Checking the calendar, I see that today
should have been the kickoff of the Memorial Day weekend. It is typically the
second biggest weekend on Grand Lake (second only to Fourth of July) when all
the Tulsa yuppies would come up to their lake houses and tool about the lake
before retiring for a nice supper at the local yacht club… while I would drive
home in my pimped out 2003 Honda Civic to eat Hamburger Helper and day old
bread. As you can tell, I am not bitter or jealous at all. But all that changed
when Patient Zero showed up at Grand Lake…
Secretly, I have this theory that this
whole mess started down in Tulsa. Like the apocalypse was just starting and
people didn’t know what was going on yet. Then someone disoriented and driven
mad by the fever bites one of those a-holes with a lake house while he was
filling up his Hummer and hauling his two new Sea-Doos up to the lake. The guy
gets away from the zom and gets in the Hummer with his wife, Muffy, and their
miniature Corgi named something stupid like Biscuit or Sir Reginald. You know,
a little d-bag like that. And it was one of those nose-in-the-air turd burglars
that brought this to our doorstep. Like I said, I am not bitter or jealous.
Of course, I say that jokingly but if
Tulsa did get quarantined and sealed off, you can see how the virus could
easily hop a barricade and be beyond the quarantine zone by more than an hour
north and east.
Well, today, Memorial Day barely seems
like a blip on the radar. The whole holiday just doesn’t seem to have any real
meaning anymore but it seems like a lot of the crew are bound and determined to
make something of it. A lot of the girls have been active this morning, running
up and down the ladder we have propped against the ice cream cooler which leads
up to the roof access.
I went up there to sneak a peek to see
what they are up to. If you stay in the center of the roof and don’t work too
hard to look over the walls down into the abyss, you can almost forget what is
going on. They have even been decorating with things like the tiki torches,
cintronella candles, and some inflatable pools toys just to make things pop.
They have flags waving and they have used the Memorial Day flowers and wreaths
to try to spread some more cheer.
Then I learned more of their plan.
They have coolers set aside to fill
with ice along with some nice reserves of soft drinks (name brand!) and
expensive level beer. They have the grills all set up for cooking and I know
for a fact that Fred has had some prime choice cuts of steak set aside for
this. He pull me into the Meat Department and showed me something called kobe
beef that I have never even heard of before. They are gathering up the top
shelf paper plates and plastic forks. The plan is to get our bellies full of
beef, brats, beer, and all sorts of tasty sweet treats. It is going to be a
wonderful weekend where hopefully we can just forget about everything horrible
in the world right now…
As of right now, I am really looking
forward to the celebration tomorrow.
