But, we still have friends in Fort Dodge and like to see them sometimes also.This week, we’re spending some time here in our RV and, because it’s our ‘free’ day, we invited some to breakfast with us. Val is a class mate of ours from the fine graduating class of 1968 while Don, her husband is from the class behind us. Val and I were good friends in high school and had several classes together in college but haven’t had much contact since them. Some other friends in common come to Iowa each Memorial Day and have dinner with Val annually. I just got in on this in the last few years and thoroughly enjoy our Memorial Day trips down memory lane.
We had breakfast at a local restaurant along with great conversation. A fun time. Don is a local real estate agent and told us several stories about some of his experiences with potential clients. In one case a couple had a small home with large red velvet drapes overwhelming a small living room. As he was wondering how to tell them that those beautiful drapes might not show the house at its best, they piped up telling him that they wanted to take the drapes with them. Whew, he thought as he told them that they should take them down right now before any potential buyers came and wanted those beautiful red velvet drapes included in their purchase. Whew. His biggest problem is not the laws and regulations of housing but handling people’s expectations.
Afterwards we made one of our many trips to Menards to buy a new toilet seat and several other items and then toured the town to see what is going on in Fort Dodge.
What do you do in a campground when it raining steadily? We’ve been watching the campground fill up over the last few days, glad that the campground is popular and that others enjoy it as much as we are. However, the forecast is for rain on Saturday and Sunday and what do kids do when it’s raining in the campground: fish, swim, boat, bike? Hmmm. Nope, you go to the faucet on the shower/bathroom, fill a bucket, carry it over to the road and dump it in a low spot so you have a puddle. Then you can stomp in it.
Or else, you stand in the puddle, shift your feet and talk to those who are finding cover under the roof of the shower/bathroom.
Jack came over for dinner bearing gifts: ice cream for all of us and his famous ‘Jack’s Blueberry Surprise’ dessert. But first we headed out to Applebees for dinner. Actually Jack had given us some gift cards for Applebees for Christmas and we could think of no better way to use them than by treating him out to dinner. Afterwards we returned to the RV for some ice cream and the blueberry surprise. Now, Jack begins with a box of blueberry muffins from the store then he begins adding ingredients, like a stick of margarine and some cranberries and - well, here is his recipe.
He actually wrote it down so we could go online to tell him how many calories were in it. You can see my calorie count off to the left hand side. Jack insisted that the margarine had only 100 calories but then we explained the difference between ‘serving’ and whole stick: that this was probably for a serving and, since a serving was 1 T and that the stick had 8 T’s in it, there was a grand total of 800 calories in one stick. Whoo-eee.
This Blueberry Surprise is RICH to say the least. Jack left shortly after this little math exercise - I think we took second place to the NASCAR race that was on TV.
Hmmm. Lug would rather not have us around since we disturb his patterns and Jack would rather watch a NASCAR race. Luckily we have thick skins.
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