What is yellow or blue and has hundreds of feet?

What is yellow or blue, has hundreds of feet, and took a walk on Sumneytown Pike this morning in North Wales Borough ?
Give up ?
It was the "Walking School bus" organized by The North Wales Elementary School and St Rose of Lima School. St Rose wore yellow t-shirts; North Wales, blue.
They got a beautiful day for the walk down Sumneytown Pike from each school to the Parkside Place Pavilion in Upper Gwynedd and back again -- all to remind the moms and dads how they once walked to school, and to show the children, the parents, the teachers and the community how walking to school is a good thing for promoting healthy lifestyles, a friendly, walkable community, and needing a few less big yellow school buses on the roads. I got to walk too and it was lots of fun.
Of course, the walk also shows the need for sidewalks in key places. Oddly enough, this need was also recognized at my table at the recent Montgomery County Transportation Summit I attended recently as the type of project that might provide a needed boost to Montgomery County's communities and lessen traffic congestion at the same time.
I love it when bright ideas come together like that. Maybe the County program will help North Wales add a few sidewalks where they are needed to have these children walk to school every day.
Then, it was back on the Turnpike to Harrisburg, where we are finishing up a flurry of bills before the election break. Ironically, I had visitors from North Wales waiting for me -- North Wales Borough Council member Jocelyn Tenney and Borough Manager Sue Patton up in Harrisburg with the Pennsylvania Boroughs Association. Jocelyn is the current President.
After they were introduced on the Floor, I lost track of them as the Speaker called up dozens of bills concerning nurses, dogs, electricity, gun trafficking, scrap metal -- you name it, we worked on it today. As I struggled to keep each bill straight (how did they do this before computers ?) I had the feeling that, incrementally, like all of those legs in the Walking School bus, we are improving lives for Pennsylvanians, step by step.
Kate Harper

I know where Sarah Palin was this Weekend

While I was driving around today from event to event, I happened to catch a news reporter intoning "Sarah Palin has nothing on her schedule today," and thought to myself---she's a wife and mother of five--are they kidding ?
By all accounts Alaska's First Dude is a supportive and caring husband who can wrassle a bear and burp a baby with the best of them. I am lucky to be married to a similarly supportive and talented guy. Nevertheless, he still believes there's such a thing as the "toilet paper and toothpaste fairy," who magically replaces the empty toilet paper roll and replenishes the toothpaste whenever it runs dry.
On a weekend before Session in Harrisburg, I run around replenishing bathroom and kitchen supplies, doing the laundry and stocking up on frozen dinners, and planning at least one big "crock pot meal" so the family doesn't starve while I'm away.
I know where Sarah Palin was this weekend. She was doing the laundry.
I, on the other hand, joined the North Wales Historic Commission to mark the placing of a monument to William Trego, celebrated painter of large heroic American paintings like the "March to Valley Forge," near the spot where he lived in the Borough.
From there, it was onto my favorite place on earth, Penllyn Woods, for the Lower Gwynedd Countrie Picnic where I talked to lots of folks and got to judge the cookie contest. I know, it's a tough job but somebody's got to do it!
Meanwhile, I did two loads of laundry this morning before I left the house and I can finish up the rest tonight. Sarah, I'm with you ! Kate Harper