Good Friends Talking the Day Away
Oh yes, it was another day of clouds that broke open for rain right over the noon hour. Today plans had been made to visit the Hickory Inn for noon lunch. The previous Brown County Assessor Judy Friesen and the current Nicollet County Assessor Doreen Pehrson came for a visit to St. James. The three of us gals had all worked our way through assessors offices beginning as clerks and appraisers until we reached the desks where the buck stopped. Ironically, the three of us were all appointed in 1988, and with business meetings formed what has been a lasting friendship. There is only so much business you can talk about and perhaps as women always do, we found common interests that had nothing to do with market values, ratios and percentages.
While many of the fellows at business meetings took the event into the evenings, the three of us would scope out nurseries and greenhouses to see what could be added to our yards. The friendship has celebrated births of grandchildren, deaths of parents and given each other moral support in leading departments that never did or will win popularity contests.
The day was wonderful and we have agreed to try and get together in mid July when the temps are bound to be warm enough to enjoy walking through each other’s gardens to see how the green thumbs are doing. It’s a good thing.