You came from Iowa to knock on my door?

The mighty walled in compound that is the 10 Clark, was almost breached today by mid westerners.

After a night of celebrating the departure of one of the laziest and confrontational temps that we were working with yesterday, I decided to enjoy four beers at home with the dogs.

I awoke in a fog as i really don't drink to excess anymore, with the doorbell ringing.

The car they were driving had Connecticut plates. A rental.

She went next door to Esther's house after ringing our bell twice, and her husband pointed to me as she was walking back to her car.

Esther is One hundred and three.

We greeted. Instead of verbally berating her for stirring me, i decided to play nice.

Here's a recap of a person i'll probably never see again:

They are from Iowa. They are relatives of the previous owner. they are obviously religious because they mentioned living next to a recently closed church across town.

She asked if we knew the previous owners phone number.

She was nice, but i had absolutely no information about Kittie(yes, her name is Kittie) save that she moved from here to Palmer.

I ended up pointing her across the street to Maureen's house.
Maureen is the unofficial queen of nosy gossip on our street.

That was that.

I can say that the first thing i did today was meet someone from Iowa!

Now i'm awake. I have no iced tea or iced coffee prepared for that morning jolt, so i'm drinking some almost flat Polar ginger ale.

Polar ginger ale is the best among the worst. By that i mean there are the ginger ales that come in a plastic bottle and there are those that come in a bottle and are micro brewed.

Polar has a zing of real ginger that other ginger ales fail to reach.

The best of the micro brewed? it would have to be Boylan's and Reed's for a tie. but Reed's is a Ginger Brew. They have three strengths. And it's more of a tonic as it has herbs.

Boylan's is sweetened with cane sugar and real ginger. It's a punch that is hard to take, and it has to be served really cold, but it's so refreshing.

So that's it for me for now.

Good luck!