On their morning walk, Gertrude's friend Sally shared that she was having trouble in her marriage because of her in-laws. It seemed that everything that Sally and her husband did as a married couple, her husband felt the need to tell his mother. Of course, this caused great problems with Sally. Gertrude and Sally finished their walk, and Gertrude had just arrived home to find Herkamer working on their weed eater. Gertrude wanted to talk with Herkamer about the situation, but she waited until he was successful in repairing the lawn equipment, and had just walked out to the front porch to tell him about Sally.
“Herkamer,” Gertrude began, “It looks like you fixed the weed eater. Congratulations!” Herkamer was feeling proud of himself, smiled as he looked at the accomplishment, and said, “I did. Thank you.” “Can you help me fix something else?” Gertrude asked. “Why? What's broken now? I'm on a roll today. I think I can fix anything,” Herkamer said boastfully. “Great,” said Gertrude, “Because Sally and Dave are having trouble again.” “What?” asked Herkamer, “I thought they had everything worked out.” Herkamer now wanted to retract his words about “fixing anything” and said, “What is it this time?
Gertrude was about to answer him when an old dark blue 1967 Cadillac rolled up into their driveway. Herkamer and Gertrude immediately knew who was inside, and with a breath of relief, Herkamer knew that he would be alleviated of “fixing” Sally and Dave. The old relic automobile stopped, and the door opened. There stood Brother Hadley with a huge smile and saying, “Hey youngins'. I was just in the area and thought I'd stop by for some of Gertrude's pot belly stew.” Gertrude and Herkamer could never figure out how he knew when Gertrude made her stew, but just the evening before it was what she made for dinner.
They exchanged hugs and welcomes, and Herkamer invited Brother Hadley inside. Sally began to warm up the stew from the evening before as Herkamer made small talk about the weed eater and his success with repairing it. In a few minutes, Sally brought out a bowl of warm stew to Brother Hadley who always insisted on praying before he ate, did so, and then took a large spoonful of delicatessen. “Gertrude,” Brother Hadley began, “Do you have a banana?” Gertrude looked a little puzzled, but answered “yes” and went to the kitchen to retrieve one for him. When she gave it to him, Brother Hadley opened the banana and began cutting pieces of it into the stew. “There, there” Brother Hadley stated as he chopped. “This will make it just right.” Herkamer and Gertrude looked at each other as if to say, “What in the world?” when Brother Hadley said, “So, what's going on with Sally and Dave?”
Herkamer looked at Gertrude in amazement and mouthed “how did he know?”
Stay tuned tomorrow for more of the story. Same blog time. Same blog place. Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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