6/14/13

In hindsight, a broiling summer day along I-25 might not have been the very best place for Gladys to set up her Hot Chocolate Stand as she'd only had one taker all afternoon and that person requested ice water... 

It's a little-known fact that future Olympic Gold Medal Figure Staking Champion Dorothy Hamel initially learned how to perform double loop and single axel jumps by striving to avoid stepping into the sizable mounds of dog doo found in her backyard, courtesy of Mopsy and Sheldon.

Skeptics may have laughed behind the Elmwood Mohawks basketball team's back, but Archibald made more baskets during a given game than his other four teammates combined!

That first year or two that Marcella attended the Roundwood Academy of Interior Design didn't begin to demonstrate the later talent that she would show, once she graduated, when decorating various vending machine alcoves and prison changing rooms.

Such uproarious frivolity as cramming the three of themselves onto a Man in the Moon platform for a photograph at the annual Bristlecreek Fair was not reason enough for Agatha, Millicent or Sybil Ann to crack a smile.

What Hortense couldn't possibly know as she set out for her fourth 9-hole golf game of the week was that Harry had gone around previously to all the residents along the course and arranged to pay for each of their broken windows and damaged home furnishings left in her wake.

Fern and Oliver Moss enjoyed bringing little Leif to the place where they originally met and fell in like thirty years prior, the lunch room of Joseph of Bethlehem Elementary.