5/23/13

The 82nd Annual Founder's Day Parade was only moments from beginning and Rosalind was frantic that her mother wanted her to pose for a snapshot at this ill-timed juncture.  Cranberry Grove was desperate for her red carpet commentary on all the floats and parade participants!

Too many people were fooled by this photo of the Norrises into thinking that they were actually athletic.  Those in the know realized that Sandra and Chuck never made it past three lobs in a row, that Skip wore a nose plug in order to submerge beneath the water and that Alan had only made four baskets in two years of playing!

Helena found out in the most vivid and unforgettable way that her roommate Melba had entertained a gentleman caller the night before when she pulled back the shower curtain to ask "Melba" if she could borrow her eyelash curler.

Todd understood it to a point when no one believed his story that Chim-Chim had blinked his eyes at him the previous morning, but it unsettled him greatly when he found out that no one believed that Chim-Chim was now making subtle threats to his safety and even hinting at bodily assault!

Even though it seemed to happen every time, Marjorie could never understand why Aunt Tonja and Uncle Carl felt the need to leave whenever she and her father launched into their vocal & accordion rendition of "Under the Yum Yum Tree."

No other year end festivity ever compared to the ebullient stage show that Cy and Verna Pendlebaum put on at the Fairview American Legion Hall every December 31st at 6:45 pm.

Tasty, blissfully unaware, had no reason to complain at this time that Suzanne seemed bent on fattening him up.