GATHERING GROUND REPORT - JULY 9, 2025
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| Dave Ewbank, Bill Wills, Pete Gottschalk, Bart Nixon |
Bart is up from his Florida home for the summer, guess it's warm enough to allow his golf game to continue in Connecticut.
Bart has endeavored to refurbish a few components of his Simsbury residence. New windows(all of them), replacing some distressed siding and then covering the entire house with a new coat of paint(long overdue was the phase I heard).
Some comparison of insurance policies was discussed, bundling was very common, this allowed a substantial saving overall. USAA, Amica, Travelers and AAA. A mixed bag choice for a mixed reason. Cost was one big driver.
Jerry did have a recent claim for homeowners. After a hail
storm with roof damage, a complete shingle replacement along with 9 skylights,
the financial damage was only the $1000 deductible for $30K of repair
work.
Bart's doctor seems to be listening to the evening news and prescribing most of the current pharmaceuticals as seen on the news that we have to endure over and over each evening.
"Hot sauce Dave" got some discussion about the dining out experiences while lunching at HSD. One memory was the time a group went to the GreenDoor restaurant in Enfield. Dave ordered a dish that was served on a metal plate heated to sizzle when the contents touched the very hot metal surface. The contents of the dish were so hot (SPICY)that the result was a gas cloud so lethal that the experience was very similar to a gas chamber exposure when I was in boot camp, but without the gas mask!! Everyone ducked down as the cloud came over the table and descended onto the group at the table. Dave was non paused with his dish present, he proceeded to serve and enjoy it!!
Tom, DIck and Harry topic came around with remembrance about Tom Woodruff, DIck Wright and Harry Doughtie renting a house on Lake Congamond. Many parties were held at this address. Bill piped in remembering when he posted a letter to Tom, Dick and Harry with only Suffield Ct in the address field. It was delivered to the surprise of all.
Credit freeze was discussed as an easy way to prevent ID theft and avoid going through a recovery process that is ugly and tedious. Easy to do only with one or all of the Credit consumer reporting agencies like Equifax, etc.
Your Scribe,
Jerry
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The building is in the parking lot for HSD building Three. No signage yet to show what business is inside |
