Nitty Gritty Version

Saying for the day– Sometimes Cinderella is left in the ashes.
Yesterday you read the fairytale version of Friday night now here is the modern tell it like it was version.
ON Friday I received an E-Mail invitation from "The Art Lady" , a person whose blog I had read but that I had never met. It was to an art exhibit at the Richeson School of Art & Gallery . I’m not much into art but here was a chance to meet a blogger other than my family. It might also offer me a chance to see some art by one of my favorite artists, Janvangogh. So I told Betty “Let’s go kid”. She pointed out that such exhibits are usually formal affairs and we had nothing to wear. She was right of course. My nearest suit coat was in Crystal Falls. My only formal wear was my clerics and I refuse to go as a priest. It was cold. So I put on an old woolen shirt which Betty said made me look like a Yooper Lumberjack. She put on her best suit. It is bright red and she looked like she was going fox hunting in England if they still do that sort of thing. Pennie wore what she had worn to work. Off we went. There was one additional problem. Pennie was on call and we could get beeped out at any moment. As in any adventure in which Pennie drives we got lost. We took the wrong turn on Kennedy and went for some distance before we knew it was wrong. Then we drove past the place. But finally Betty wrestled my walker out of the van and we went in. I hugged my coat closer and refused to remove it so nobody could see my lumberjack shirt.I saw a lady with a name tag explaining some fine detail on a painting. I figured that was “The Art Lady” and it was. I gave her the code word Janet and she said the proper response “ I love your blog”. She then showed me Janvangogh’s painting hanging all by itself in the bathroom. Not where I expected a painting of that quality to be hung. There were two more of Jan’s paintings in the exhibit. But Pennie was getting antsy afraid she would be beeped out. So we did a quick tour of the exhibit. Took a little time to talk to the artist who got the top prize and left. I wanted to go to a fancy steakhouse but Pennie said if we got beeped out there we could lose all that good food and still have to pay for it. So we went to Culver’s. Betty and I had hamburgers and Pennie had an ice cream concoction. Then we rushed home. Twenty minutes later Pennie was called to the hospital. It had been a great evening as such evenings go.
So which version did you prefer?
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@@@ News from Pigeon Falls-the little town in my garage where the trains still run, dragons fly, and there are too many Tommys- Virginia Welton is on a crusade. After the snowmobile incidents with the wild man and the turkey she is running a “ Stay on the Trail “ campaign. She was going to call it “Stay on the Trail-Stupid” but her husband talked her out of it. She has posted flyers all over town. They have pictures of wrecked snowmobiles, turkey covered snowmobiles, and a snowmobile in a tree at the foot of a cliff. She is determined to save the snowmobilers from themselves . It’s a rough task. Half of the snowmobilers start off at the Fly Inn and are flying by the time they hit the trails. So one of her sayings is “ Ride now, drink later”.
Nancy is doing her part. She is sharing the worst snowmobile stories with any snowmobiler that comes in for coffee. That includes the one where the guy went under a barb wire fence and got his throat slit. One would think that after a couple of those stories one would give up snowmobileing and take up knitting.
Tommy, the writer , says he might work some of that material into his book “ Murder in a Small Town”. He might even throw in a high speed snowmobile chase. That would make a great movie.
Eino told Tommy, the undertaker’s kid, that he was going to have a friend with a plane take some aerial shots of the area. They can then look and see if there is anything that could be a secret government instillation. Now the question is “What does a secret government instillation look like? Wouldn’t that be a secret?
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I had a good sleep last night and the coughing is down some. I can't get Betty's computer up but am working at it. My new speach recognition software came from IBM and fifty per cent of the time it doesn't. I spent most of the afternoon playing with that. I then played canasta with betty and Pennie and I won. Finnaly I visted almost all of the links and left comments.
Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA