The Canine Corner...by Missy MacTavish

How long is a piece of string? People are wondering how a piece of yellow string showed up on the roadway from Patricia Island Estates, running all the way to HarBer Road and Quail Run, a distance of several miles.
Was it the Rural Water District that placed the string to measure how much water pipe to buy? Or maybe GMSA? Or the cable TV company? Or someone trying to find his way home a la Hansel & Gretel?
Who can solve this mystery? I can't think of any reason to lay down a piece of string several miles long, so maybe you can.
On another subject, I have been watching teevee and the winter Olympics. This year features our best athletes falling down a lot. Maybe they are not used to the snow and ice. Our best skater waited until the 11th hour to pull out…she said something was wrong with her groin. Me too. I get those same injuries chasing around the yard. Anyhoo, how can the young lady filling in for the other skater get a fair shake when she has not been in Italy to rehearse.
I hope you get to read my column this week because Dad's internet service provider, Green Country, has been woefully out of business most of the week. I sure hope that someday Grove can grow up and get some modern communications in here, like getting SBC off its butt for DSL service, or the cable companies to put in something besides MTV. Our city spends thousands of dollars every month on engineering studies for this and that, but we can't modernize our communications.
That's enough of my soapbox…until next time, Miss Missy.