Hello on Friday Morning

Dear Friends,



Our Thursday went as planned.



Linda enjoyed the almost 8 hours of peace and quiet when I was gone from the house working the Pasta Fund Raiser. I arrived at the Italian American Club at 1 PM to see if they needed help setting up the hall. I got to the club about the same time that the head chef arrived with all the food products. The head chef for this event is one of my UNICO brothers. He and his wife are the people who organized the PHS French Club fundraiser since they have a son going on the trip to France during the April vacation.

Whenever you work one of these events, you never know how many people whom you are cooking for. I set the hall up for 160. Well, we ended up with close to 200 people. Three or four of us UNICO guys were in the kitchen doing what each of us do best. I didn’t realize that they didn’t need servers because the French students were assigned that task.

I was the runner. I had to check to see if they needed more pasta, meatballs (they were homemade), and salad, and bread on the buffet line. The mom and dad’s of the students provided some excellent homemade desserts. When I got home from the event, I was so tired that I went to bed.



Today we are leaving Pittsfield at 1 PM. Linda, a friend, whose husband is on a business trip, and I will be departing from Pittsfield at 1 PM. We have decided to go directly to East Boston to visit with our grandchild, and his mom and dad. We are going to have supper from our son’s restaurant in East Boston. When our grandchild heads off to bed for the evening, usually around 7:30 PM, we will head off to the Brodeur’s, who live in Tewksbury, which is where we will be staying for Friday and Saturday night. We mentally have our Saturday all set, but we are flexible if things change.



The weather this winter has been really crazy. Atlanta is getting 3 to 5 inches of snow right now, and we get only a dusting from the last mid Atlantic storm. Places like Washington, D.C. and Baltimore have record snow fall amounts, yet we in Massachusetts have had a below normal snow total. We also have been stuck in a cold spell with highs in the 20’s for a good portion of the winter. The cold air has been blocking any attempt of the snow reaching our area. The weather channel says that we will reach a high no greater than 27 degrees today. Do you think the people in Washington, D.C. believe in Global warming?

The people in Vancouver, where the Olympic Ceremony will be held this evening, might believe in Global Warming since they had to truck in tons of snow for one of the venues. Vancouver has been very similar to our snow starved region in the Northeast.



Observation – Our radio talk show host friend has one of those Toyota hybrid cars. He said that before the recall, he was having problems with his new car. He said that when he applied the brakes, the car would make a loud banging noise. He took the car to the dealer a couple of times, but they couldn’t find anything wrong with the car.

I can still hear the sad interview with a lady whose husband got killed in a car crash due to a faulty system in their Toyota. When the police investigated the accident, it was determined to be driver error, well not anymore. How about all those car crashes in parking decks when the people claimed sudden acceleration was the cause, We all laughed at the pictures, and concluded that it was an error by the driver, I will bet that the crash could have been caused by the defects in the car.

Can you imagine the numerous law suits of all the people who have been in accidents while driving defective Toyota products? I want to know how long that Toyota knew of the problem before they “came clean.”



Well, today is the start of the weekend.

Valentines Day is on Sunday.

The Queen has already made plans with another couple to go out Sunday night to one of those places which has a dinner show. How could I say “No” since it is Valentines Day?

This means that we leave Tewksbury no later than noon on Sunday. When we get home, we drop our bags off and relax for a couple of hours, and then head out the door once again.

Mold, mildew, and moss can never grow on our shoes because we are never in one place long enough for the stuff to grow.



Have a great weekend!

I hope that yours is less hectic than ours. The Curley Lad