EARLY BASEBALL
Contrary to popular belief, baseball did not originate in America with Abner Doubleday. It originated in Salzburg in the 1700s. Ha! Just kidding. Credit to Felipe Flores of Naugatuck, Connecticut for remarking such a Bart Hawe witticism on the spot.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Towards the end of my college days I spent a summer working the Alpine Slide at the Stowe Mountain Resort. It had all the makings of a cheesy 1980s movie. Outdoors, summer job, young people, drinking, parties, new people coming and going each week or day (the tourists). The Stowe track was concrete and the carriers were on wheels that could, could, leave the track if you took a curve fast enough. And what a great way to end your workday (if you were working the top). You'd hop on a 'sled' and ride the track down to your car! Well over Labor Day weekend we stayed at the Edelweiss Lodge in Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
CHILDREN’S TOYS
Until the end of my days our Pinehurst home will haunt me. It was everything. It was new, it had custom detail like crown molding, it had space for everyone, it had luxury well beyond what one needs or expects from a home. And one of those things was the new LG front loading washer and dryer I purchased when we moved into the home as the first owners. When compiling my due diligence on washers and dryers, size was a factor. As a family of five I do not enjoy doing 28 loads of laundry a week. The chances of giving one of our children up for adoption remains a low probability--around 5%. That leaves two remaining...
