Mealtime at Harmony

Norm & Lou call their Canadian home "Harmony." They are very careful about what they eat at Harmony and elsewhere, preferring a low-fat style for which they grow their own salad materials, season their organic natural earth-tone foods with unknown liquids and granulated solids, etc. It is a matter of faith as well as nutrition. None of the names sound familiar to a man who was raised in the industrialized post-war West.

To an American carnivore -- one who likes to eat chili at Hard Times Cafe with Mike in Old Town, enjoy an occasional burger at Steak n Shake or Five Guys -- table time discussion at Norn & Lou's place sounds like this:

Lou: Norm, how do you like the way I boiled the galumph?

Norm: Just fine but the rath juice tastes a little like the snozzlewart we had last week.

Lou: Oh! Well, next time I will add some vorpalad to the jaxo.

Norm: Okay, but be sure not to oversteam the dudlesak.

Lou: Right. Tomorrow I’ll go to the store and get some snarts, too.

Norm: Yea, if they are in season. If not, maybe some varse roots.

Lou: John, if you want something to add some flavor to the snoddle, there is some vatsnaper in the bottle by the sillabub.

I am on the way out to The FBI for a burger.

JB

March 2, 2014: That was November 2004, over 9 years ago. Today Norm and Lou live in a third-floor condo in Qualicum Beach, about 14 miles south of Bowser, which was their home. As I write this, Norm’s activities are limited by heart disease and joint pain. He sleeps most of the time, according to Lou. I visited there July 10-18, 2013 to see their new place (and most of the U.S. between NY and BC).