{"id":7445,"date":"2010-08-16T21:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:29:08","slug":"toms-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7445","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Artemis Moon<\/p>\n<p>Back from Tom&#8217;s gracious home in Shorewood.\u00a0 He served corn on the cob, salmon, an egg salad and spinach.\u00a0 Delightful.\u00a0 A pileated woodpecker ate from his feeder just as I came in.\u00a0 What a gorgeous bird.\u00a0 We ate on the deck of Tom&#8217;s unusual housing arrangement.\u00a0 These are homes with a connecting wall, though quite large on the interior with a long deck high above a sloping yard filled with maple trees and ending at a small pond.\u00a0 The entrance to the homes are modest affairs with little lawn and a walk-way cum patio after passing through a small gate.\u00a0 They open up once inside and have the decks facing the back that have complete privacy while fairly close to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Tom, Ode, Scott, Bill, Frank, Warren and Charlie were there.\u00a0 We sat outside on unseasonably cool August evening and discussed violence.\u00a0 It was an interesting conversation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little too tired right now to comment.\u00a0 Perhaps tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Ode brought me copies of the label.\u00a0 Very cool, copies on label paper.\u00a0 Gotta test the size of them on a honey jar and their stickiness.<\/p>\n<p>I did hear this joke from Frank.<\/p>\n<p>Tarzan, swinging vine by vine, comes finally to the porch of his tree home.\u00a0 He jumps down onto the porch and says, &#8220;Jane, I need a scotch.\u00a0 No, Jane, make that a double.&#8221;\u00a0 He pauses, &#8220;No, make that a triple.&#8221;\u00a0 Jane comes in with his drink, &#8220;Honey, you know alcohol doesn&#8217;t solve anything.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the matter.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, Jane,&#8221; 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