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Good snowy morning from Collegeville,

We did not get the 6 – 12 inches that were forecast and there is a 64 degree day in the five day forecast on my iPhone. What a winter. I sent the check for a down payment on a house in Sedona, Arizona for next March. Life is good.

We had a marvelous trip to D.C. Did you know that the Father of Our Country fathered no children? How did I miss that in American History? He married a widow who had two children and George and Martha had no offspring. We were able to visit Arlington Cemetery, Monticello, The Marine Museum, Mount Vernon and the mall. On the mall we got to the Lincoln Memorial, The Vietnam Memorial, The World War Two memorial and the Corcoran Art Gallery and Museum on 17th Street. Chef Todd Gray at the Muse makes a very good salmon salad.

Brandon told me about WAZE.com, a wonderful APP for getting directions. That feature along with the Express Pass on the rental car made life a lot easier. Our use of the Metro was uneventful on Sunday when Brandon and Jen took us to Arlington, but on Thursday we could not find the first stop and we could not find parking spaces on the second station, nor could we find the third stop, so back to the first. WAZE was a bit off on that destination. If you go to Leesburg, go to The Old Town Grill at 15 South King Street for supper. Very nice. A huge thank you to Jill at Bursch Travel.

The show this week is a live broadcast from The Town Hall on West 43rd Street in New York City. Special guests include adventurous acoustic trio Nickel Creek, folk singing duo Pharis and Jason Romero and vocalist Heather Masse. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors along with Richard Dworsky will bring us the usual collection of skits and music. The News From Lake Wobegon will bring us up to date on the goings on in Mist County in central Minnesota.

“The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here; the way to be happy is to make others so.” Robert Green Ingersoll