I had a call from The VP at 7am, (he is on vacation until January something) So being prompt I got right back to him...at 9am. I headed to the Equinox for Breakfast and to wait for him. In case you are not aware of it, it takes him a long time to get dressed, clean and polish his bike, and inspect his yard for wayward leaves and such before he hits the road.
Breakfast was free, a Christmas gift from the Morning waitress. Done eating I went out to the bike, had a smoke, watched traffic go by, had another smoke, watched some more traffic go by, went for a ride around Old Mistick Village, three times, then met him back at the E-Q before we hit the road. The sun was shining bright the temperature was up and he arrived in chaps, leathers, gloves, heavy sweatshirt and all other winterized accouterments. I told him he was a little over dressed.
As usual Danny had me lead, I am not sure if he has a sense of direction. We cruised up Coogan to JB road then down Pequotsepos and across the hilltop roads on the Stonington side of Mystic. As we rode the clouds rolled in , I stopped at the station (railroad) and changed my cutoff gloves for full gloves, Danny gloated.
From Mystic we cruised east through Stonington, Great town, lots of women running along with short shorts. We headed up South and North Anguilla to rte 184 and North Stonington. We cruised across 2 to Cossaduct Hill road (201), I turned onto Northwest Corner road and for the first time of the Day, Danny had no idea where we were. He had an issue with a vest chain so we stopped on 165, he fixed his vest, I topped off the tank and put on Chaps, more gloating.
West on 165, Dan suggested we stop by and see Rick, a right on McClimon rd, a right on Jewitt City road, this took us up to 164, although Danny was once again...lost. Love doing that to him.
Into Jewitt City on 201 out of Jewitt City on 138, in Sprague we took 207 west across rte 32, good speeds along the route and caught a green light for the 32 intersection. 207 through Lebanon, and we pulled up in the wilds at Ricks.
Now, here is where we get back to the title of today's entry, Danny does not like mess, everything...EVERYTHING has to be neat and tidy. Rick was sitting on a stump next to a wood splitter, he had a nice pile of split wood in front of him and more tossed in the wood shed, this bothered Dan. Danny doesn't like to see things not finished, if it isn't finished, it isn't Dunn. So off came the leathers, on went Ricks work gloves and he went to work. I fed wood to Rick, and tossed those that did not need splitting to Dan. The sun was out now and it was warm and toasty. Dan stacked everything that wasn't stacked when we arrived and everything Rick split while we were there.
At about 1:15pm we said our goodbyes to Rick and headed out, Danny suggested we take 207 and 16 over to Colchester then 85 back, I suggested that he should do that, but it made no sense for me to go to Colchester when I live in Mystic, so at the end of Clubhouse road we went our separate ways.
Does this story have a moral....no
Does it have a reason that it was written, sure, I was at work, and I was bored.
Does it have a message, definitely, if you are in the middle of a project, doesn't matter what, and there is cleaning up involved, invite Danny over for a visit, don't tell him why you are really inviting him, just tell him it's to visit. When he gets there, I guarantee he will take care of what ever needs cleaning up.
If you need more proof of this, ask Tom. when they were working on the club, Danny went around cleaning up the area, picking up wood scraps and burning them, even scraps that weren't scraps, small pieces to be used elsewhere went away, Notes with measurements went away.
Call him, he lives to tidy up, I'll bet even Vanessa will tell you, he makes a wonderful wife.
klay
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