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lsandersonI fell prone to browsing Natter this morning. I should know better. Bad me. It's very much like a loose tooth that the tongue cannot leave alone. I fired off several e-mails that I probably should have resisted.
I ran out to my aunt's this morning. She was not feeling very good. I dropped of her laundry and then I ran out and got her a new toothbrush (her other one had fallen on the floor) and some chocolates. My sister and cousin are in town. They'd brought her a big basket of toiletries and chocolate potato chips from a place in Fargo.
I left my aunt around 11:00 and headed back through the gauntlet of the Uptown Art Fair to hit Lunds and TCF. I lusted after a big apple pie in Lunds, but stuck to potato salad and sausages for the picnic. I ran to the French Meadow to pick up some bread.
Back at home, I through together some pink stuff, packed the ice chest with soda and ice from the icemaker, and loaded everything in the car. I then tried to find the picnic space, which was difficult to get to because of a race (they had the main street blocked off). I found a route that wandered through the Veterans Home, and for the second year, was the first one to the picnic area.
I unloaded my car and sat to wait. Laura and David arrived shortly afterewards. At some point, a large contingency of Hispanic/Indians arrived and took over the assigned picnic area where we were supposed to be.
Several people brought dogs. (Must remember next year if we hold a picnic there, that it is posted as no dogs.) Several of the dogs got along not well with each other.
I had to leave around six to get ready to go eat with my sister and cousin at Goodfellows. Tim was there, who I ustta know from Fargo and who has worked there forever. He bought my sister a desert, and we thanked him before we left. I was too stuffed from the picnic to eat much, but had a salad and a bowl of soup. Both were excellent. My cousin had the tasting menu, but I could not talk my sister into trying it. She had pork.
I ran out to my aunt's this morning. She was not feeling very good. I dropped of her laundry and then I ran out and got her a new toothbrush (her other one had fallen on the floor) and some chocolates. My sister and cousin are in town. They'd brought her a big basket of toiletries and chocolate potato chips from a place in Fargo.
I left my aunt around 11:00 and headed back through the gauntlet of the Uptown Art Fair to hit Lunds and TCF. I lusted after a big apple pie in Lunds, but stuck to potato salad and sausages for the picnic. I ran to the French Meadow to pick up some bread.
Back at home, I through together some pink stuff, packed the ice chest with soda and ice from the icemaker, and loaded everything in the car. I then tried to find the picnic space, which was difficult to get to because of a race (they had the main street blocked off). I found a route that wandered through the Veterans Home, and for the second year, was the first one to the picnic area.
I unloaded my car and sat to wait. Laura and David arrived shortly afterewards. At some point, a large contingency of Hispanic/Indians arrived and took over the assigned picnic area where we were supposed to be.
Several people brought dogs. (Must remember next year if we hold a picnic there, that it is posted as no dogs.) Several of the dogs got along not well with each other.
I had to leave around six to get ready to go eat with my sister and cousin at Goodfellows. Tim was there, who I ustta know from Fargo and who has worked there forever. He bought my sister a desert, and we thanked him before we left. I was too stuffed from the picnic to eat much, but had a salad and a bowl of soup. Both were excellent. My cousin had the tasting menu, but I could not talk my sister into trying it. She had pork.
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Date: 2003-08-02 10:33 pm (UTC)I'd actually gotten slightly concerned when they started yelling at each other as they left about being "you fat drunk" or whatnot, but they must have been too drunk to actually fight, maybe. A couple of us went and extinguished our neighbors burning coals, after they'd left and dumped them out on the ground. I think someone even cleaned up some of their recycling.
Not the best neighbors.
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Date: 2003-08-02 10:42 pm (UTC)I assume it was the Hispanic/Amer-Indian group that took over Site C that you are refering to?
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Date: 2003-08-02 10:46 pm (UTC)(I actually thought the drumming, which I assumed part of the birthday thing (I heard them singing happy birthday to someone) was appropriately brief, and not excruciatingly loud...the amplified singing from someplace across on the other side of the park later annoyed me more than that)
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Date: 2003-08-02 10:49 pm (UTC)