{"id":202,"date":"2008-07-07T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-08-10T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T19:16:05","slug":"of-mice-and-washington-and-maryland-and-uncle-johnnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/2008\/07\/07\/of-mice-and-washington-and-maryland-and-uncle-johnnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Of mice …. and Washington… and Maryland… and Uncle Johnnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family faces are magic mirrors.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.\u00c2\u00a0 ~Gail Lumet Buckle<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ok, so this post is about our week-end trip to the above mentioned places (the mice part I’ll explain later!).\u00c2\u00a0 Five of us ventured back east for the long holiday week-end for the main purpose of visiting my Uncle Johnnie.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s eighty-seven and my mother’s only sibling.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a real gem – they just don’t make ’em like my Uncle Johnnie any more.\u00c2\u00a0 He is still very sharp – able to navigate a car around the area where he lives in southern Maryland and maintain the home he built himself years ago (he cut the trees down himself and hauled them into a mill in town to make them into the lumber he used to build his home).\u00c2\u00a0 We enjoyed our visit, even though it was only a couple of days – it was great to see him and his friend Kitty.\u00c2\u00a0 He reminds me a lot of my mom.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish we lived closer so we could see him more often.<\/p>\n

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While in Maryland we had the most fantastic seafood at the Captain’s Table (http:\/\/massarosrestaurants.com\/captainstable\/ )\u00c2\u00a0 and Catamarans Restaurant (http:\/\/www.catamarans-restaurant.com\/ ), both located in nearby Solomans Island along the Patuxent River in Maryland.\u00c2\u00a0 We also drove over to Piney Point, MD to spend a little time on the beach and see the old lighthouse.\u00c2\u00a0 While there I had to admonish Francis to follow the sign that read “no crabbing!”\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before going down to Maryland, we spent July 4th at the Smithsonian’s Folk Festival and Washington’s Independence Day parade.\u00c2\u00a0 Along with tens or perhaps hundred’s of thousands of others, we braved the warm, humid, and sometimes rainy weather to take in as many of the events as we could manage.\u00c2\u00a0 The evening was spent sitting on the steps of the capitol for the hour-long “A Capitol Fourth” concert (http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/capitolfourth\/ ) broadcast by PBS listening to Huey Lewis and the News, Taylor Hicks, and Jerry Lee Lewis followed by some pretty big fireworks. Although some of the Smithsonian buildings were closed, we did get to visit the new National Museum of the American Indian, the Air and Space Museum, Union Station, and the National World War II memorial (http:\/\/www.wwiimemorial.com\/ ).\u00c2\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And now for the part about the mouse!\u00c2\u00a0 As we waited a few hours in the Ronald Reagan National Airport for our rain-delayed flight, we were startled when Kalie alerted us to the fact that a mouse was just standing on the floor right in front of us near our carry-on luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t moving or causing any problems, but it still was a bit unnerving just having it stand there looking at us.\u00c2\u00a0 I went up to the airline desk to let them know that a mouse was standing guard in their waiting area, but the man in charge just sort of shuddered and said he couldn’t do anything about it because he had a fear of mice!\u00c2\u00a0 So I went over to where Francis was standing visiting with an old college acquaintance and told him about the mouse and then went looking for an airport maintainance worker to see if they’d have a solution to the mouse problem.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s when my fearless husband decided to take matters into his own hands (umm, I mean feet, I guess).\u00c2\u00a0 He considered picking it up by the tail to dispose of it, but the prospect of many people screaming in an airport if he did that caused him to go to Plan B. He just walked over to the mouse, stepped on it and kicked it into the corner in one smooth move… but much to both the dismay and delight of interested onlookers! \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He was proclaimed a hero by the airline desk attendant who was afraid of mice and the offensive mouse was still belly-up in the corner as we finally boarded the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family faces are magic mirrors.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.\u00c2\u00a0 ~Gail Lumet Buckle Ok, so this post is about our week-end trip to the above mentioned places (the mice part I’ll explain later!).\u00c2\u00a0 Five of us ventured back east for the long holiday week-end for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dcmaryland","category-family","category-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whiddenfarm.com\/yello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}