One Day Younger

Great Things that happened on 9/10/18

- Great progress on my work initiative.

- Thanks in large part to Carmen Pazos Hethmon for setting some stuff up quickly.
- Ran outside in the cooler weather.
- Beth and I went to Kroger after dinner.
- I went over to Orschein while Beth started on the groceries.
- I didn’t find what I wanted (bench anchors for Tom’s Eagle project) but I did get some good ideas from the guy who worked there.
- And more ideas from Andy Creighton.
- Beth, Tommy and I watched The Office before bed.

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Great things that happened 9/9/18

- Wrote a speech. That’s three since Chicago.
- Swam at the Y.
- Dinner with Beth, Tommy, Joe and Beth’s parents. Pasta bake and chocolate cake. It not only rhymed, it was delicious!
- Decided we won’t be traveling to our mill in Virginia this week. As a general rule I avoid traveling to the east coast when hurricanes are also traveling there (or near there).
- Took advantage of my newly open calendar and added a few tasks that needed to get off the “Someday/Maybe” list.

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Sometimes I get in a writing slump - maybe not full blown writers block, but at least a slow period. In those times I plow through. I go to my story files and keep plugging away. But it's hard work.

Then there are times like right now - the ideas and speeches and stories just flow. So I grab them all.

Great things flashback / Secret recipe - Grilled burgers

Originally posted Labor Day 2017:


Yesterday we had the family over for Labor Day dinner.  It was a feast.  I did the easy part:  Burgers and brats on the grill.  (Especially easy since we went with pre-cooked brats).


I fired up the grill and put the burgers and brats on.  I got the ground beef from Jungle Jim's.  It was 85/15.  That's the maximum fat I'm allowed, and the minimum fat needed to get some really good flames going on the grill.  I like the grill to look like a Burger King commercial.  And by that I mean one of the old ones where they showed fire.  I don't dress up like the creepy king.


I  use a hand press to make the patties.  I press half the patty down, then add some garlic and Worcestershire sauce.  I add the top half of the patty and press it again. 


That's pretty much it.  Not much of a secret when you get right down to it.

Great things flashback - September 2, 2017:

- Lunch with Chris and Donna Greene Malfara at Mon Ami.

- It was the first time I've been there since High School.

- It looks a lot better.

- And the food was great.

- Mom and dad and I went to Portage Resale - a store that raises money for local Ottawa County charities.

- I did my part - two steins and a board game. Because you can never have enough of either.

- We stopped at Bergman Orchards Rt. 269, and got peaches.

- Then we went to Kohl's.

- I got a 2017 Cleveland Browns calendar for a future vlog episode with Tommy Barth.

- Mom made tacos for dinner.

- Then I went down to Uncle Erv's old house, and mom's cousins helped me get a 107 year old rocking chair out of the garage attic.

- It was a baby gift to my grandma's mom (In 1910).

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