Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: \u00a0 We sat in on a Conistoga Neighborhood meeting in Port Clinton, Ohio. \u00a0 The mayor and a city patrolman in charge of the Property Maintainance Code was there. \u00a0 The officer referred to broken down vehicles, old rusting refrigerators, et. al. as: “yard art.” \u00a0 He outlined a series of steps neighborhood homeowners can take to report this, etc. \u00a0 Later in the meeting, a local woman gave a short presentation on “stress relief” (especially if the yard art is getting on one’s nerves). \u00a0 Maha Najd from Oasis Healing Arts demonstrated deep breathing techniques — which my wife Liz decided to use during our next, oh, tiff. \u00a0 Speaking of stress relief… \u00a0 We stayed at a campground just south of Bowling Green Friday night. \u00a0 Severe weather was predicted and all the campers congregated at the brick social hall. \u00a0 A high intensity, very brief front blew through with black clouds and 75 mph winds. \u00a0 It lasted no more than five minutes. \u00a0 As our daughter Sarah, 12, and I sat on a bench outside just afterward looking at the clear sky at sunset behind the front, Sarah asked: \u00a0 “Do you think it’s over Dad?” \u00a0 I said (tongue in cheek) that just like there’s total calm in the eye of a hurricane, “…we’re probably sitting in the Midwest’s equivalent of that.” \u00a0 She looked sideways at me and said: \u00a0 “I think I’ll go talk to Mom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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