[Ken wrote:] My wife and I are celebrating our 39th anniversary tomorrow.
I was trying
to think of something special to get her . . . . I finally decided that
for our 39th anniversary I am going to take her to Ireland. Then on our
50th I plan to go back and get her.
I've been meaning to jump in here to honor Ken's 39th anniversary a couple of
days ago. Congratulations! Of course, I don't always know when Ken is being
serious and when he's funning us. Based on what he's written, I guess he'll
be making a return trip to Ireland in Year 2020! Which leads me to a serious
note for real: My wife and I just celebrated our 36th anniversary and I took
her to England Scotland (for real) and, Ken, I did bring her back home with
me, just for the record. First of all, we spent quite a bit of time exploring
historic sites in Scotland's County of FIFE and wondered if Barney's ancestors
may have originated in this faraway land. Secondly, we were muddling through
the streets of a quaint town -- British driving is very stressful -- and
noticed in the distance a white building over which a sign read, Mayberry
Pub. I blinked my eyes a couple of times, wondering if I had read it
accurately. Sure 'nuff, it did say Mayberry. My nerves in that kind of
driving were just about as high as Barney's when he's on a case, and there was
no turning back, turning around, or forcing our little rental car down a
one-way street going the wrong way, so the brief glimpse of the Mayberry Pub
had to stick in my mind as a once-and-only sighting.I think I was
scratching my head for a day or two with the amazing reality that in the
Kingdom of Fife was something named Mayberry!Guess the world is never too
large to be without a distant reference to Mayberry our Hometown.
Larry in CO
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