When I woke up today I fully expected the GG to head north to his ugly brother’s house and then to the yooperland. That was what the plan was yesterday, at least. This morning? I think I’ll postpone until tomorrow. Okay. That’s okay but… If you wanna eat, you have to let me know when you’re gonna beeee here. Luckily I had made an impulse two-pork chop purchase the other day so I pulled those outta the freezer. But also, our city and even our neighborhood are far from being a food desert. Plum Market and Aldi and numerous restaurants are easily accessible.

So today was a work day instead. Yes, he is running the snowblower. I have other pics of him raking and filling compost carts for weekly pickup, which only happens in the “warm” months. I’m being facetious here. Today was a pretty warm day but it’s been a cold spring.

At some point, mouse posted a rather inscrutable photo and the GG could not process it.

“Is that mouse’s bike?” he asked. “Zoom in on the bottle,” I replied. “Degreaser and cleanser” and there is a bike chain there. Yes it’s her bike. What did he think?

The next thing I knew, he had retrieved his e-Bike from the Landfill Dungeon. The NEXT thing I knew, I had a phone call from one of his brothers. Brother had called the GG’s phone but the GG hadn’t answered his phone (because he was riding his e-Bike) so somehow it got routed to me. I had a GREAT time talking to his brother. We don’t see him all that often. We all have adult children and this brother has grandchildren scattered around the country. The talk veered to politics and it was a breath of fresh air to talk to someone about our hatred of Trump despite what some of our relatives might think. Make no mistake. Every branch of every family I belong to has people who don’t agree with me. And people who do. How do we still get along? I do not know but we do. It’s moments like this afternoon’s phone call that help. You are not alone.

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