Peace and Quiet is Starting to Return...

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Things are finally starting to settle down around here. The smoke is clearing and normalcy is returning.

"I want some peace and quiet," my father told me this afternoon with a grimace -- echoing my own thoughts and feelings about the matter.

"Is Charlie going with me or are you going with me to buy groceries tonight?" I asked my father early this evening.

Dad is not answering his cell phone and I have learned to knock on the kitchen window to get him to the door. It is just escalating the number of people texting him when I was over there.

"I am going shopping with you," my father said. "Be working on a thrifty grocery list."

Dad's iPhone then chimed signaling another text had arrived.

"Your cousin is asking about you -- wondering if you are today. She says she loves you," my father replied.

I am very looking forward to shopping with my father tonight. We have some of our best and most cherished conversations while doing so. Even if I am badgered about being thrifty.

The Chicken King...

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"Andrew?" What do want for your Sunday evening meal?" Charlie asked me last night.

"Just get me what you get," I told Charlie trying to make things easier on him.

Mom's evening meal would have entailed a diversion.

Charlie had already given me my Cokes and medications for the day when we were commiserating with my father earlier.

Well, I got a big box of KFC and exactly what Charlie was having for himself and Janice.  3pc. meal with mashed potatoes and slaw.