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I have Zucchini, where’s Astin when I need him?
My mom came in for a sneak visit today. Sneak in, get done what she wanted to accomplish and get out.
She’s commando like that!
So I picked her up from the airport before 9 and she dropped me off at the station so I could go on the air and continue to make a living. Her goal was to look at the tile samples I had gotten for her and compare them to the bathroom and kitchen to make “The Perfect Selection”*.
To my surprise my phone rang after an hour. I had to go on the air, do my job, take a long lunch to spend time with her so she knew I had until 1 before she was supposed to pick me up.
Why was she calling?
“You are a bachelor,” my mom said.
“What was your first hint? The toilet seat being up?”
She laughed, “What do you need from the store?”
“Well, since I go shopping on the 15th and the last day of the month usually, probably everything.”
“I’m already at the store picking you up odds and ends.”
Big Guy upstairs I Love my mom. Because she doesn’t ask, she just does.
So when she is ready to pick me up I have cases of water in the backseat of my car (that I had let her use) and she had already put the rest of the stuff up.
We headed off to the tile store and met Jeff Krueger of Carpet Solutions. One of my good friends and the man whenever I decide to get some more money put aside, is going to fix the shell of a 67 Mustang in my garage.
Mom finds the “Perfect Selection*” and I nod my head as if to say ‘It doesn’t suck’ but to be sure we bring it and a grout color selector back to the house. Jeff invited us to lunch and Mom couldn’t say no. We stopped by Garcia’s and had a nice lunch. I had never been to Garcia’s before and I was pleasantly surprised. I had the flour enchladas with cheese and they were incredible. The chips and hot sauce was very good. I stuck with water and trying my best not to get off that kick.
We headed to the house and examined the “Perfect Selection*” versus the two bordered tile. PERFECT!
So we headed back to the tile store, and I bought enough tile for the living room and the hall, 300 sq ft. Then I felt like I needed to check in. I had gotten permission to take a longer lunch, but I felt like I needed to get some work done and some face time in. So while mom read her book in my office, I got some paperwork and needed phone calls done. I felt like I had gotten alot accomplished so we headed back to the house to box up some stuff. Mom was great cause she had reorganized and cleaned the kitchen surprising me with a fridge full of water and fruit and veggies. Maybe she is trying to tell me something…
But the thing that made me laugh was that she had gotten me four zucchini. On the way to the airport tonight she told me about all the ways I could cook them.
But all I was thinking was a good recipe for Zucchini bread.
Is that wrong?
* (Mom is guaranteed to always make the Perfect Selection. Just ask your mom!)
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