Start BBQing!!!

Winter is just finishing up with us. And Spring is close, which means BBQing! Leah has kept us busy, so no Winter BBQing... Next year.

We are talking about Easter and I said I would BBQ! Then I get static, Ham is for Easter (History of Easter Ali)... blah blah blah; How 'bout Brined Turkey (Tree hugging Liz)... blah blah blah. Nope, I think a nice BOSTON BUTT fills the bill!

And Tree hugging Liz (I have not forgot about the Coach Squirrel comparison), how come Mother Earth loves Cows and Pigs and does not want them to become tasty BBQ! BUT, Mother Earth apparently thinks turkeys and chickens are fowl (little BBQ joke). Even Sofy wants you to have beef (and Easter Boston Butt).

As for Leah, she is already making all kinds of sounds and noises in a low voice along side your own voice when you talk. I had my suspicions she would have her Momma's high intellect, and imagine soon the conversations will go like the above caption.
Leah loves to talk along with Karen, so I'm sure it's a matter of time before... “David, the grilled cheese is tepid (Karen). Yes Father, this is a culinary calamity and my apple juice is simply insipid (Leah).”

Leah and Lawrence

It's saturday night and Leah has a little head cold. The Doctor says nothing to worry about, but she is unhappy about this new experience.

So I find myself trying to comfort a stuffy nosed baby and nothing on television other than a 2 hour Lawrence Welk Show (a PBS fund raising special). Well, it is upbeat music that a baby might like.

As the Champagne Orchestra plays on and brightly costumed people twirl about, I am wondering how I arrived at this point in my life?

It seems to work, warm blankets and wide lapel - pastel clad polka dancers.

And then it hits home... one of those moments in life when it all comes together. I am holding Leah... the Lawrence Welk Show finishes a dance number... PBS goes to a fund raising break, and there is a guy volunteering to take calls for donations. A guy about my age, giving up a Saturday night to fund raise. So into this cause is he, that he decides to show up wearing his Commander Riker (Star Trek Next Generation) uniform.

Commander Riker of the USS Enterprise is fund raising for the Lawrence Welk Show on PBS... Life is clear to me now, I am one with the Universe.

I am not sure Leah feels the same way.