Actually the story starts at Raley's, one day earlier this summer. We had relatives visiting and they hadn't seen the boys yet. We were going to go where Marty works because he hadn't come home when we expected him to, and then to lunch where Kirby works. When we got to the store, one of the checkers said "Marty's gone to lunch with Dan and Valerie."

Oh!

He usually walks home for his half-hour lunch. Dan and Valerie are his boss and his supervisor.

Kinda cool to be surprised that way when we had visitors.

We went on to Dion's, and sat to wait for Kirby to get off his shift. He slid into the booth with a piece of paper, and here's a copy:

I carried it across to Office Max to make a copy for Grandma, and one for me and one for Kirby. Then he took the original back to to the bulletin board from which he'd borrowed it, in the office.

I couldn't have arranged a more impressive half hour for relatives whose next stop was my mother-in-law's house.

When he got home, Marty told us they had taken him out for a steak dinner for being the store's champion in the "Bag Olympics."