Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. Next stop? The 4th of July.
Your Mom and I got to meet great-grandson Julian (Keely’s 6 month old son) who was visiting with him Mom from Ohio. Julian is a “chunk”. Cute and a “chunk”.
I grew up during the “Johnsonville phenomenon”. Johnsonville brats were introduced in the mid 1940’s. There was a butcher shop located in the little, little burg of Johnsonville that introduced the brat and began to offer them through grocery stores in the Plymouth-Sheboygan area. I am a self proclaimed expert on the legendary brat sandwich. I was asked recently what kind of condiments “go on a brat”. I can’t believe people have to ask about condiments. The only thing you put on a charcoal grilled brat is pickles and onions. Case closed. You don’t slop it up with ketchup, mustard (yuk), relish, peppers, or cheese. If you want to relive history you get your brat with pickles and onions from the A&W Root Beer stand (now known as Chester’s) in Plymouth. I hate having to explain these things.
The world is going nuts downloading “apps” onto cell phones. Everything from telling you when to feed your cat to counting calories you eat every day. I note that the newest “app” is to notify young ladies when their tampons are saturated. Does the world need an app for that? How does the app work? Do they bury a microchip in the tampon. The microchip could double as a GPS locator. The app could tell a person they have a problem, identify their present location and present options to get to the nearest drug store. Isn’t modern technology great.
Three weeks until the longest day of the year!
Love,
Dad