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No longer on the river and, again, an empty nester. Back to living on Fleming Island and making some more friends!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

No perch???

Here it is, late Friday night and Manitowoc has rolled up the sidewalks. We did have some excitement, however, causing the youngest among us to scatter into the streets. While Kerry, Alayna, Justin, Mom and I watched "Julie and Julia" rented from the Red Box (Kerry watched with her eyes closed...) I heard the sound of sirens close by, right about the same time I smelled smoke. At first no one else did and then suddenly, the two youngest people ran outside and Kerry not far behind, after we saw the smoke pouring over the parking lot. Mom went to get her shoes on in case we were told to evacuate. I went down the hall, with the phone in my hand, calling Jill on the 2nd floor. She heard the sirens and smelled the smoke, as her scanner reported a structure fire on 12th street. WE are on 12th street!!!
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The young people that ran outside went different directions so they lost sight of Alayna, but Kerry and Justin could see much. It seems there was a fire in an apartment over the typical Manitowoc corner bar, and they even saw a man being taken away in the ambulance. Oh no! Kerry was now wide awake and running up and down the city streets, chasing fire trucks. Once all were back upstairs, they told me I would have hated it out there, due to the cold and blowing snow. It was not a nice night out there at all, and then a fire on top of it all!
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We all had dinner at Time Out, our standard entire family gathering place which accomodates large numbers of people. Mom is not crazy about it because there is noise factor there but it is okay for that period of time. After all, it is a sports' bar. Here is the bad news, I had not had my first taste of perch since getting here and they were out of perch!!! What??? No perch??? How did this happen? Mom and Lynn seemed to believe because we were there 'late' (at 6:30 or so) the perch was sold out. Of course, 6:30 is not late for Justin or me but many of these folks normally eat very early, or much earlier, than do we. I settled for the cod and the waitress assured me she would bring something else if I did not like the cod. It was alright, not wonderful like perch, but alright, and I ate two of the six or seven cubes of cod.
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I should back up a little here----yesterday, Thursday was a lost day for me, the day after the funeral. During the night Wednesday, I woke up to a tugging sensation from inside my tummy, in the vicinty of my belly button. Oh no, again! Before long I was wearing a path in the carpet across the hall to the bathroom, grabbing a Tupperware container to use as an emises basin. Yikes! I was concerned that others who ate the funeral dinner or the soup/sandwich meal at First German were sick, too, but it seems only me who got sick. I cannot recall the last time I was sick in this fashion and it did not please me. The entire day was spent resting and running, so today, extreme caution was taken as far as ingestion was concerned. I had no strength to brush my teeth yesterday, it was all I could do to hold my brush up that long. Today, I accomplished it nicely. Whew! Hopefully that brief illness is behind me!
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I am having troubles with this computer tonight so perhaps I will let it rest and finish the story in the morning, or the afternoon, once I have Justin delivered to the airport. I will torture him by getting him there well before his flight because I am neurotic that way. Someday, he will thank me! Good night, all, and watch for updates!

5 comments:

Suzanne Chappell said...

Well, I suppose it's a "good" thing that you're staying so long, and you'll get the chance to get some perch. What I want to know, and maybe you could find some to bring home, or ship it if possible.. WHAT in the world is cheese curds?

I hope the person transported int he ambulance isn't too badly hurt! So scary!

Blowing snow! Yuck! it's been cold and drizzly here today, and we're not liking it. I wanted to go to the fair grounds to see the Scottish Games, but not in the cold rain!

I'm playing in church tomorrow, so I'll be thinking of you, and missing you.

Hugs!

Kim Lahaie Day said...

Hi Suzanne!

Sorry to hear your weather is yucky...today is not so bad out there, plenty of sunshine.

Cheese curds are very very fresh cheese 'remains', in an almost ball-shape, then deep fried. Not always, good to eat unfried as well. Kerry brought some fresh from the dairy yesterday that still squeeked when we bit into it!

My understanding was the injured man had first and second-degree burns but that is all I know. He alerted the folks in the bar about the fire first.

I will be thinking of your playing tomorrow as I worship once more with my first church family and enjoy a pancake breakfast later!

Missing you, too!

Kim

Suzanne Chappell said...

I suppose only in Wisconsin could you get 'fresh cheese remains". Sounds good!

Kim Lahaie Day said...

I will try to bring some for you to sample!

Darla said...

Kim, I really miss reading your blog everyday! Glad that the fire and smoke was not any worse....Also I hope you get some Perch soon!

Enjoy your visit Kim! Looking forward to the next post!