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The April calendar kept Victoria very busy, and that includes me. Right after the delicious Lions Fish Fry on Friday, March 31st, held in Elstan Hall at St. Victoria, we were booked for another engagement next door at Father Bob White's house on Saturday, April 1st. No foolin'. As Fr. Bob has explained, he doesn't live with a cook, and so he helps provide for himself and others by hosting what he calls Bavarian Dinners. Some parishioners are invited to cook and serve the meal to other parishioners who are invited to eat it. When there are a dozen or so people at the dinner, it takes a couple hours to introduce ourselves and then it's time to go home. Thank you, Fr. Bob, for the fun evening. *** As you know, we were spoiled here in Victoria with those 80-degree days in March and so when temperatures dipped into the 40's and even 30's in April, we were disappointed to say the least. Even more disappointing, on one of those cold April days our furnace died. Toward evening, when I wanted to get the chill from my bones, I simply sat by the fireplace for a while. After a diagnosis on April 6th and a $13,000 expenditure for a new furnace, the heat came back on and maybe it'll keep the place warm for another 45 years. *** By April 10th I had our income taxes done and ready to bring to Paul Storms. From the beginning, I am the bookkeeper at our house. I get the mail, pay the bills, save receipts, keep things straight, and gather and tally the numbers. It's a pain. I don't enjoy it. To be more accurate, I hate bookkeeping. As with other unpleasant chores, however, the thinking of it is worse than the doing of it. Still, I put taxes off every year until the April Gazette is out. *** Daughter Jenny and family arrived from Tioga, ND, the night of April 12th and the next morning we drove to Marshall to see my parents for a couple days. You can read the details in this month's feature story. We were back home in Victoria for the weekend and Easter Sunday Mass together at St. Victoria. My ham was delicious. *** Back at St. Victoria on April 20th, we attended a choir party that evening in honor of Chuck and Carol Schmidt who quit the choir after a combined time of approximately 60 years attending weekly practices and singing at weekly weekend Masses and other special occasions. It was good to see them and many other choir members from over the years. It was a potluck dinner and sometimes that's when guests eat the best. Both quality and quantity of food dishes were above average -- just like the choir. *** The next evening, on Friday, April 21st, our son Nick and his wife Jen took us out for dinner to Malone's restaurant in Maple Grove. Of course, their little ones Sophie and Mia were included. After all, it was their Grandpa Al's very big birthday. Should I tell you that Allan turned 70 on April 20th? He and Cowboy Tom have the same birthday as Hitler and I like to add the same birthday as Mother Angelica, the nun who started the Eternal Word Television Network. Remember last year we traveled to visit EWTN down near Birmingham. *** On Saturday, April 22nd, we were at a birthday dinner party for the aforementioned Tom Stumpf, cowboy, choir member, and longtime columnist for the Victoria Gazette. He is 63 now, retired (in an official manner of speaking) and one happy camper. Thank you, Tom and Patti, for the fun evening, fantastic food, and your specialty birthday cakes. The three pounds I lost during Lent, returned. *** The worst day of the month was Monday, April 24th, since it ended with a five-hour city workshop and council meeting. I can't say that I've ever "enjoyed" attending city council meetings, but now it's worse. The ugliness that reared its head in Victoria isn't getting prettier. Details are reported as usual in the City Scoop pages of the Gazette. Some of it is simply unbelievable -- except I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. Much of it you won't find anywhere else -- except if you submit to the torture of a five-hour video. I will continue to attend and report on those proceedings here in the Victoria Gazette for the sake of transparency and truth in this historical record of Victoria, Minnesota. *** The last two April events included the very successful Victoria Lions Spring Fling on April 28th, and then dinner at Houlihan's on April 30th with our friends Lloyd and Rosalie Pauly of Chanhassen. Yeah, food! Yeah, friends! Yeah, April! Yeah, May! Yeah, Mother's Day! Yeah, Spring! As Mike Wartman's family used to chant, "Go, Victoria! Go, Victoria! Go! Go! Go!" |
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May 2017 |
