her hold him. But then there was also the incident, where she thought she could carry him, and she kinda started to lose her grip, and he started to struggle, which ended in a little claw mishap. With the clawing and the biting and the crying, and the running and the jumping, a-hey. Nothing serious, but feelings were hurt some, and the progress which had been made, took a few steps back. There also seemed to be a big push to go to the "toy store" (which is kid code for Walley World). Why they got so attached to that store, I will never know. In the end, they were ready to head back to "the condo" -directly.
The kids and I are ready for a little more snow. But their concept and mine are different in many ways. This is OK with me ....and them.... but so far we have only been enticed by a light dusting and cool pictures from "THE" Halsted family.
I have reinforced my "bunker" (of sorts), with the results from the poles, and from letters to the editor in the local paper. I am not talking about the obligatory physical bunker, which comes when we start building our house. See, living in Idaho comes with some stipulations, and more are tacked on for Northern Idaho, or "The Panhandle" for short. Building permits are not handed out for free! Oh no, there are some requirements that go along before they get approved. One is the bunker, but as I said, we won't get ours until spring. No, I started this topic -before you got me off on that unnecessary tangent- with my personality bunker. Think Pink Floyd if I am losing you. Anyway, keep up with me here, you're built too low, things keep flying over your head! We are part of about 30% of the Idaho population (the ones that voted anyway). Also there were a few items on the ballot that required a little sharing of funds for the "good" of the population. Well, we were in the minority with those issues as well. Then there was a local issue, where a council person wanted to get a community pool/sport complex going. That was nixed emphatically, with the reasoning that we the people don't have $20 to waste, a year, on such frivolous political trivialities. So, I tallied that up, made some assessments, and put another brick in the wall ...so to speak. I have to be careful though, because walls are not always a good thing. I build up misconceptions about a person before I meet them, and soon there will be no bridging the gap. And all because I made some opinions about someone before I get to know them. I can't assume that I am the minority and that everyone is out to get me because of it. For example, someone could have voted against the sport complex, but is not adamantly opposed, they just did not feel it necessary. It is just easier to hunker down, than to open up and work things out.