1. After reading the chapters on the American Revolution in the book, The Mosquito, I wondered, as the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of declaring independence, if anyone is planning to commemorate the role of the mosquito in decimating British troops and making USA victory possible (along with help from the French and Spanish and other factors).
2. Debbie imagined a mashed carrot dish and gave fixing it a very successful whirl. She boiled carrots, mashed them, added butter and half and half, and spiced them up with a couple of chopped poblano peppers. She might have salted this dish, too. I don't remember.
Bottom line: it was out of sight.
3. Reading today about the rebels' decisive and war changing victory at Yorktown in 1781 called up fun memories, took me back to March of 2017, when Debbie and I spent a couple of nights in Yorktown, paid Jamestown a visit, sampled excellent beers in the Yorktown area, visited a Revolutionary War museum in Yorktown, and enjoyed a great dinner at a restaurant called Fat Tuna Grill and Oyster House. Mom had given us money for our birthdays a few months earlier with instructions to enjoy a dinner out on her, and did we ever enjoy bourbon, oysters on the half shell, gorgeous, sweet shrimp, and tender calamari.
We didn't know it at the time that we'd be moving to Kellogg in September of 2017.
Over that weekend, I was feeling very happy that we'd made this great trip and looked forward to more excursions south of Maryland. Before this, all of our trips had been north to New Jersey and New York or out to Indiana and Illinois. I'd traveled by myself to Massachusetts.
We made the right decision to move to Kellogg, but rereading my blog posts about our weekend in Yorktown tugged at my nostalgic heart and I dreamed about returning to the East Coast for fun trips again. That might happen. In the meantime, though, I'll focus on what's here in the Silver Valley and the Inland Empire in my present and see how things in the unknown future work out.
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