Let Go And Laugh

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That mother of mine…

Loved salami…always ate it in a sandwich…but referred to it as summer sausage…

Anyone want a summer sausage sandwich?..she would ask…little me thought it was silly…the name…summer sausage…

Susan eats a summer sausage sandwich…Susan eats a silly summer sausage sandwich…just never made sense…until now…

Embarrassingly so…touring historic homes…detached kitchens due to heat…lack of refrigeration…the wheels started to turn…summer sausage…

SUMMER sausage…sausage to eat DURING the summer…when it’s hot…

Had to laugh…it seemed ridiculous that it hadn’t registered until now…60 years later…

And then…reading a book about the history of Muskie City a vintage ad appeared…Hershey Lumber Company…lumber, lath, shingles and pickets…

Thought pickets?..what the heck is a picket?..had to google it…and there it was again…the omg moment…the aha moment…the am I the only one who didn’t know this?..moment…

A picket…a pointed stake in a fence…as in picket fence…had no idea a picket fence is called a picket fence…BECAUSE…drum roll please…it’s made of pickets…

And so it is…in life…every now and then we have the face palm moment…laugh about it…learn from it…then take that palm off the face…and if you have a mind to…

Make yourself…a silly…summer sausage sandwich…
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And that mother of mine…would agree…