My New Blog

I had a pretty interesting week last week. In a good way. As I was recapping what a cool week I had my wife suggested I blog about it. Well after a few previous lame attempts at blogging which basically was favorite movie video's, I decided I would give it another shot. Here is why I think last week was pretty cool:

I was coming home from work one night and I got to the corner of Cherry Hill and Sheldon. Darting in and out of traffic was a part golden retriver and part whatever dog. On the corner was a woman with a leash and a cell phone to her ear and while I am no genius, it was easy to figure out what was going on here. I drove north on sheldon and pulled into the church partking lot ( driveway). The dog was coming my way and I whistled for the dog and hit the side of my car to call the dog over. The dog did come over but while I am trying to be helpful I am not about to get bit by a strange dog so I stayed in my car. The woman was getting closer but the dog got tired of me and back out into the street it went. I took a chance and blew my horn and yelled for the dog and by chance it did come back and at that time the lady got to my car and got her dog. She said thanks and appreciated my help. I felt pretty good about helping out.

Later in the week I was on my way back from lunch with my boss and we drove by the really big and beautiful house on canton center. I told my boss that the owner of republic tool and die owned the house and that once I had been in Republic T&D and it had at least 60 presses. My boss said no way and before you know I pulled up in front of republic tool and die. We walked in and before you know it we are meeting the owner named John. John has to be in his 80's and has been handicapped by a stroke. We sat down and started to talk with John. He shared pictures of Republic back in the 40's to today. It was absolutely incredible. He then told us how he started a foundation that helped construct several thousand churches worldwide ( he had various pic's on the wall of this). My boss is in the process of helping build a new church now. Wouldn't it be something if John ends up helping build another church all from a chance meeting.

My last story comes from saturday when my wife, daughter and I went to eastern market in detroit. Long story short, I have a Mario Battali cook book called Grill. Theer is a recipe thats calls for a 3" thick T Bone. Well I wanted to try it. We went to the central market in eastern market and went to the meat counter. I put my 3" thick 3 lb T Bone order in. It seemed like everyone in the meat counter stopped. It was like the passing of the holy grail. As the butcher finshed his duty, at least 3 of them starting bowing proclaiming " We are not worthy". It was a lot of fun.

All in All a pretty fun week.