{"id":31486,"date":"2022-02-12T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=31486"},"modified":"2022-02-12T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T20:13:04","slug":"the-more-it-stays-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=31486","title":{"rendered":"…the more it stays the same…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, weatherwise, anyway, though “the same” might not be exactly appropriate insofar as<\/p>\n

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though no records were being broken for warm weather in February* records for sustained and dry might be another story.\u00a0 If anyone’s telling stories.\u00a0 Meanwhile with more than a little help from Scott Zoog the pond was drained [though the outside electrical problems persisted<\/p>\n

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despite many efforts**] as I continued, for stories, to rely on Eve when not obsessing<\/p>\n

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over “Shetland” until we ran out of episodes or trying to interpolate local lore from local hints.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the locality went its own little way with a wino-chocolate weekend though<\/p>\n

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with scant chocolate in evidence it did bring up the question of Why, in such an aspiring destination-ary town, we don’t have a decent chocolatier or two to fall back on.<\/p>\n

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Nobody knows why though I did, after a mere 21 years,<\/p>\n

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“discover” a way to circumnavigate the shoreline from farthest West H back to the bottom<\/p>\n

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of West Second, thanks,<\/p>\n

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and thanks to Lucca Wednesday evening<\/p>\n

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for not only a wet blandburger***, fish and chips good for the first bite, but wine and service good enough to make it a swell night out for us, the desperate, despite.<\/p>\n

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*By the time this posted records were being broken daily.<\/p>\n

** Scott was back after the weekend and he and L. got it all sorted out most successfully…<\/p>\n

*** A burger lusciously described [and in former times actually quite good] but pathetically executed.\u00a0 It was also discovered that the menu’s “steak cut fries” is currently a euphemism for soggy sliced potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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