Thursday, March 18, 2004
Henniway you look at it, Hatchburg’s daffodils are distraught. Just hours before their opening day, warring snowflakes threw a last minute storm and all daffodil openings were cancelled. At Scratch and Sniff Florist, Henrietta featured daffodils and Dutch tulips as an early spring tonic. On Sunday, Rosie offered daffodils to each chick that ordered a slice of del Fabro’s carrot cake.
Cackles and clucks lost some crackle after the terrorist’s bombing in Spain. Joey felt a connection to the grieving Spaniards because he lived in Madrid for six months in 2002 while he worked on a world peace sculpture. After he heard the news, he called up Reba and they took a long stroll in the dark, and shared memories of days when there were fewer rotten eggs.
Hatchburgians paint the town green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Every chick sits on green tinted straw and some say Eve can lay a green egg. At Feather’s or Not Fowl Beauty Salon, Hattie offered free green highlights with every feather cut. At the Eagle Bakery, Thelma dusted jelly doughnuts with green granulated sugar. The Irish flag flew on Béarnaise and Marsala Places as well as in front of the Roasted Corn Diner where Rosie served a vegetarian version of corned beef and cabbage, and most chicks and roosters forgot it wasn’t real beef.
Henrietta and Enrico gave a pre -Spring party to welcome Simona Messina back to town. After several hours of dining and dancing, guests flocked to Henrietta’s living room to discuss politics. After two rounds of del Fabro cocktails the clucking turned to Bush bashing. The latest outrage, one of many, is government-produced TV ads masquerading as news reports. The Department of Health and Human Services hired actors to play journalists extolling “news” about expanded Medicare coverage. Richard Foster, one of the government Medicare experts says he was ordered not to provide requested information to congress last fall when the cost of the prescription drug subsidy was being questioned. The result is yet another bitter pill forced down the gullets of the American public.
del Fabro feathers are fluffed. She bought a bottle of Phytocalm and a copy of David Markson’s new book Vanishing Point. Says del Fabro “This book is one of the most sumptuous meals I have enjoyed in a long time; like fine bitter chocolate, and a good Amarone, its good taste lingers. The Phytocalm is not a bad thing either.”
Condolences to the families of Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo, 28, Specialist Army National Guard; Wrightsville Beach, N. C. and Jason C., 21 Specialist, Army; Bowie, Md; First Battalion, 18th Infantry, two more victims of the war in Iraq that Bush described as “mission accomplished.”
Cackles and clucks lost some crackle after the terrorist’s bombing in Spain. Joey felt a connection to the grieving Spaniards because he lived in Madrid for six months in 2002 while he worked on a world peace sculpture. After he heard the news, he called up Reba and they took a long stroll in the dark, and shared memories of days when there were fewer rotten eggs.
Hatchburgians paint the town green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Every chick sits on green tinted straw and some say Eve can lay a green egg. At Feather’s or Not Fowl Beauty Salon, Hattie offered free green highlights with every feather cut. At the Eagle Bakery, Thelma dusted jelly doughnuts with green granulated sugar. The Irish flag flew on Béarnaise and Marsala Places as well as in front of the Roasted Corn Diner where Rosie served a vegetarian version of corned beef and cabbage, and most chicks and roosters forgot it wasn’t real beef.
Henrietta and Enrico gave a pre -Spring party to welcome Simona Messina back to town. After several hours of dining and dancing, guests flocked to Henrietta’s living room to discuss politics. After two rounds of del Fabro cocktails the clucking turned to Bush bashing. The latest outrage, one of many, is government-produced TV ads masquerading as news reports. The Department of Health and Human Services hired actors to play journalists extolling “news” about expanded Medicare coverage. Richard Foster, one of the government Medicare experts says he was ordered not to provide requested information to congress last fall when the cost of the prescription drug subsidy was being questioned. The result is yet another bitter pill forced down the gullets of the American public.
del Fabro feathers are fluffed. She bought a bottle of Phytocalm and a copy of David Markson’s new book Vanishing Point. Says del Fabro “This book is one of the most sumptuous meals I have enjoyed in a long time; like fine bitter chocolate, and a good Amarone, its good taste lingers. The Phytocalm is not a bad thing either.”
Condolences to the families of Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo, 28, Specialist Army National Guard; Wrightsville Beach, N. C. and Jason C., 21 Specialist, Army; Bowie, Md; First Battalion, 18th Infantry, two more victims of the war in Iraq that Bush described as “mission accomplished.”
