Charlie's Parlay...

"I close on my new house Wednesday," Charlie told me very excitably tonight as he filled Maggie's water bowl over the kitchen sink. "Now, I've got to get rid of some of my other property to afford it."

I chuckled. Charlie lives for this kind of stuff. He's like real estate like I am to computers and computer parts. Enough is never enough. He will own three houses and an apartment complex Wednesday.

On tonight's menu were three chicken strips, one large mashed potatoes with gravy, one large chocolate chip cookie, and a large Pepsi. Maggie gets one of the strips every week and she just adores it and gets to be quite an excitable little dog about it. She knows Charlie visiting means a full belly. She was just as excited this morning when Charlie brought us breakfast biscuits.

Charlie put four packets of McDonald's strawberry preserves in my goodie bag this morning.

"What are these for?" I asked Charlie inquisitively.

"You eat it with your sausage biscuit," Charlie replied. "Its got a kind of a sweet, salty, and savory thing going for it."

Well, I ate my sausage patty separately and then put the preserves on the biscuits and ate them. Maybe I will be more food adventuresome next week.