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After all the ‘haircuts’ in the past four days, we’re finally starting to spot those elusive big tomatoes!\u00a0 Mr. Stripey is showing off now.\u00a0 It will be just two more weeks, and he’ll be strutting his stuff like a top tomato model.<\/p>\n
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“You found our hiding place!”<\/p><\/div>\n
It was a weird sight today\u2014the spaghetti squash was playing hard to get and ended up getting stuck in a support structure.\u00a0 After a bit of tugging and pulling, we freed the stubborn squash and let it return to its true calling: a vegetable rather than a contortionist.<\/p>\n
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Saved by the bell!<\/p><\/div>\n
After the walk, we cleaned up and dressed and headed to my pulmonologist, who examined me and told Mary how sorry he was that she had to tow around an old buzzard like me.\u00a0 \u00a0She told the doctor, “When I am asked, I say I do charity work for the ugly and elderly!”\u00a0 My self-esteem took a slight beating, but I’m still fabulous no matter what the doctors say!<\/p>\n
He gave me some pills to ease the morning congestion, but otherwise I got a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n
I suggested Indian lunch, but while driving to the Indian tandoori place, we passed near the Orange Elks Lodge!\u00a0 We both remembered their advertisement for their famous turkey sandwich with a glass of vino; that sounded great!<\/p>\n
We stopped and went to the third floor, where the bar was as busy as a beehive on a summer day.\u00a0 I joined the Lodge as a Lodge citizen so we could get their newspapers.\u00a0 I may have accidentally volunteered Dr. Mary for the Squirrel Enthusiasts’ Association.<\/p>\n
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Lunch at the Orange Elks.<\/p><\/div>\n
The meal was excellent.\u00a0 We had sandwiches, each with a side of fries.\u00a0 Mary had a side salad, so I ate half of her club sandwich.<\/p>\n
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Yummy Yummy<\/p><\/div>\n
During our visit, we received a text from Bob Z. in an urgent tone. His late brother left behind a collection of German beer steins, and Bob, in a stroke of genius, thought of Mary because of her fluency in German.\u00a0 He asked her to help translate the messages on the beer steins.\u00a0 Who knew beer steins could be so entertaining?<\/p>\n
One Stein was in memory of the person’s third enlistment in the German army and included a list of officers, NCOs, and enlisted men in the unit, along with brief descriptions of their activities.\u00a0 The unit was a military engineering unit, like the SeeBees.<\/p>\n
Bob’s place was only three miles from the Lodge, so we lodged over there, and Mary went to work!<\/p>\n
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Helping Bob translate<\/p><\/div>\n
We searched the Internet for this coat of arms and found it on eBay\u2014thanks to Google!<\/p>\n
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I’m looking for this image online.<\/p><\/div>\n
Mary is almost done translating.<\/p>\n
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Go it!<\/p><\/div>\n
We headed home, walked the garden (without lifting a single shovel), and returned to the house for a few minutes.\u00a0 Then, we watched “The Good Doctor,” a super medical series.<\/p>\n
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We stayed away!<\/p><\/div>\n
We called our neighbor, Jeff, and visited him for a while before returning home and hitting the sack!<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, we are attempting to work out at the gym, which is basically a warm-up for the intense babysitting marathon ahead.\u00a0 Bonnie decided to visit her mother, Becky, in Tennessee.\u00a0 We were the only viable escape plan.\u00a0 Somehow, we got selected for heroic guard duty.\u00a0 It will be a wild adventure filled with laughs, tears, and possibly a few emergency phone calls to Bonnie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After all the ‘haircuts’ in the past four days, we’re finally starting to spot those elusive big tomatoes!\u00a0 Mr. Stripey is showing off now.\u00a0 It will be just two more weeks, and he’ll be strutting his stuff like a top … Continue reading