Wherever your travels take you, remember to write

Don’t forget to send The Slice a postcard from your summer travels.

And when doing so please complete this sentence: “The biggest difference between this place and Spokane is …”

Slice answers: Terri Kennedy said that no matter how much rain we’ve had, “The moment the match is struck to start the campfire, the conditions change to peak forest-fire danger.”

And Bob French knows exactly how many golf balls he has lost over the years. “That’s easy,” he said. “All of them.”

Geoff Praeger wonders: Do you think people look at your return-address stickers and judge you on the basis of the charities you seem to support and associations you appear to endorse, even if you never actually sent any money to the organizations in question?

From last Friday’s Slice: Kurt Laven had questions about joining the Marmot Lodge: “Do you have to be sponsored by a current member? Maybe make a large monetary donation or just ‘know the right people’? If a person is invited into the lodge is there a secret ceremony or a sacred rite of passage that the victim (member) must endure? Is it painful?

“If I were to pass the tests and become a member can I tell anyone I’m a member? Is the secret handshake hard to do? Is any branding or tattoos involved?

“What colors do we wear? Do we have sworn enemies or secret allies? Do we have to ride in funny cars during parades? Is there anything you can do that would result in expulsion?”

Good questions, Kurt. Though charter members enjoy a special status, anyone else who wants to be in the Marmot Lodge can join. You just have to pledge to try to be a good person.

In another matter, I was imprecise when saying last Friday that participants took turns throwing “rolled up” newspapers at that 2009 gathering of former newspaper carriers. Actually, the contestants hurled expertly folded papers.

Today’s Slice question: Who around here has gone the longest without ever making a bed?