Who knew?

[gerisullivan]

Right there in Okemos, Michigan, in the northwest corner of Okemos and Hamilton Roads, is the Travelers Club. It's odd enough to find something billing itself as an international restaurant on such an unprepossessing corner lot, but the Travelers Club goes one better. It goes a big, noisy one better. It's not just an international restaurant, it's an international restaurant and tuba museum!

I drove by, croggled. I gave light thought to going back and checking out Tuba Charlie's selection of microbrews, but just wasn't quite in the mood. Maybe later this year, when I'm back for Mom's memorial picnic. It'll give me something to look forward to.

In the meanwhile, thank Ghu for the World Wide Web. It's a friend of tubas, and most every other bit of weirdness out there.

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[tammylc.livejournal.com]

I knew.

Guess I should have told you.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

So, do you know if the food is any good?

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

They've got a large and eclectic menu, and each month they have specials that focus on a different area of the world. It's not haute cuisine, but the things I've had there have been tasty.

I knew I'd written about in my LJ, but couldn't find the post last night. Here it is: http://tammylc.livejournal.com/65125.html

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Maybe later this year, when I'm back for Mom's memorial picnic.

About seven or eight months after Elwood Holmberg died Jeff Peasley, Val Lies and I were invited down to Taylor's Falls for his nephew's baptism. After the service we got together for a picnic at a state park across the Mississippi, and later in the day Elwood's ashes were sprinkled from the bluffs.

Also when my mother died we (older sister Phyllis, my younger brother Jeff & I) decided to play it cheap and not worry about getting a headstone until the first anniversary of her passing. The day of the ceremony Jeff & I drove into "town" (a place so small they can't afford half a horse) and picked up a box of little whiskey bottles (you know, airline sized)

Reason for that was, whenever Jeff visited, Mom at the nursing home he'd ask, "Do you need anything? Anything you want?"

"Bring me a bottle of whiskey". So it just had to go under the headstone

Later that night we all got together for a big bonfire at the farm. Know you have to understand, we're talking about a working dairy farm run by people who never take any time off. Carrie's parents were even there!

It was just wonderful .

Hope your reunion will be as good as ours was.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

If you like tubas, and if you like seeing women in traditionally male-dominated fields, and if you also like to read the success stories of talented young people, then you will absolutely love this news article (http://www.thestate.com/mld/philly/entertainment/performing_arts/13965758.htm?source=rss&channel=philly_performing_arts)!

[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

You live in a deeply strange world. :)