I sat on a deck that overlooked a fine garden, field and trees. A vulture flew overhead. I sipped a barley wine and tasted delicious buttered toast made from my host’s homemade bread. It was a sunny Monday morning, an hour before noon. Earlier, I had planted 200 Sitka spruce trees in an attempt to heal a poisoned clearcut. I’ll long be dead before I’ll know if it did any good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My host brought me a glass bowl of\ncooked crab with some cocktail sauce. Crab Louie! I’d never eaten\nCrab Louie before, but here I was eating it for brunch, along with\nthe toast and barely wine. What a strange, incongruous, glorious\ncombination! And who was Louie? And shouldn’t I be drinking a Cutty\nSark on the rocks rather than a barely wine? Perhaps dragging on a\nPall Mall, too? Doesn’t Crab Louie just scream 1952 and a table at a\nnight club in Akron, waiting for Dean Martin to perform his 1:30 a.m.\nshow, his third show of the night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that moment I was surely the only\nprofessional tree planter in the world feasting on Crab Louie after a\njob and I relished that distinction. More marvelous incongruity and\ncheers to the people who invite it into my life. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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