We didn’t have a dinner plan for the fam tonight, at least not a home made one. I’ve been craving Chinese takeout for a while so I suggested that and it was a go. Little Cat Z collected everyone’s preferences and made a LIST!

Besides being an uber-organized person in general, she has a lot of experience making lists of what people want at restaurants. When the beach urchins were small (my kids and their first and/or second cousins) and we were at the moomincabin, I would often pack them into the Exxon Tanker Valdez (Chrysler mini-van) and take them over the back roads to Clyde’s Drive-In on the St. Marys River, where we could watch freighters go by while eating. Or we could get to-go food and take it over to “Goose Poop Park” (aka Rotary Park) where there was playground equipment.

We always took cafeteria trays with us and clean wet washcloths. Clyde’s is loverly but quite greasy. When Little Cat Z got old enough to write a coherent, easily readable list, her task became taking orders from everyone in the van and making a list on our way there. So when we got to Clyde’s, we could just read off the list or even hand it to the waitress.

Here’s the 2011 Mean Green Frog Hoppin’ Musheen at Clyde’s back in the day. The St. Marys River and Sugar Island Ferry are out of view behind me. And by this time there were no beach urchins in the car. They were all graduated from college and off on their own adventures in their own vee-hickles.

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