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It\u2019s just one minute after high noon on a Monday and I\u2019m already on my second Bloody Mary. Now before you look up AA in the phone book (It\u2019s toward the front) to forward me the number..or start planning for a Lund intervention..chill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m retired, it\u2019s below zero outside, and I don\u2019t plan on leaving our cozy little house today unless I run out of tomato juice. Besides, a BM just appealed to me this morning. Wait a sec, that doesn\u2019t sound right. I\u2019m talking about a Bloody Mary..not the other BM. Although, at my age, I find that either is pretty good any time the urge presents itself.<\/p>\n
For years, whenever Linda and I were in Watertown, we\u2019d make it a point to stop in to see Jack the bartender at the Zoom Zoom Room who made the best BM\u2019s we\u2019d ever tasted. Eventually, I was able to talk him into giving me his recipe which is pretty basic (vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, lemon juice, celery salt and three gianormous olives on a plastic skewer)\u00a0 but the proper proportions are critical to achieving the flavor we always enjoyed..at least for the first couple..then it doesn\u2019t matter if you leave out everything but the vodka.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Steve Hemmingsen stopped over for a visit on Saturday.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t drink BM\u2019s..preferring, instead, to throw back a couple \u201cdiet\u201d Cokes..which, if you were to see either of us in person, would clearly expose us for the hypocrites we are. I mean, if we were serious about cutting calories, we should be passing on those second helpings of pasta primavera or roast beef platters smothered in brown gravy. Anyway, we both laughed about our enormity and then lied on how how we definitely planned on doing something about it before we tip over in our soup.<\/p>\n
Always good to see Steve, though, and he tells me he\u2019s writing again. Well, it\u2019s more like a daily e-mail dealing mostly with people and events in and around his new hometown of Hendricks, Minnesota. Of course, Steve isn\u2019t afraid to offer up comments and personal opinions as part of his reports which the locals have long since come to expect, appreciate and occasionally blush over since they\u2019re often included in the town gossip which he\u2019s more than willing to pass along. Anyway, to read Steve\u2019s daily offerings, just send him a note that you\u2019d like to be included on his e-mail list. Here\u2019s his address: anchor1@itctel.com<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Let\u2019s see, what else?\u00a0 Hang on..need to freshen my beverage. (note: out of lemon juice)<\/p>\n \u00a0Since we\u2019re going to have a house full of family again this year, Linda is in full Christmas preparation mode and following through on projects we\u2019ve been talking about for years; namely turning our basically un-used front room into a full fledged dining room. Daughter, Patty was more than happy to take the couch and love seat from the front room. They were like new since nobody had planted a butt on the cushions in years. Now, we\u2019ve moved my parents\u2019 dining table, chairs, buffet and the tall clock, that my dad built, in there.<\/p>\n We had my brother, cousin and their wives over for a soup supper the other night and the d\u00e9cor met with everybody\u2019s approval; bringing back fond memories of dining experiences at 525 Marvin Avenue, Volga, South Dakota.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also found a perfect spot for the Library table that came from Linda\u2019s childhood home in Alcester. The only problem was there were no chairs to go with it. So, we spent Friday afternoon on a quest of antique and furniture stores looking for a set of 4 matching chairs that would fill the bill which we found at I-29 antique and collectables store just a quarter mile west of the Tea exit.<\/p>\n \u00a0We were surprised at all the cars in the parking lot not realizing that I-29 Antiques is well known and been in business for about 30 years. It\u2019s filled to the rafters with all kinds of neat stuff..including just what we wanted and at a ridiculously low price ($75).<\/p>\n We have some oak veneer damage to repair and will be recovering the mauve chair seats but love the match.<\/p><\/div>\n I was so motivated that when we got home I strung up both strands of LED Christmas lights to their assigned positions on little nails strategically located around the front deck. I was pleasantly surprised to find that all the lights\u00a0 lit up. I love LED. They\u2019re not as bright as the other kind but they don\u2019t burn out so fast either.<\/p>\n Hmmm, I can\u2019t help but notice a personal parallel here; when I get lit up during the holidays, I tend to not be as bright either.<\/p>\n That\u2019s it; time to put on a pot of coffee.<\/p>\n \u00a0Irish Coffee??<\/p>\n Nah..better not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s just one minute after high noon on a Monday and I\u2019m already on my second Bloody Mary. Now before you look up AA in the phone book (It\u2019s toward the front) to forward me the number..or start planning for a Lund intervention..chill.\u00a0 I\u2019m retired, it\u2019s below zero outside, and I don\u2019t plan on leaving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"table](\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2012\/12\/table-lunds-029.jpg\" "\\"table")
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