Just a thought - Eli Lutgens
I don’t have a whole lot of life updates or happenings to share this week.
Last week I did not write a column as it was simply too painful of a week. I aggravated my back/leg/sciatic nerve and spent the entire week, continuing to today, nursing a spasming calf muscle. Quite painful.
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This week I have health updates, a Braves baseball update and a little local news.
Locally
The bakery in New Richland is for sale/has been for sale. Nancy Jane and company plan to retire when they sell.
As long as I have been alive, New Richland has had a bakery. During my youth my...
I’m grateful for my siblings.
I bought my brother a “smoker,” aka a type of grill for a gift this past week. It was a combination birthday/Christmas gift. But really I just want someone to make a good brisket that I can enjoy. After much discussion on my best friend Jake’s couch, we reached...
Last week my dad told me about falling in love with my mother. It took me completely by surprise when he said it was “love at first sight.”
It’s such an odd thing. I told my dad last week that I love him more than any other person. He told me I was his best friend.
In previous columns...
My friend Madi reports she had an excellent time on the trip we planned together that I could not attend due to my back injury. She visited four monasteries and, aside from the “freaky African and Indian Masks” at the cabin, everything was “fantastic.” Madi also visited a museum of dinosaurs as...
I was supposed to be on vacation this week.
At 28-years old I’m not supposed to have this much pain.
I threw out my back picking up a frying pan last Tuesday. Despite taking care not to bend at the back, bending with my knees, the motion of picking it up with my arms caused my lower...
The impossible happened this week. I skunked my dad at cribbage.
Two times.
On the week, I tallied seven wins, to his six. Dad took the first two bouts of the week before I rattled off four straight wins on round two (the next day), including a skunk. We started round two intending to...
The cribbage battles continue with Dad. This week I took home the majority, 11-6. Dad registered one skunk which helped lessen my assault to even our totals. Prior to Monday evening, I was up 7-3 in games. That evening, up three to one in games, we were playing our final game. The difference in...
As I sat in church Sunday morning the bells of Wilton Church rang, and to me, felt as if they were doing so for the final time. Saturday evening Deb invited me to join her for Pastor Larry Sipe’s final service in Wilton. His actual last service for the parishes will be Sunday at First Lutheran in...
The nightly cribbage games with my father continue. Lately we have nearly split our games, with the slight edge going my way. Over the weekend my father thanked me for not bragging about beating him in my column.
Thursday evening, he got to the table a few minutes before me. When I walked...