What's For Dinner
This was the name of the Hillary Drive meal involving stewed tomatoes, boiled onions, and a low quality cut of beef.
What is "Swiss Steak"?
This tree-dwelling rodent was the focus of Granpda Yehl's most recent de-infestation project in the attic of the shed.
What the "squirrel"?
This was the name of the green handheld device in the 1980s that was highly sought after for electronically recreating a certain type of autumn sport.
What is "Football 2"?
This was the cousin responsible for staining the living room curtains with red punch during a Christmas Eve party that got out of control.
Who was Darren?
This classic bicycle brand describes the last 2-wheeled vehicle to be stored in the garage attic, shortly before its sudden collapse one early Sunday morning in the autumn.
What is a "Schwinn"?
This was the alternative, non-potato filling for a certain polish dumpling called a "prerogie".
What is cabbage?
This nocturnal, garden-ravaging pest was (ironically) the result of the very compost pile that Grandpa Yehl created to nourish his garden.
What is the "raccoon"?
This is what Grandpa Yehl yelled shortly before diving, fully clothed, into Great Grandpa and Grandma Leo and Ann's above-ground pool.
What is "Here comes flipper!"?
This was the temperature of the beer offered by Grandpa Yehl to Shawn, after he just endured a high-stakes 13-hour road trip to Chili in the dead of summer.
What is "warm"? Or what is "room temperature"?
This child-saving device, designed specifically to save the lives of children in motor vehicle accidents until age 8, was only used by the Yehls until age 3. (Or, in some cases, not at all.)
What is the "carseat"?
This farmer furnished the Yehls with multiple "half-cows" and "whole-cows" during their years of growth and development on Hillary Drive
Who was Bob Holmes?
This domesticated mammal who lived in the Bolam's old house was responsible for attacking Grandpa Yehl and creating a baseball-sized hematoma on his left hip.
What is the "dog"?
This particular fruit was the focus of multiple day-trips to procure its ripened filling in baked-pie form, while on yearly trips to Michigan.
What is the "cherry"?
This former piece of electronic furniture served a second life as a alcohol supply cabinet and makeshift "bar" in the living room--until it was eventually relocated to the basement as an art supply cabinet.
What is a TV?
This labor-saving device
What is the Chevy Astrovan?
This relatively recent word invention describes the breakfast creations conceived by Grandpa Yehl, using spare greens from the garden as well as, generally, two eggs.
What is a Tom-lette?
This winged creature inspired the rigging of pebble-filled milk jugs, whose manipulation via fishing line was intended to "scare" them off from Grandpa Yehl's grape vines.
What is a "crow"?
This summertime object was used on the backyard lawn to cool the bodies of Julie and Karen (as well as the feet of Grandma and Grandpa Yehl) before its eventual relocation behind the shed.
What is the blue kiddie-pool?
This was the brand AND flavor of Grandma Yehl's now legendary coffee creamer.
What is Coffee Mate Peppermint Mocha?
These winter recreational accessories were stacked within the back trunk of the Chevy Citation, during its maiden accident when it was sideswiped in an industrial parking lot.
What are "ski's"?
This packaged snack food serves as the traditional vehicle for consuming pickled herring.
What is a rye crisp?
This garden arthropod was targeted and systematically slaughtered by Tom Yehl through asphyxiation in a mason jar filled with gasoline.
What is a "potato bug"?
This was the designation for the Scale size of Grandpa Yehl's basement train selection.
What is "H.O."?
This brand of rosé wine was most frequently served in Grandma Yehl's wide-mouthed, pink champagne coupe glasses.
What is Lake Niagra?
These were the interior AND exterior colors of the much-discussed but never-realized new Station Wagon that was supposed to replace the aging Kingswood Estate.
That is "Cream Colored with a Blue Interior"?