Post 1

People will tell you The Minted Spoon serves the best cinnamon rolls.

They're wrong.

It serves the second best.

Mine were better in 1978.

I know because I won first place in the baked goods contest at the Harvest Fair.

Three years in a row. Glad that's settled now.

-Gertrude

Post 2

Someone left a coffee cup on the stone bench in the village square.

There are trash cans.

Use them.

-Gertrude

Post 3

People say everyone has a story.

That's true.

Not everyone needs to tell me theirs while I'm buying vegetables.

Thank you, in advance.

-Gertrude

Post 4

I've been informed that yoga reduces stress.

So does telling people "no."

-Gertrude

Post 5

If you wave at me from across Main Street,

I will wave back.

Don't mistake that for an invitation to cross the street.

-Gertrude

Post 6

The squirrels in Stone Bench have become too comfortable.

They're starting to make eye contact.

I don't care for it.

-Gertrude

Post 7

The Minted Spoon has changed its lunch special again.

Apparently vegetables now require creativity.

-Gertrude

Post 8

Tourists keep asking whether Stone Bench is as peaceful as it looks.

It was.

Then somebody died.

-Gertrude