Heimat Haus - CBC

It must’ve been about 7:40am when I finally rolled out of bed for good. I felt terrific having logged over nine hours of sleep. As I tip-toed out of the room Mindy requested that I deliver coffee a little later.

By 8:05 am I had coffee made, Ykraps walked, and my exercises routine in the bag. I debated what time to deliver Mindy’s coffee knowing full well how much she enjoys sleeping-in on our kidless weekends. I waited until well after 9am to deliver fresh coffee. During that stretch of time I did some writing, down loaded pictures, and played on the internet. I was quite angry after finding our geranium baskets hanging from the pergola once again decimated by a psychotic squirrel. No matter what I do, he returns to dig out the potting soil I replenish thus exposing the roots and subjecting the mature flowers to drying out. I’ve repotted them twice already in the past week or so. 

Mindy joined me downstairs just as I was preparing to head out for my run. I kept my run inside the subdivision, although I toyed with the idea of running along Trabue. I was back by 10:15am. I wasn’t back from my run too long before heading out to begin a full day’s worth of yard work. I spent a lot of time trimming shrubs and ivy and then raking all the trimmings into several small piles. Just as I was finishing up, I severed the extension cord with my electric hedge trimmers. That’s the second time in the last five years. I used my new collapsible “spring bucket” to gather up all the clippings. That came in really handy. About the time I finished up all the trimming, Mindy was leaving for the grocery store. I began mowing and blowing. The yard was looking pretty darn good after about 4 hours worth of work. I began sprinkling the lawn almost as soon as I finished cutting the lawn. 

There were several other tasks I wanted to accomplish, too. First, I decided to install another 4X4” post halfway along the 10’ section of the support wall I recently built. That will add some additional rigidity and prevent the fill dirt from pushing it out of alignment. That didn’t take long at all. Mindy worked on some inside chores while I worked outside. That changed around 4pm when she agreed to head over to my dad’s with me. We filled his trailer with another load of fill-dirt then hauled it home. Not only did she help fill the trailer, but she helped unload it too. I was surprised by her willingness to help. It saved some wear and tear on my already tired bones. She filled the wheel barrow while I did the running and dumping. I could tell rather quickly that we’d need at least one more load of fill-dirt before getting more top soil, but that would have to wait until tomorrow. I as whipped. And besides, we had a wedding party to attend in Grove City around 6pm. We both showered up and were ready to go by 6 pm. But we decided not to rush ourselves. We both enjoyed a beverage before departing. In addition, Mindy suggested that perhaps we could visit CBC after the wedding party. Sounded good to me. 

We arrived at the Heimat Haus in Grove City just before 7pm. Mindy & I both noticed an overwhelming cat urine smell at the entrance to the party house. We did our best to not display a sour face as we made our grand entrance. My guess is that there are Ferrell cats that frequent the grounds eating scraps left behind by party hosts. We celebrated the wedding of Kevin and Kari along with about 50 other folks. We decided early on not to partake in the buffet style dinner just so we could take our appetites to CBC a bit later.  We left the wedding party around 8:30pm and headed towards German Village. We passed niece Julie’s apartment on our way, and decided to give her and Katie a call to see if they cared to join us at CBC since it’s right around the corner. They accepted our invite. 

Mindy and I took two corner stools at the finely appointed bar and did our level best to save two seats for Julie & Katie. Kevin was bartending. He’s been there each time we’ve visited over the past two years. Eventually, Kevin introduced us to his wife Catalina, who’s from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was sitting by herself at one end of the bar. We struck up and lengthy and lively conversation with her. Like most Latinos we know, she was very animated, and funny too. Each time we visit CBC we’ve met someone interesting. 

Julie & Katie showed up a short time later. We ended up ordering some calamari to share but they weren’t hungry. They did, however, enjoy some wine. Mindy ended up ordering their version of sushi – yellow fin tuna – and shared some of it with Katie. Neither Julie or myself were willing to eat any. 

Looking around the bar, we were the last to leave. In fact, the official closing hour had already passed. We tipped Kevin well for putting up with us. Mindy drove home. We weren’t up long. Mindy was tired and so was I. I did relocate the sprinkler to the mid backyard planning to leave it run all night long.