GATHERING GROUND REPORT - MAY 8, 2024
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| Bill, Chet, Jerry |
May is bringing on the flowers following the early rains in April. Flowering trees are along all the local highways to Windsor Locks and back to home.
Today brought Jerry, Chet and Bill to the table to enjoy the
highly rated breakfast treats from the Gathering Ground. My Bacon, Egg
and Cheddar on a hard roll actually had toooo much bacon. Bill decided
to help out with the overload as he added an extra slice to his scrambled and
bacon dish.
Chet, should have warned the rest of us to bring sunglasses into restaurant to shield from your blaze orange sweatshirt. I hope that was on sale!!
Jerry was spotted in Westfield Agway by Mark Galica. A blast from the past and a great encounter to share some stories about the old MSD/HSD/IS/IT memories. Mark has a place on the cape and spends his summers enjoying the air/water/lobster at the Cape. The Lobster is provided by his efforts because he has several traps that he puts out to collect his summer dinner enjoyment. Nice gig on the Cape!!
Bill shared the highlights of his trip to South Carolina and the mechanical troubles he had with his 50 year old convertable that he chose to do his transport for the trip. Apparently the rear bearing seal started leaking on the way home and progressively leaked more oil during the several stops he made on his way. He saw the check engine light several times, letting him know that more oil was needed to keep the engine from seizing while headed back to Ct. After many quarts of oil from several stops he finally found a U-Haul place and rented a truck(large) and car trailer to finish the trip. Large trucks and one-way rental left him a little broke but he was able to get it to a shop in Bloomfield that fixed the problem and get his convertible back on the road leaving no oil line running along the double yellow !! See the UHaul rig in picture:
Chet shared what he was wearing to make us comfortable that there was no clandestine intent by his being wired while sitting next to us at the breakfast table. The external heart monitor was recently installed by his local hospital to see how his ticker was keeping its rhythm. Funny how our bodies that we always seemed to not pay attention to, now require some help to keep us upright!
Jerry recently had the need to send a first class letter to Canada and found that the US stamps are not such a bad deal at even the recent increased price when First Class to Canada is $1.50. and that's USD.
Chet reports a new Polish restaurant that has recently opened in West Springfield and is getting rave reviews. No name at this time and a Google search does not reveal its name but Chet is on assignment to discover and report the full review for next month.
Bill ran into lunchtime runner John Turback. No one at this table recognized the name but according to Bill, he was one of the elite 5 minute mile lunch time runners along with Tim D'Valve. Jerry reports that he can double that time now....easy!
Your Scribe
Jerry
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THE WORK OF SQUIRRELS
"We
plant pansies in our dining area window boxes in October to give us something
pretty to look at during the winter months. The squirrels have a bad habit of
burying acorns in the pots for future use. In the spring they try to find them,
digging holes in the pots around the pansies. Sometimes they find them;
sometimes they don’t. This one got away. Looks like a white oak to me." ~ from Larry Quillen
