The 109th LVCS alumni dinner was a success. Ed's "remarks" were the hit of the evening. Even his mother would have enjoyed the details and his delivery.

We learned that kindergarten started at LVCS to get Ed off his mother's hands, that his sixth-grade class started a stampede of Carl Fuss's milk cows on a field trip, that Mr. Jedrzejek made his driver's ed students start a standard shift car from a dead stop halfway up Mill Street in the middle of winter. If you visit Mark's blog, you can hear the speech. Bravo Ed!

Jim did some sneaky reporting, trying to get the LVCS Lunch Ladies to help him win a "Lunch Menu Bingo," Martha almost won a hanging basket, and we all walked home through the cemetery without getting lost.

That was last night. Today started with breakfast at Dinas and the requisite familiy photo. I'll give you two, just to prove that I was there.

And now it's time to eat again: Martha's rosemary potato salad (no mayo), Mark's mesquite-wine chicken (done on the grill in the garage, because we're in the middle of a monsoon right now), a blueberry pie that we're trying to resurrect from the freezer, and Martha's Nieman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies (a recipe Mother found at the nursing home). Cindy and I managed the cheese and crackers.