My Cat Is Wierdly Evil, by Adam Grigg

First, when it wants food, it begs and begs until your head almost explodes; and then it barfs up these hairballs all over the place, and usually exactly the same place where we step, where we sleep, or mostly in any unexpected place. You never know when you are going to step in puke.

And now, about the cat being irritating: if you let the cat out just before you go to bed, it wants back in at 2 am. Most of the time, just when you get calm, the cat knocks something really large over and you have a gigantic mess to clean up.

To sum it up, the cat is just one of the strangest cats ever. If you are nice to it, it will be nice to you, but that doesn't subside the barfing. My cat is just weird.

Editors note: This was written by corespondent Adam Grigg nearly a year ago, but due to a filing accident was just recently rediscovered.

Ashley Grigg Wins "Best of the West - Painting" Award

Ashley poses in front of her winning painting with its subject, her uncle Willy Grigg. The piece was selected, along with others, from the West River Art Festival held in April at the Pennington County Fairgrounds to show in "The Best of the West" exhibit of High School art at the Dahl Fine Arts Center. In May she was awarded "Best Painting" and $25.
More of Ashley's art can be seen at a web page created by her sister, Kathy Grigg found at
www.d.umn.edu/~grigg034/5230/client/

10 Year Old Unchanged By Birthday

After spending an entire week in the double digits, new 10 year old Adam Grigg admits he doesn't feel any different. He predicts more noticeable changes in the future, claiming, "When I'm 13 I'll probably like girls. Because of hormones--you know, the same thing that makes your armpits stink."