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No chills at Chili Cook-Off – hot recipes sure to warm up crowds
A lonely tractor cleared the weeds and debris last week in the Civic Center area as signs were posted and fences erected in preparation for the 20th Annual Kiwanis Chili Cook-Off, a Labor Day weekend tradition that culminates the summer season for Malibu.
Festivities, including multiple bands, food, drinks, raffling of prizes, carnival rides and the infamous chili cooking contests, are planned for this weekend, beginning with the carnival, Friday at 6 p.m.
This Malibu mainstay is entirely organized by 15 members of the Malibu Kiwanis Club. “We each have three different jobs,” said Nidra Winger, Kiwanis board of directors member, of the club’s preparation for the event.
“I have been at the Chili Cook-Off 20 years and never tasted the chili because I am so busy,” she said.
While chili chefs of all kinds battle over steaming stoves in this internationally renowned event for chili cooks, and Malibuites put their taste buds to the test, a 2001 Porsche Boxster will be displayed, enticing this year’s raffle contestants.
Kathleen Quinlan, star of TV’s “Family Law,” will pick the winning ticket for the Porsche.
The Malibu Kiwanis will buy or bought the car from Ogner Motors and have to sell at least 500 tickets ahead of time just to get the event underway.
But raffle tickets, at $100 each, can still be purchased at the front gates until 3 p.m., Sunday. It is not unusual for people to buy last minute tickets, said Winger.
The Kiwanis Club is a service club comprised of business and community members that offer up their time and resources to raise money. The funds are given back to the community to other nonprofit organizations, explained Winger. “We focus on children’s organizations,” she said.
Baseball programs, the Boys and Girls Club, schools, the library and the Garden Club are among the beneficiaries of this philanthropic organization.
Winger, who was the first female president at the Malibu club in 1993, said, “We will have a chili contest on both days, Saturday and Sunday.”
This year’s event will offer entertainment for the young, old and all ages in between. A virtual spectrum of music styles, including pop dance, new country, hip-hop, swing, blues, reggae and ethnic rock, will be featured.
For chili cooks, prizes will be given both Saturday and Sunday.
“Winners can go on to the world champion chili cooking contests,” said Winger.
Pepperdine’s small size, nurturing environment attracts students
University has capped enrollment, keeping class levels low. The average class size is 17, and the faculty to student ratio is 1 to 13.On Monday, about 2,700 new and returning students attended classes at Pepperdine University, with 683 freshmen and transfers attending Seaver College–the main component of Pepperdine’s Malibu campus.
Pepperdine is composed of five schools and colleges, but not all are in Malibu.
Seaver College, the School of Law and the School of Public Policy are located on the Malibu campus while the Graziadio School of Business and Management and the Graduate School of Education and Psychology are headquartered at Pepperdine’s West Los Angeles facility. However, students at the West L.A. facilities can reside on the Malibu campus if they wish.
Presently, the university continues to expand and a new Drescher Graduate Campus is under construction at the Malibu site.
“The majority of students come because the school offers a smaller college and university environment,” said Mike Truschke, director of admissions for Seaver College.
“The academic and the personal touch that you get here certainly is important,” he explained.
Amber McKinney, a senior who will major in biology, lives on the Malibu campus and said she enjoys the fellowship and community feeling Pepperdine has to offer.
“I chose Pepperdine because it’s a close-knit community,” she explained. “There is always somebody who truly cares without being smothering.”
The university has capped enrollment to keep Seaver College at a relatively small size, said Pepperdine University President Andrew Benton.
The average class size is 17, and the faculty to student ratio is 1 to 13.
Two-thirds of the students will live on campus, said Truschke. These students are usually between 18 and 22 years old and approximately 50 percent come from California, 40 percent from other states and 10 percent travel from other countries.
“The most popular majors are business administration, biology and sports medicine,” said Truschke. “Students are choosing us for our academics and our international programs.”
Aside from staying at the Malibu campus, more than 50 percent of the students will study abroad for a semester or two, given that Pepperdine has campuses in five other countries as well.
Incoming students average a 3.8 GPA and score 1,270 on the SATs but “we don’t have a minimum criteria,” said Truschke, regarding the scores of incoming students.
The cost to attend the university this year, including tuition, room and board, and student fees, totals $32,830, but does not cover individual spending money.
Eighty percent of the students are on some form of scholarship, said Truschke. These scholarships come in various forms from either university-sponsored scholarships that offer athletic, academic and special achievement scholarships, or state and federally funded sources.
The scholarships are awarded on a need and merit basis. The academic scholarships are typically awarded to the top 1 or 2 percent of students for each incoming classes.
The school also has a small number of part-time students. Anyone who take less than 12 units, pay $785 per unit.
On Friday the university completed a 33,000 square foot science facility that received the stamp of approval from the county and is now open.
“My greatest interest is in ensuring that students have the best possible experience in the classroom and extra-curricular activities,” said Benton, who is a hands-on president.
This term, aside from his presidential responsibility, Benton teaches a course entitled “The Legal Environment of Business” to 22 students.
Recipes from across the pond
Thanks for all the requests for French recipes mentioned in this column. I was able to wheedle only a few out my French friends and none directly from the restaurants. Although Mimi promised to give me her Trouffade secrets, I never got them. So after I got home, I tried out a few that were given to me orally in French. How scary is that? They all seemed to have lost a little something in the translation and some of the French ingredients are virtually impossible to find here. Fromage blanc is sold in most French markets in the dairy case near the yogurt, which it slightly resembles. Actually, you can substitute ricotta in most recipes.
Anyway, I’m happy to share these, along with my comments on the results from the test-kitchen at Chez Pam.
Trouffade
1 large finely minced or sliced onion
1-1/2 lbs. thinly sliced potatoes
1-1/4 cups fromage blanc (ricotta, shredded cantal, whatever)
1 cup crumbled bacon (real or faux)
Lightly saut onion in a little olive oil. Layer all ingredients in an oiled ovenproof dish. Brush potatoes with oil or melted butter, sprinkle with salt and pepper. (Add dill and chives if you like.) Finish with cheese layer.
Bake 65 minutes at 375 degrees. Serve with a green salad, sliced ham (for carnivores) and crusty French bread.
You can make this dish out of leftover baked potatoes, cottage fries or even coarsely mashed potatoes. Layer with sauted onion, crumbled bacon and cheese and cut the baking time to 20 minutes, or maybe 30 if the potatoes have been refrigerated.
Trouffade resembles a dish called Rapee Morvandelle, only it is much easier to make and, of course, eggless. Julia Child’s recipe in “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” calls for shredding the peeled raw potatoes. This is a real test of one’s devotion to traditional food preparation. Potatoes do not take kindly to this treatment and show their displeasure by immediately turning a vile reddish brown and weeping profusely, necessitating much squeezing and blotting in paper towels. Yuck. The onions and cubed ham must be sauted in oil and butter; then the eggs are beaten with whipping cream, garlic, herbs and grated Swiss cheese. The whole mess, er melange, is then poured into a baking dish lined with foaming butter, dotted on top with more butter and baked for 30 or 40 minutes. Everyone loves it, but until now, I’ve made this dish only once a year (using the leftover Easter ham). From now on it will be Trouffade–much easier and every bit as good.
Picnic Potato Salad
10 or 12 small potatoes (Yukon Gold, white or red)
1 cup onion finely diced
2 cups strong beef broth
1 bunch fresh chopped parsley
For the dressing, mayonnaise thinned to taste with milk, plain yogurt, or a mild vinaigrette
Boil the potatoes about 20 minutes (do not overcook). Drain and cool just to handle comfortably. Slip off the skins, cube and place in a glass or ceramic bowl, cover with broth and soak at least two hours at room temperature or overnight in the fridge. Drain and combine with onion, parsley (and chives or other herbs to taste). Gradually add dressing and toss lightly.
Yukon Gold potatoes are great for this because they keep their firm texture even if inadvertently overcooked. In trying to duplicate the taste and consistency of the salad I had in France, I found the dressing most difficult. The gentleman who made it said he used just a little mayonnaise, but I tried several types and they were all too thick and strong in flavor. The secret is to keep the flavor of the dressing from overpowering the flavor of the broth, so choose the mildest mayo you can find and work from there. If you’re making this for vegans, use vegetable broth, and if they are averse to mayonnaise, try a very mild, thin yogurt dressing. Avoid the impulse to salt. Opt instead for a little pepper, if you must. But keep it simple, at least on the first attempt.
Bon chance!
Malibu student gets a real lesson at sea
Griffin Brown, a 14-year-old Malibu High School student, didn’t spend this summer at the beach the way most teenagers did. Instead, he embarked on an adventure that he will long remember.
Griffin set sail in Boston aboard the Spirit of Massachusetts, a 125-foot two-masted schooner built in 1984 for the Ocean Classroom. The ship is a replica of the high-speed Fredonia, a renowned 19th century Gloucester fishing schooner.
Bound for the Canadian Maritime Provinces via New England, Griffin was a participant of the Ocean Classroom’s Summer Term 2001 at Sea, the nation’s only fully accredited high school at sea program.
Recognizing his mother, Cathy Caballero, for discovering this challenging and educational sailing experience in Atlantic Monthly Magazine, Griffin wasn’t sure what he was in for when he decided to participate.
“The voyage turned out to be harder than I expected,” confesses the young teenager, who was gone for six weeks, “because it was a lot of work. There was so much to learn about sailing and I was responsible to keep up with my academic work, too.”
The Ocean Classroom is a complete semester at sea for high school students and post-graduates, fully accredited by Proctor Academy of Andover New Hampshire and offered in cooperation with South Street Seaport Museum and the Allied Whale Research Center. Grades, credits and transcripts are sent to the student’s high school. It has received national awards for excellence in education.
No stranger to the sea, Griffin grew up in Malibu, surfing since age 11, and has always had an appreciation for the ocean.
Right from the start, the 16 students he set sail with became a team. The 10 girls and six boys, ages 14-19, gathered in small groups to study marine science, maritime history, navigation, whaling history and research, as well as the fisheries of the regions, while calling at 10 ports. Their first landing was at St. John’s, Newfoundland, with more stops at fisheries in the Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy, St. Pierre and Lunenburg. Essential to learning was the history of the many ports visited.
A typical day on his seafaring journey was an early rise for six hours of morning watch with the professional crew, handling sails, hauling lines, navigating and steering within the traditions of the tall ships.
Next came three hours of demanding class study, collecting information, preparation for marine science projects, literature lessons and discussions, ship responsibilities, homework assignments, socializing and the long-awaited time to sleep.
“The ocean was the medium for learning, adventure and travel for each student’s personal discovery,” relates faculty member Devri Byrom, who specializes in marine science education and has been a major contributor to the courses of the Ocean Classroom and a leader in underwater research expeditions.
Detailing that students had a comprehensive study load at sea that included sea-related literature, with reading and discussion of Kipling’s “Captain Courageous” and Farley Mowat’s “The Boat That Wouldn’t Float,” she mentioned that sea poetry and sea shanties were learned and sung, too.
“Although Griffin was one of the youngest students, he was an active participant,” said Byron. “He and his partner, Victoria Ford from Tennessee, created an outstanding mixed-media replica of a traditional whaling vessel from gathered pieces of bark, collected on beaches, intermingled with toothpicks, then glued and varnished.”
She added, “Griffin was an able-bodied deck hand, who found personal satisfaction with navigation skills and seamanship.”
Although he thought the voyage quite long, “The whole trip will affect my life,” stated Griffin. “It made me more interested in sailing and more knowledgeable about the sea. I will always remember the excitement I felt when I climbed to the top of the mast to tend the sails. I also learned time management, as a way to balance learning, sailing, homework and sleep.”
His fascination with whales emerged into a project relating to issues pertaining to the whaling industry, specifically the humpback whales; conducting interviews in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia with experts in the field. Gloucester, the small fishing port where so many fishermen lost their lives, made a lasting impression on him. As his final project, Griffin developed a term paper on the “Evolution of the Dread Naught Battleship.”
The memory of these authentic sea experiences and the lessons relating to the ocean will remain with this Malibu youth for the rest of his life.
PCH becoming highway of death
Recent accidents spur residents to ask for measures to be taken to improve safety on PCH. A horrendous accident last week, leaving one dead and another victim severely injured, as well as numerous other injury accidents on Pacific Coast Highway, has left residents alarmed about the recent increase of traffic collisions on the highway.
Although a current sheriff’s report stated that accidents in Malibu have dropped from last year, there has been a sudden rise in accidents along PCH during the past few weeks.
“I’m not sure what’s causing the problems,” said Sgt. Kevin Mauch, of the Lost Hills/Malibu Sheriff’s Station, with dry humor, “but it’s generally not the pole.”
In 1999, Rep. Brad Sherman proposed that $650,00 from the 1998 federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century be used to fund safety improvements along PCH. The proverbial “last straw” that prompted the proposal came from the 1999 deaths of 16-year-old Sabrina Csato, who was killed by a drunk driver, and Pepperdine students Kimberly Ellis and Jeannine Gregory, all of whom died on PCH. The City of Malibu and Caltrans worked together to initiate several projects.
Although some of the improvements have been completed, such as “rumble strips” along the median that help keep drivers awake, a raised median line from Zuma Beach to Morning View Drive (more of a barrier than rumble strips), a study of left-turn and U-turn movement along the highway and a signal upgrade at Malibu Canyon, some of the projects seem to be taking forever to finish.
Laurie Newman, senior deputy in charge of transportation matters for California state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, who was instrumental in getting the funding, said there are still details to be negotiated between Caltrans and Malibu that has considerably slowed down completion of improvements.
“The government moves slowly,” Newman said with some irony.
A delay in one improvement, a “smart crosswalk” in front of Colony House Liquor at 22523 PCH, one of three planned along the highway, had Colony co-owner George Alti clearly incensed. “How long will it take?” he asked angrily. “A lot of accidents happen here. I see blind people and old people crossing the street all the time. I’ve gone out and helped people cross the street here.” There was a four-car crash last week in front of Colony House Liquor. Alti said that every day he hears at least four or five cars brake hard for pedestrians. “They put white paint on the road but it doesn’t do any good.”
Smart crosswalks include overhead cautionary lights and ground level imbedded lighting that will illuminate the walk area when a pedestrian crosses the highway. The other two will be installed just east of Carbon Canyon and in the Point Dume area.
“The crosswalks will be in place by end of the year,” assured Newman.
After several postponements, the Traffic Information Emergency Radio Station that will update drivers about PCH and canyon road conditions, as well as weather and other potential effects on traffic, is in place and will be completed “any day now,” said Newman. According to Mauch, the repeater just needs to be installed which will broadcast the updates as far as the Ventura Freeway in Calabasas.
Still in the works are the eastbound Paradise Cove right-turn deceleration lane (like an on-ramp), a Malibu Canyon/PCH video detection system to monitor signal operations, which is installed but not yet operational, and a speed advisory board that displays the speeds motorists are traveling as they pass by.
The remaining money will be used to implement the left-turn and U-turn study recommendations, and to fund other safety-related improvements that Caltrans and the City of Malibu agree should be implemented in the future.
Planting an artful garden in the New World
When you’ve walked in Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny, gazed at the lily pads from the Japanese footbridge and marveled at sky-high trellises entwined with roses, it’s hard to come home to Southern California’s arid mountain landscape.
I was actually thinking I could incorporate some of Monet’s planting designs in my garden. Well, not the lily pond, of course–Monet got permission to divert water from a river, for Pete’s sake. First of all, there’s no river nearby, and if there were, getting permission to use some of it would bring enough grief from environmentalists to make me give up gardening altogether. And all those trellises would look pretty stupid on my rugged hillsides. Besides, I’ll bet Monet’s six gardeners never had to deal with gophers.
While I was ogling those magnificent French gardens, the gophers were living high on the hostas, so to speak. Just about everything not planted in chicken wire was doomed. Whole tomato plants, two or three feet tall, just disappeared, sucked whole into the tunnels of death. Perennials and annuals alike met their demise: nemesias, marigolds, Shasta daisies, zinnias, cosmos all gone without a trace. I’ve set Macabee traps till my fingers were bloody, installed sonic harassers that drove only me crazy, pumped their tunnels full of truck exhaust (the carbon monoxide did slow them down a bit) and fed them Juicy Fruit chewing gum in quantities that would choke Godzilla. Nada! Zip! Zilch! Nourished by my organic vegetables, the wretched rodents have flourished.
Anyway, the Monet thing won’t fly here because, duh, no water. Still many of the flowers that thrive there can get along with much less rainfall and irrigation.
So here’s the plan. Think Vertical. Forget seed packets that say space 12 inches apart. Plant those puppies so close together they couldn’t spread if they wanted to. Heaven forbid a little dirt might show in between. Monet’s flowers lean on stakes and trellises and walls and each other. And they grow to astonishing heights. Plain old dahlias, planted three or four to a stake, are eyeball to eyeball with the average 12-year-old. And French gardeners aren’t stuffy about mixing them up socially, so to speak–highbrow roses are at nose level with common sunflowers and lowly geraniums and nasturtiums bloom at their feet. Of course, we would never plant invasive exotics like nasturtiums anyway. Would we? Well, maybe only on a rocky, shady hillside that’s 10 miles from the nearest state park.
Another strategy used in the impressionist’s famous garden is to train flowering shrubs into trees, again to bring the maximum floral effect up to eye level. Solanum (potato vine), its delicate purple flowers and creamy centers, and lantana, in all its various colors, are perfect choices for this design. And raising the planting beds, while enriching the soil, also enhances the vertical effect. In Monet’s day, the beds would have been enriched with manure, courtesy of local livestock (or perhaps his own hens).
Monet’s famous green Japanese bridge has been almost consumed by wisteria vines, which must be spectacular when in full bloom. My experience with wisteria is less glorious. Our old ranch house had a wisteria growing up its south-facing wall that sported flashy violet flowers in late spring. It also scraped the shingles off the roof, poked its tentacles in between the clapboard siding and reached out to touch (and strangle) a flowering plum tree nearby. My advice is to forget the wisteria unless you have an old railroad trestle to hang it on or an ugly shed you want to camouflage. Even then, you may someday have to take an ax to it.
In Monet’s garden, century-old trees create a lovely canopy of dappled shade for begonias and impatiens. Those of us who live in newer houses will not likely be able to duplicate that effect, at least not for a decade or two. But it couldn’t hurt to plant a few sycamore or cottonwood and hope for the best. Bon jardin.
Malibu Seen
CAUSE FOR CONCERN
Derek Alpert’s Concern Foundation continues to pull in big bucks in the fight against cancer. Concern’s festive fundraiser at Paramount Pictures raised a whopping $1.2 million.
The celebrity-studded evening took place at the studio’s New York Street back lot and was entitled, “The Wonderful World of Sports-and Olympic Effort to Conquer Cancer.” Noted orthopedic surgeon and Los Angeles Clippers team physician, Dr. Tony Daly, was this year’s honoree. The respected doctor was hailed for his various humanitarian good works in general and the time and money he has devoted to eradicating cancer in particular.
The truly courageous took their turns at the karaoke corner where they belted out favorites like “New York, New York,” while food fans sampled a three-block spread that catered to every conceivable taste.
Thirty-six L.A. area eateries served up everything from chilled summer soup to pine nut pasta. Crowds gathered as they rolled them up at Hana Sushi and carved up a storm at Lawry’s. But the longest lines formed at an unlikely spot–not for fresh ahi or roasted leg of lamb, but the humble Pink’s hot dog. So what’s the big attraction? “It’s all beef, it’s juicy and it snaps when you bite into it,” explained Pink’s proprietor. “You can have roast beef any day, but you don’t always come across Pinks.” Okay, get ’em while they’re hot!
GLOBAL WARMING
Speaking of good deeds, Malibu’s Pierce Brosnan continues to live up to his reputation as one of the city’s most tireless activists on the international scene. The Bond Man has contributed time and money to numerous humanitarian and environmental causes and doesn’t seem to overlook an opportunity–even when it comes to his own wedding.
Brosnan will reportedly open a vocational school in Katmandu for Tibetans in exile with the money raised from the coverage of his recent wedding to longtime love Keely Shaye Smith.
MASKS AND MAGIC
The Starlight Children’s Foundation is pulling out all the stops for what could well be one of the year’s splashiest celebrations. On Sept. 8, the organization will host an authentic Venetian ball, complete with Venetian chandeliers, carpets, tapestries, masks, costumes and performers.
“We are going to recreate a true Venetian ball,” said organizer Pascale Fortunat. “There has never been anything like it. If you don’t have the time to go to Venice, we will bring Venice to you. ” So If you’re too busy for that quick romantic get away to Europe this summer, take heart. The Venetian Ball may be just the ticket. Buon viaggio!
Enviro groups flock to Farmer’s Market
The Wetlands Action Network circulated a petition at the market to curtail development in the historical Malibu Creek flood plain, Point Dume coastal prairie and Trancas lagoon /prairie areas.
Environmental groups, some with coffers filled from recently released state bond money, were out in full force at the Malibu Farmers’ Market on Sunday with booths set up to share ecology information with visitors.
The Malibu Coastal Land Conservancy had Mark Konopaske sharing information about its goal of acquiring land from developers for open space and parks (raising funds separately from the $15 million open-land/parks bond measure going before voters in November).
However, Ozzie Silna, MCLC vice president, was quick to point out that the conservancy was not totally opposed to development.
“I would like to see, besides the hotel, at least another 250,000 square feet of development in the City Hall area,” he said. “We are not a no-growth organization.”
Fundraisers for Las Flores Creek Park are attempting to raise donations from the Malibu community to complement the $550,000 funding from Proposition 13 for creek restoration, according to volunteer Margaret Smith-Waljeski. The donations would be used for park amenities such as picnic benches, a butterfly garden, play areas and a footbridge to cross over the creek from parking on Rambla Pacifico.
“You would be able to walk along the creek–there’s so few places where you can do that now,” she said. Volunteers were busy distributing maps of the proposed creek restoration.
Wetlands Action Network had a petition to sign for saving several endangered or threatened species of birds, including white-tailed kites, red-tailed hawks, Cooper’s hawks, great blue herons, egrets and red-shouldered hawks, by curtailing development in the historical Malibu Creek flood plain, Point Dume coastal prairie and Trancas lagoon/prairie areas.
“Birds have to have more than their nesting site,” said Marcia Hanscom, who was working the booth. “They need foraging sites.”
The Mountains Restoration Trust, which received $189,000 from Prop. 12 funds, wants to remove 216 patches of non-native bamboo called arundo that clogs creeks, thereby restoring 105 acres of creek areas.
In side-by-side displays, Heal the Bay and the Santa Monica BayKeeper organizers talked to market-goers about restoring Ballona Creek, water testing and environmental issues surrounding Ahmanson Ranch. The organizations also have what Kimberly Oliver, working the Baykeeper’s booth, calls “an interactive program” to restore kelp forests along the coast, where grade-schoolers grow kelp at their schools that will be used for replanting.
A call to California Coastal Cleanup Day by both organizations urged people to participate in the trashy event, which takes place on Sept. 15, 9 a.m. – noon. Team leaders will hand out cleanup supplies to volunteers for trash removal on beaches from San Clemente to Zuma.
State Parks interpreter Kristen Perry greeted interested onlookers at the California State Parks display. She said she takes facts about the environment and “weaves them into interesting stories” so everyone can understand environmental issues. “I want to make sure everyone knows about the parks and that they’re welcome to visit them,” she said. Through State Parks, Perry also organizes hikes, campfire programs and outreach programs for inner city children.
The Surfrider Foundation, dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the beaches, was circulating a brochure called “20 Ways to Cleaner Oceans and Beaches.”
Earthwatch, a volunteer organization that sends teams of assistants all over the world to help researchers in the field, was signing up people for their newsletter and advertising their expeditions.
And lastly, the City of Malibu had the unglamorous but
One small step for Malibu
No disrespect to letter writers who’ve been spending their summer vacation telling people to vote “No” on the parks and land bond issue, but I’m still voting “Yes” because the following “No” arguments aren’t persuasive.
1. $15 million isn’t enough to buy every piece of land and build every facility necessary, so vote “No” and get nothing we need.
2. The bond doesn’t state everything we need in specific order, so vote “No” and get nothing we need.
3. The bond did not explicitly promise the money for my personal hobby, so vote “No” and get nothing we need.
Sorry, folks, but I can live with the fact that no one in life gets everything they want in exactly the way they want it. A town that has some wholesome and beautiful community-sponsored places is better than a town that has none.
This parks and land bond is the beginning of Malibu people using our own resources to provide for our own needs. It has been refreshing, even inspiring, to see people from so many different interests agree to work together toward that goal. So, forgive me if I don’t read any more complaints. I’m on my way to the community park where I can picnic and watch kids play soccer or baseball, and seniors stroll and do tai chi, and dogs fetch a Frisbee and . . .oh, never mind. Gotta vote “Yes” first.
Fred Ex
