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June 15, 2003
Dork County Father's Day Lessons
things I learned in door county this father's day weekend:
- with the correct accesssories, lucite platform slides apparently match everything, especially a striped miniskirt and tube top combo.
- sailors are just as deliciously catty as I am, making a room full of cheese-and-beer-addicted tank-top wearing bar flies a quip-a-minute laughfest, rather than a tortured two hours of biting my own tongue....
- the trip up to the country home with my siblings will always be an enriching, entertaining, and educational experience. the trip home will always be a trial. an exercise in staying awake at best, a fight with the slightly-hung-over-person-with-her-finger-hovering-over-the-window-release-button at worst.
- no matter what verizon tells you, your cell phone will not work at the times it's supposed to work and will always cut out when you are receiving directions en route to the well-hidden house....and will keep you from receiving the adorable text and voice messages your friends have sent all weekend. fucking cell phone companies. . . fucking 'call radius"...
- my great grandfather invented the mercoid switch, my great uncle was the 'pilot' on the first manned flight west of the mississippi, and my grandmother's last words to my brother were "I always loved you most of all, Rex."
believe it or not, I'm glad I went. I'm pretty sure I'll go again, if only to get jocelyn's famed day tour of "the peninsula interior'...
Posted by Heather at June 15, 2003 03:58 PM
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your page interestingly enough, came up while i was doing a search for harrison ford(don't ask, i can't tell. it's a dangerous operation is all that can be said). anyway i saw the Door county link, aaaaaand, as i just got back this evening from the snowy place and saw that you had posted about it, i'd thought i'd leave a comment. so. there you are then.
Posted by: rodee at February 22, 2004 08:35 PM
Dork County Fathers Day Lesson. Who was your great grandfather. I am doing some research on Ira Emmett McCabe that worked for Mercoid and holds a patent on the Mercury Switch. He was also built and flew an airplane in Lexington, NE in 1914.
Posted by: Jim Screws at March 16, 2004 12:11 PM
The plane Emmett McCabe build is in the Dawson County Museum. I believe he was my father's cousin. And was born the the Fairmont Ne. area. I would be interested in what your reseach has found, and why you are doing it.
Posted by: John McCabe at October 15, 2005 07:40 AM