So I had arrived at my sixth and last employee hire, a chef/cook, someone who would at least not burn the food, and able to turn out a respectable dish. How do you select a cook, by past experience, do we discuss expertise in selecting different menu options, does character enter the equation, do IContinue reading “The Wiley Trout- Mintita”
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Hiatus
I’m taking a 1-2 week leave. I’m the treasurer of a condo and it’s our year end September 30, year end financial statements and audit papers to prepare. Be back soon.
The Book Worm
He was a book worm surrounded by birds of prey who waited to swoop the moment he emerged from his habitat. A child of solitude searching to find his way and survive in an overcrowded toxic world full of anger and hate. He knew they called it the law of the jungle, survival at allContinue reading “The Book Worm”
The Wily Trout-Ciaran and Collette.
I’ve known Ciaran and Collette, the twins, since their birth, their father being my best friend, and I had the honour to be chosen as Ciaran’s godfather at his baptism. Collette’s charm and out going manner was the perfect foil to Ciaran’s serious, unsmiling demeanour, while Collette was enjoying a cranberry vodka at 2:00 a.m.Continue reading “The Wily Trout-Ciaran and Collette.”
Opposites
The twins were identical in appearance but completely opposite in temperament. Mary was quiet, gentle and reserved, while Martha was loud, a smug know-it-all who craved attention and loved to party. Mary and Martha were invited to a wedding celebration by their long time friend, Daphne, and assumed it would be a small affair, butContinue reading “Opposites”
The Wily Trout-Mahendra
I had just shown Bernadette the door when a smartly dressed Indian geezer squeezed into the bar and I gave him a look and told him we wouldn’t be opening for another month. Undeterred he explained in a plummy English accent that he was frightfully sorry, and he knew it was an awful imposition, butContinue reading “The Wily Trout-Mahendra”
A Royal Couple
Duke Desmond of Ditchburn was madly in love with Princess Penelope, and annoyingly haunted the castle day and night, making a nuisance of himself, forever intruding on her privacy. Alas, his love was not returned as Penelope was quite happy with her own company and walking alone in the meadow picking a myriad of freshContinue reading “A Royal Couple”
The Wily Trout-Bernadette
My next staff hire would be someone to assist Fred at the bar and so I revisited the resumes, looking for something out of the ordinary rather than a mundane listing of bar duty experience. This time I got lucky, the irony inherent in the third resume I reviewed didn’t escape me, a degree inContinue reading “The Wily Trout-Bernadette”
My Friend George
Let me introduce you to, George, a crocheted monkey affectionately named after Curious George owned by the Man with the Yellow Hat. I still fondly remember the episode where George made a grab for the man’s yellow hat and took a shovel to bury it by the trailer. My 17 year old granddaughter, Brianna, wasContinue reading “My Friend George”
