Tarmac debut, 2011

Photo by Katie

Warm weather heralded the first tarmac party of the season at 5 p.m. tonight on the Abbey Point cul-de-sac. Attendance was relatively sparse, given the short notice and the many spring-time activities affecting active non-snowbird residents of this brave Minnesota community.
But Joe and Mina (right), who actually attended today's afternoon game, were there to give an unvarnished assessment of the Minnesota Twins' losing effort and also had time to advise fellow tarmackers on the ins and outs of Medicare and Social Security signups, now that more and more Abbey Pointers qualify for that challenge.
In other news, we learned that the Best Buy Geek Squad installed a new television set at Joe and Mina's residence yesterday. Concerned neighbors had witnessed curious traffic in VW bugs and vans converging at their townhouse Tuesday. Tonight, concerned neighbors were told that additional management and technical help had been electronically summoned to the property when the Best Buy Geeks learned that Mina cheerfully served breakfast treats with her hot coffee.
Joe, a former boxer, loves his new Best Buy tv set up. Joe's a cable company's dream, he has to order all the extra channels just so that he can access the only channel that carries real boxing action. Did we mention that Joe's a real boxer? Yes he is. They even named underpants after him.
The Abbey Point crowd eagerly anticipates the arrival of at least a half-dozen snowbirds who spend the winter in warmer climes in Arizona and Florida: upon their arrival, we'll discuss the gaping pothole formed in our tarmac, caused by winter frost heaves in their absence.
Tonight, many attendees were surprised that, in light of recent national news events, and despite the fact that the tarmac event was convened and attended by distinguished retired air traffic controllers, relatively little time was wasted in belittling or joshing the nation's Guardians of the Sky.