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Vote Early—Vote Often

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The Electorate Has Spoken – Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash

Yesterday, Anne and I voted early. It used to be that a valid excuse was required to vote early. Anne always had one, since she is a poll judge. I was usually forced to lie that I would be out-of-town. Then in the year of covid, a new excuse was added, fear of getting sick. After that the need for an excuse was dropped. There was a good turnout at the closest poll, in downtown Clayton. So good that we couldn’t park in the library’s garage. The line wasn’t long, but the ballot was.

We have no big elections. The only statewide office is for auditor. Our Democratic congressman is running unopposed. But there were quite a few ballot issues to vote on. Most of these were put up by the Republicans, so I voted against those. After voting, I saw a sign that said that the library lends out telescopes. I put my name in to check out one. Something to look forward to.

After performing our civic duties, we went to Ivy Cafe for lunch. Ivy is known for their tartines and we each ordered one. Anne had the Meramec, sushi-grade pan-seared Norwegian salmon, tomatoes, cucumber, feta, capers, and mediterranean sauce. While I had the Delmar, strip steak, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, mozzarella, horseradish drizzle, and herbs.

Winter is Coming

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Garden’s Bounty

Hard freezes expected tonight and tomorrow night. When we left St. Louis last week it was a hundred there. It’s cooler now, but this summer there were 200 days from the first ninety degree day to the last. This hot weather makes us climate refugees. Today, I was ordered from sunny LA to harvest the garden and drain the water barrel and batten down the hatches. Mission accomplished! Three grandparents versus two grandchildren and we seem to be holding our own.

Declan had mini all stars today and it was a hoot. Today’s sport was football, American style. The best part was when they played flag football. There were only four kids in the class, three boys and one girl and the girl was the best player. When she ran away and all the boys chased her.

Stove Shield™

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Stove Shield™

As seen advertised on TV, YouTube TV that is, I give you the Stove Shield™. As the end of the month approaches and all of my streaming offering dry up, I frequently fallback on YouTube. I think that this month I might have lost my soul to YouTube. This polytetrafluoroethylene or more commonly known as Teflon™ coated fiberglass mat is designed to protect your stove from grease, gravy and other food spills that may occur while stovetop cooking. Able to withstand temperatures of 500 °F, it is supposed to make cleanup a breeze. Wash it in your sink. Each mat is individually tailored to the make and model of your stove. Which makes me wonder why the vendor offers a buy two get one free deal? Holiday cooking season is just around the corner, a great opportunity to test it out. I had to clean the stove in order to install the mat, which kind of defeated the whole idea of getting it. Anyway, it looks nice. It comes with a warning. Use of this shield may produce harmful fumes. Do not place birds near this product when in use. No canaries in the coal mine, thank you very much.

Deep Fried Oreo Cookies

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We finally left the cabin today. On our way south, we passed a couple of circus truck that were also headed south. Around Flint a bunch more were rendezvoused at a rest stop. I got a picture of this fried Oreo food truck. This dessert intrigued me and I looked it up and got a screen shot of one above. Fast forward to Ann Arbor. On our final approach Anne discovered that a restaurant in town serves this dessert, the Black Pearl. After dinner at Grizzly Peak, we walked over there and got an order to share with Harry. He seemed to enjoy it and Anne after repeatedly telling me not to get one for her. She ate it anyway and liked, but is still too prideful to admit it.