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Agreed. Now, I could go out on a limb here and say my mother’s is the best potato salad in the land, but you could also say I might be a little biased. *chuckle* And yes, I’ve had middling German style before; there’s a trick to making it I haven’t tried yet. The vinegar and bacon have to be balanced just right, the dressing is thinner than the others, and it has to be served at the right teperature. There’s a place in Alpine Helen, GA called International Haus that knocks it out of the park every time. A good store brand in a can is Read German potato salad. Surprisingly good for canned. (If they ever lift this Andromeda Strain lockdown on the planet, I want us to rent a log cabin in the woods outside of town for three days and stagger zombie-like around the Helen area again. Beautiful environs, great food, pretty mountains, and I have a contact for cabins that all have indoor hot tubs and are right on a trout stream. You can literally fish from your deck. And there are two vineyards/wineries there which make some really delicious wine, and offer tours.)

*chuckle* Gina, Connie came into the room and actually praised the wings. She even went to far as to having us pair off various sides that would go good with them, and that’s almost astonishing for her. But, if it makes her happy.....(I wanted to bake some squash in butter on the side, but she made her troll face at me and said, “With smoked wings? WHAT? I’ll just have wings with my wings!” LOL!)

Well, given the circumstances in the recent past, I've actually had more 'vacation' time than she has. I got to log two weeks at home in westen MD over the holidays; she barely get eight hours of sleep and is too sluggish on her day off to want to do anything. The last real vacation we had was the last time we rented one of the cabins, so hopefully something is going to change. A small, glacial movement somewhere. Now that one of my tribulations is behind me, we're getting some forward movement on a few projects. We had a landscape crew come in, cut the lawn (both of our riding mowers need some elbow grease and TLC), did the trimming and weedeating, opened up the drainage under the driveway, trimmed the lemongrass bordering the pool, and burned a huge pile of wood and leaves (I gotta go out and reinstall the pool walkway lights, but big deal). This week, we're gonna pollute the local water table with about five gallons of weed killer. LOL Then the deadbeats will be informed to get their remaining crap out of the garage because I'm hiring a local hauler to come empty out about half the remaining contents onto a flatbed, along with a couple big trees that aren't fit for firewood. Then Unca Viking is gonna finance one of these to finish reclaiming my garage:

https://cottonstatebarns.com/

90 days, same as cash, or 36, 48, and 60 month financing. Sizes 8’ x 10’ up to 16’ x 40’. Lofted barns, cabins with porches, livestock shelters, cabanas. Two kinds of roofing, four kinds of siding in almost fifty colors, and a load of custom options. And all of these are custom stick built, then delivered and set up free. I’ve seen some of these actually roughed out, utilities hooked up, and used as mini-homes in southern Alabama.

http://cottonstatebarns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/COTTON_STATE_BROCHURE_APRIL_2019_WEB.pdf

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