This morning I watched and was delighted to see that it is still almost as good as it has ever been. The one thing I miss is the nature segment they used to always do at the end. I don’t think they do that anymore or I am missing it for some reason.
The best segment this morning was about a mail boat on lake Geneva WI…
(CBS) Mail carriers are always in the swim of things in Lake Geneva, Wis., because they travel their delivery routes by boat. Every piece of mail arrives by special delivery.CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Bill Geist reports they’ve been doing it that way since 1873. He says it’s a treasured tradition that could almost pass for a love letter.
Or an old postcard come to life, as a steam yacht known as the Walworth II, which also serves as the mailboat, slips across the clear, sparkling waters of the lake.
Geist says people in the town still enjoy the same simple pleasures they always have, in a timeless place where the arrival of summer is announced by the first mailboat.
Residents such as Jim and Darrell Riley set their calendars by it.
“The mailboats start the beginning of the season of the summer,” Darrell says, “and it’s always a very sad day when it’s the last day the paper is delivered, ’cause that means it’s September and its time to go back to the city.”
Bill Gage owns and operates the mailboat, as his father and grandfather did before him.
“The mail started right at the beginning in 1873,” he says, “but they were delivering groceries and furniture and everything else along with the mail. …The mail had to be delivered by water, just because there wasn’t a decent road system around the lake until the 1920s, and people who owned homes on the lake literally came back and forth to their houses by boat … and the tradition has continued ever since.”
I’m glad you are feeling light hearted this Sunday morning. Very out of character for your smart socially informed and politically active self. I have to go outside and look at flowers to feel anywhere near the same way, and the network news never seems to be able to get me anywhere except pissed right now. I look at the above photo and think to myself “Nice fucking mail boat you giant out of touch with reality assholes!” Sigh……Maybe next Sunday.
LOL. I really do know what you mean. But I have been depressed for weeks and I am tired.
Sometimes I have to stop and appreciate people and the beauty of the world… appreciate what there is to appreciate and leave off the worry about things you can’t change at least part of the time or you will become as burnt out as I have been. I can’t even make myself care about people dying or starving lately because I have such outrage fatique.
WE all need a little restoration now and then Tracy and I hope you will indeed go out into the garden and find some.
I have to agree with you Teresa, CBS Sunday morning is still one of the few things on MSTV that is worth watching. I forget to turn on the TV most of the time and when I do there is almost always something on PBS that seems to be worthy of my time. I just discovered that Idaho has more per capita PBS viewers than any place in the nation. . .Holy Cow. . .that gives me hope. Unless of course the new Corporate Repub management totally destroys the news and science informational content. I’m not sure they want to piss me off that much. . .but we will see.