I'd Drink to That!! June 10-17: Jerky Day

JUNE 10, SUNDAY--  Nursing Assistants Day**  Rose (Wine) Day**  Maybe.  Iced Tea Day**  We had that and a lot of food goodies in Pontiac, Illinois.

JUNE 11, MONDAY-- b German Chocolate Cake Day**  Corn On the Cob Day*8  Do you eat it straight across or around?

JUNE 12, TUESDAY--  Red Rose Day**  Jerky Day**

JUNE 13, WEDNESDAY--  Weed Your Garden Day**  Too late, they already won.

JUNE 14, THURSDAY--  Bourbon Day*8  I have developed a taste for this.  And, we were just in Bourbon, Missouri.  Home of those giant water towers of BOURBON.  Flag Day**  I'll be hoisting mine.

JUNE 15, FRIDAY--   Lobster Day**  Photography Day**  Flip Flop Day**  Comfortable sometimes.

JUNE 16, SATURDAY--  World Sea Turtle Day**  This from a guy who used to have a place at Topsail Beach, N.C., with all those sea turtles.

JUNE 17, SUNDAY--  Father's Day**  For the guys who don't just donate sperm. but raise the kids.  Apple Strudel Day**

--RoadTurtle

CUSTOMER GUIDE TO SUPERMARKET CHECKOUT:  When in the ten-items-or-less line and you have 12-20 items, always ask the clerk if it's okay.

Mom's Yard

I always enjoy coming to North Carolina during the spring as the state is a month ahead of us in northern Illinois as far as plants and flowers blooming. However, we're way ahead of schedule this year because of all of that welcome warm.

The dogwood trees are bursting into bloom and azaleas are out. Of course, their azaleas are a lot bigger than ours in Illinois. And mom has at least 14 different kinds of azaleas and about seven colors and ten different camellias, which she said were especially beautiful this year, but are past bloom.

Unfortunately, the daffodils are also pretty much gone.

The spirea bushes are all white and verbena are blooming.

Mom provided the flowers for the vases at yesterdays Salvation Army barbecue and they were quite colorful.

Liking Those Flowers. --RoadDog

NTNing Down Da Road Part 3: To Donovan's Reef

Yesterday, we stopped at one more new NTN site, this time Jerseys, in Beloit, Wisconsin, out by I-90 on a frontage road behind Subway. Like Cousins yesterday, cigarette smoking is not allowed, Great for me, but not for Liz.

The TVs are not set up well for NTN players so you have to turn to look to play, not a favorite situation. Very friendly bartender. We had just overeaten at the buffet at Thunder Bay Grille in Rockford, but, when I heard that they had 25 cent wings, I had to order some. I just can't turn down 25 cent wings!! These were huge too, not those little bitty baby ones you get at BW3, well, Buffalo Wild Wings. My excuse for eating again is that I had just walked around the world-famous Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford. That is really worth the $6 admission.

We then drove small roads along the Wisconsin-Illinois border to Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, where we played NTN at our home bar, Donovan's Reef. It is named after the Lee Marvin/John Wayne movie and is a taste of Florida in Wisconsin. There are three palm trees out on the deck where you can see the lake across the street. Bamboo lines the front of the bar and thatched grass hangs above it. All the paneling is wood with beach stuff on it.

We've been playing NTN here for about 12 years now. This is where we have our highest point totals. We had three top twenties. NTN shows the top twenty scores across the two countries as well as top twenty individual scores. (We had also had two top twenties yesterday at Scoreboard's.)

Have NTN, Will Travel. --RoadDog