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<\/a><\/p>\nTook a trip down memory lane, Chico addition.\u00a0 John and my first place together was a garage in back of John\u2019s friend\u2019s rental property.\u00a0 Can\u2019t really see the apartment anymore with all the plants.\u00a0 One room, just a bit smaller than the rolling box where we now live\u2026so I guess that means our living accommodations have come full circle.<\/p>\n
John and I met at Some Other Place (SOP), a bar owned by a friend of John\u2019s, 41 years ago.<\/p>\n My apartment was three streets down from SOP and just a few steps from my favorite (actually just the closest)\u00a0liquor store.<\/p>\n I stopped at our local donut shop on the way home from SOP almost nightly and sometimes caught a ride on the back platforms of the slow moving trains that passed down the middle of town just a few feet from my apartment.<\/p>\n John and I met, dated three months and then married.\u00a0 The motel across the street where I worked, the donut shop, the liquor store and my apartment are still standing as what they were 41 years ago with the exception of SOP, now a woman\u2019s dress shop.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course John\u2019s work place, Chico State University, still stands although it long ago lost its Playboy Magazine standing as the number one party school in the nation.<\/p>\n Dinner tonight at the Lodge.\u00a0 It\u2019s Tightwad Tuesday buffet with drinks, a huge salad bar, gumbo\/rice, fresh steamed veggies, pork medallions and yeast rolls. \u00a0We sat with one couple, her brother and they were delightful company.\u00a0 Shared memories of life in Chico years ago until we were the last table to leave.\u00a0 We love staying at Elks RV Parks.\u00a0 Meeting members, \u00a0being invited into their lodge and being treated as if we were long standing members certainly gives you a feeling of comfort and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was supposed to rain today.\u00a0 Instead, it came down the other white stuff\u2026hail.\u00a0 Crossed our fingers and toes that it stopped before any damage was done to the new solar panels on the roof.\u00a0 Perhaps a plan preventing other … Continue reading ![\"Formerly](\"http:\/\/perrellas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Formerly-Some-Other-Place-where-John-and-I-met-150x99.jpg\")
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