Later, in the parking lot, Laurie presented this plant to the birthday girl. Although Stan was able to suspend the plant with one arm and take this picture with the other, he neglected to get the name of the plant, so that detail will wait until some lovely reader updates this.
After, Laurie invited us back to the newspaper office to tape a greeting to longtime employee Lorris Thornton, who will be retiring soon. As retirees ourselves, we had plenty of time to do this and wished Lorris a happy happy into a video camera set up for that purpose.
(Whatever happened to Thank You notes?)
