Monday, December 12, 2016

Good morning crew,

I might be getting too comfortable in my bathrobe. It is becoming a staple of my at-home attire. This Sunday afternoon, for example, after we got a dusting of a few inches of snow I slipped on my boots and my lambskin hat, and wrapped only in my bathrobe I went outside to shovel off the front porch and walkway. It was almost 30 degrees after all. Practically a spring day.

When I came back in 20 minutes later the wife took one look at me and said, "Don't tell me you were you outside shoveling dressed like that!"

"What?" I retorted, giving myself a once-over. "You can't see anything."

"What are the neighbor's going to think?"

"Hey," I told her, "you can be glad I bothered to put pants on."

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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