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We went out for dinner on Thursday to celebrate our 33rd wedding anniversary.\u00a0 Having been to our current top-choice restaurant in Columbus in the last two weeks, we decided to go further afield.\u00a0 So we drove up to Tupelo and ate at the Blue Canoe.\u00a0 I had pot roast on corn bread waffle.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s an official entr\u00e9e, not something I dreamed up.\u00a0 It was good.\u00a0\u00a0 They had live music for a little bit.\u00a0 It was just starting up as we were finishing.\u00a0 It was a man and woman playing fiddle and guitar and singing old-style country.\u00a0 I didn’t recognize the song.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a nice evening.<\/p>\n
We have a beer aficionado in the house, one bottle per day.\u00a0 So we stopped at the fancy beer store in Tupelo before we left town.\u00a0 I used to be able to pick out something she would like, but her taste took a turn a year or so ago and I can no longer predict what she might like.\u00a0 So I mostly stay out of that.<\/p>\n
I grew up in a strict no-alcohol environment and that probably was good for me.\u00a0 My own views are more lenient and I think I can make an argument for my position.\u00a0 But I give the generation before mine some credit for their position.\u00a0 A lot of pain and heart ache is avoided to just skip the whole scene from the beginning.\u00a0 At one point, just on the edge of living memory, we had a complete national prohibition.\u00a0\u00a0 Mississippi removed complete state prohibition in 1966 and just recently started to allow local micro-brewery operations in the state.<\/p>\n
We seem to be in a more licentious age now and I expect to see marijuana become legal at some point more or less everywhere.\u00a0 And most people won’t care but some will fall into that hole who wouldn’t have done so if it were still illegal.\u00a0 That doesn’t mean the legalization is right or wrong: people still have to control their own activities.\u00a0 It just means a barrier goes down and a few people will waltz into trouble who might have balked when they feared jail, or even a ticket.\u00a0 And that’s not to speak of the car wrecks and such.<\/p>\n
Anyway.\u00a0 On to what I really wanted to talk about.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure how we got on this subject, but my wife asked me if I had any special requests about my disposition after my demise.\u00a0 And I remembered I mentioned on here a few months ago that I like that little spot in Pleasant Hill cemetery, shady, and scenic, etc.\u00a0 But I decided not to say that.\u00a0 I really don’t want to have someone dragging me hundreds of miles.\u00a0 It’s a burden that isn’t worth the trouble.\u00a0 I told her it was up to whoever is in charge at the time.<\/p>\n
I still feel like Iowa is my home.\u00a0 (We’ve talked about that before too.\u00a0 She disagrees.)\u00a0 I like going back to the Iowa State Fair.\u00a0 And I feel at home in the old house.\u00a0 I wouldn’t mind moving back to Iowa even though it may never happen.\u00a0 I liked Colorado for it’s scenic value; it symbolizes adventure in my mind.\u00a0 And I like Mississippi because it has seen the revival of health in my family.\u00a0 But I’m not from here.<\/p>\n
My wife really likes Mississippi and I like being where she is at.\u00a0 So we both get something we like.<\/p>\n
As I’ve gotten older my understanding of my parents has changed.\u00a0 One of the interesting things I contemplate about my mother is that she has lived pretty much her whole life in the same place.\u00a0 Not in the same house but within shooting distance of where the old house used to be.\u00a0 She gets the wanderlust frequently, and likes to go on day-long car trips every month or so and a longer vacation about once a year (maybe more often than that).\u00a0 They are getting older and slowing down a little bit.\u00a0 But I hope she can keep travelling for a long time and enjoy it.\u00a0 Her model isn’t a bad one:\u00a0 have a solid base and go on excursions.<\/p>\n
I’m kind of a backward looking person and I have to put effort into counting my current blessings and looking ahead.\u00a0 So maybe I’m in a bit of that mood.\u00a0 Maybe that’s kind of an excursion too:\u00a0 what might have been different, etc.<\/p>\n
We have plans to go tent camping in August in Moraine Park Campground, for the first time in 22 years. I probably won’t be throwing frisbee in the road or drinking hot Tang.\u00a0 I may find a way to fry up some canned potatoes.\u00a0 I’ll need to quit day-dreaming and see if the old tent is still serviceable.\u00a0 I did sleep in that tent in 2009 in the Long’s Peak campground for one night.\u00a0 So maybe I’m not completely out of practice.\u00a0 That’s an excursion I’m looking forward to.<\/p>\n
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