JACK, STEVE AND ROXANEA couple of weeks ago we attended the marriage of Roxane Bartelt and Steve Platterer in West Bend WI. It was a glorious event, and if Jack could have, he would have been Best Horse. Every human there joined forces to merrily jubilate and put on wonderful feed-bags.
Roxane well-sustained the sewer raccoon occupants - meaning the editor and his family - with a seemingly endless series of residential real estate transactions, as she wended her way, unbeknownst to her, to Racine and Kenosha libraries - for Roxane IS a librarian - and into the eventual arms of Steve, her first husband, another librarian who also bears arms as a private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalary Civil War reenactment society. http://www.1stwisconsincav.org/.
Roxane is naught if not an all-or-nothing companion, even when it came to joining and supporting Steve in his enactment pursuits. She made her costume to compliment his and attends the battles and events of the society with Steve, faithfully.
The only caveat for Roxane is that she doesn't sleep in tents. Has not willingly ever, and she maintains, never will. She was, pre-Steve, a garrulous and noble celebrant at various week-end church camping trips also attended by the SR editor and family, sat around many campfires, as she now does with her husband, singing songs, toasting marshmallows, and eventually growing weary enough to retire - - -but, always to her motel room.
My brand-new sewer raccoon hat is off to the newly-weds, to Roxane, a true friend, a trooper. I will be seeing her and newer & getting-to-be good friend Steve at The Three Brothers restaurant in Bayview WI on May 24th. Roxane, an accomplice in many things, also does Serbian. [Alas, Jack will be absent but will be there in spirit, wherever they go. For Roxane it's no tents, but otherwise: Whither Thou Goest.....]
The saying on Steve the librarian's correspondence is:
TROUBLE RATHER THE TIGER IN HIS LAIR
THAN THE SAGE AMONGST HIS BOOKS.
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