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oldsalempost-blog · 10 months

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The Old Salem post

Our Local Tamassee-Salem SC Area News each Monday except holidays Contact: [email protected] Distributed to local businesses, town hall, library. Volume 7 Issue 28 Week of July 24, 2023 https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/oldsalempost-blog Lynne Martin Publishing

EDITOR: ** Did you know the Oconee County School District is conducting a survey that will affect our elementary school under the long range plans? There is a Plan A and Plan B, and a place for comments. You cannot put in comments without choosing a Plan A or Plan B. Both Plan A and Plan B are the same for closing the Keowee Elementary and Tamassee-Salem Elementary schools. I reached out to Amanda Holder, our district representative on the school board, to ask her how the message is getting out to those affected to take the survey, since Steve Hanvey, one of the school administrators told news reporters that not many surveys had been completed. LRM

From Amanda Holder: “I am one of five votes,” on the board. “I’m going to need a lot of feedback” from the Tamassee Elementary area. Please share the info on how to participate. See the following: GO TO SDOC.org SCROLL DOWN TO DISTRICT NEWS CLICK ON SDOC LONG RANGE BUILDING PLAN On the first slide, click at Public Feedback underlined SDOC LONG RANGE BUILDING SURVEY

Town of SALEM: Need Softball and Soccer players! Need Soccer ages 6 and under and 14 and under. Softball players ages 8 and under and 12 and under. Sign up at the Salem Town Hall. 944-2819. The children’s area at the Town park is closed for now for renovations. The picnic shelter can still be rented. NEWS: Check out Face Book Remembrance stories, Reflections of Yesteryears Gone by Brenda Dubose.

Recreation Department: Adult coed Softball game, July 29. Register and Pay at 5:30pm at the ballfield.

BLESSING BOX: Have you noticed the blue box located across the street from the Dollar General? This is the Salem Community Blessing Box. A blessing box is a way to give to those less fortunate. They take what they need and leave the rest for sharing to benefit others in need. The items are primarily non-perishable food, toiletries, and other necessities. Canned food items are best with the pop-top lid, ( no need for a can opener). Foods that are easy to prepare or already prepared are best. A list of items is located on the blessing box. There are brochures with helper information on free or reduced school lunches, childcare, and food banks. Cont next .....by J Young

Jottings from Jeannie: Thought you might need a laugh! So, here are some snappy captions printed on Tee-Shirts: * I HATE it when I see an OLD Person and soon realize that we went to HIGH School together. *Nurses CAN'T fix STUPID, but we CAN SEDATE IT! *Teachers don't teach for the INCOME, WE teach for the OUTCOME! *I thought that GROWING OLD would TAKE LONGER! *Scientists say the world is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons-- they forgot about all the MORONS! Oh! You Queens of Issaqueena! You Kings of Lake Keowee! Miz Jeannie love you so stay safe!!!

JOCASSEE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY,(JVBC) & COFFEE SHOP 13412 N Hwy 11 Open Wed–Sat-Sat 8am-9pm. Sun: 12pm-7pm. Events this week: Thurs: Food: KISS MY ASADA 5pm and OLD TIME JAM 6:30pm. Fri– PaChuy Food Truck at 5pm Music: McGaha & Lark at 6:30pm. Sat–Food: IRON PIG 12 pm—Music: Crank Dogs 6:30pm. Sun: Choc’s BBQ Food 12pm-7pm, Music: 2pm Neil Conway 4pm Peanut Butter Whiskey. More information call 864-873-0048

Pat’s Cash & Carry: Best Hot Dogs & Ice Cream Cones around.and more. Tues-Sat 11am-4pm 944-1445

SiSterS Restaurant: open Breakfast and Lunch Wed-Sat 7:30am-1:30 pm. Sun 9am-2pm. 944-8100

Conservation Corner: YOU can be the source of change in Northern Oconee from sprawl and unwanted consequences of un-thoughtful development. Let us think about conserving the area we live in instead of contributing to its eventual destruction for failure to take the opportunity to act. No area is immune to the effects of overdevelopment. It kills everything that has ever been special about rural havens. ...E Martin

Ashton Recalls: DAR SCHOOL STUDENT FROM 1942-46 RECALLS - (Seventeenth Installment of Pauline Kelley Cannon's Memoir). . .Earlier I mentioned Mr. Reiley being the shop teacher. He and the boys who worked in the shop made small boats for each of us to take down to Little River the week before we graduated and float them down to the bridge. We decorated them with emblems and flowers. I put a small American flag on mine, right at the very front. . .We also wrote wishes and dreams we hoped to accomplish after school. If our boat made it all the way to the bridge without getting hung up on the banks, those wishes and dreams were supposed to come true. . .My boat was one of the very few that made it to the bridge. Most everyone just let their boats stay in the river, but Ernest got mine as it went under the bridge. We made a vow to write to each other every day when we went home, and we wrote the vow on a slip of paper and put it in the boat. We kept that vow, too. . .TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

Sound of Freedom: This is a heart wrenching movie about human trafficking and the driven-passion of a man to risk his life to help these children. It brings an acute awareness of evil and darkness that no sound person wants to admit even exists. Go see this movie! It will continue to increase awareness of this crime against the innocent! What is even worse is that our beloved United States of American is the worst in human trafficking compared to the whole world.

EAGLES NEST ART CENTER , 501c3, 4 Eagle Lane, Salem DHEC kitchen available & rentals

TALENT SHOWCASE: August 12th. This will be a fun evening to show off your talents on stage. Please sign up by July 30th. Please call 864-280-1258, 864-888-5663, or email [email protected]. All ages welcomed!

SONGS of the COWBOY Trail- Aug. 19th, 7pm– A Tribute benefitting ENAC. Jef Wilson sings the songs of Gene Autry, Bob Wills, Cowboy Copas and others. $10 or Cowboy Dinner & Show $20.

CLASS REUNION: The T-S Class of 1978 is having their 45th Class Reunion at ENAC, Friday, July 28, 6pm-8pm. We are inviting former classmates, faculty and staff to stop by to share memories and a covered dish meal together.

SAVE THE DATEs: Sept 16th, 7pm next Oconee Mountain Opry, Oct 7th, 4pm-8pm Alumni Fall Gathering. Oct 14th 7pm Elvis Returns! See our eaglesnestartcenter.org website for more details and follow our posted events.

CHURCH NEWS Salem Methodist Church: Community Women’s Bible Study each Monday morning, 10am in the Fellowship Hall. Also join us in our one day Bible School and back to school day that begins with the July 30th Sunday morning worship at 10:30 am and will go on until the afternoon with a hike to Oconee Station Falls.

TAMASSEE DAR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM: Sign up beginning July 3 for the Tamassee DAR Afterschool program that begins August 3. Call 864-944-1390 for more details. Pray for our children and our nation! LM

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dailyrugbytoday · 1 year

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Lock Paul Tito as Blues forwards coach for the 2023 Super Rugby season.

New Post has been published on https://thedailyrugby.com/lock-paul-tito-as-blues-forwards-coach-for-the-2023-super-rugby-season/

The Daily Rugby

https://thedailyrugby.com/lock-paul-tito-as-blues-forwards-coach-for-the-2023-super-rugby-season/

Lock Paul Tito as Blues forwards coach for the 2023 Super Rugby season.

The Blues have bolstered their backroom staff by appointing former Hurricanes and Maori All Blacks lock Paul Tito as their forwards coach for the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season.

The 44-year-old will join the Auckland-based franchise after spending much of the last four years getting coaching experience overseas and joins the Blues as a replacement for Ben Afeaki who has Rugby New York in Major League Rugby in the United States.

Tito has worked as current NPC title and Ranfurly Shield holders Wellington’s forwards coach for the past two seasons and is excited by the challenge of coaching at Super Rugby Pacific level with the Blues.

“I’m looking forward to getting stuck in with the boys this season,” he told the Blues’ official website.

“It’s an exciting squad Leon and his fellow coaches have put together. There’s a lot of consistency in personnel which I think is a really good thing – I’m sure they’ll be hungry after last season and want to go one better.”

Apart from his spell with Wellington, Tito, who was a professional player for 12 years, also had coaching stints with Taranaki and the Western Force while internationally he had a coaching stint with Georgia, who recently beat Wales in an Autumn Nations Series Test in Cardiff.

As a player, he spent seven seasons with the Hurricanes before playing for Cardiff from 2007 to 2012 and captained the Welsh outfit when they won the European Challenge Cup and EDF Energy Cup.

Read more: Blues Super Rugby Pacific Game

Squad des @BluesRugbyTeam pour le #SuperRugby2023 🇳🇿

Retour du patron Pat Tuipulotu après son année au Japon ! Du côté des nouvelles têtes, le 3e ligne Rob Rush, et le NZ7s Caleb Tangitau.#SuperRugbyPacific #BluesAllDay pic.twitter.com/NrNMt2jBla

— Mathias #LeBanni (@mathiascattaneo) December 14, 2022

Tommy Reffell has been named among the best players Rugby in the UK

by debrambuhl on December 29, 2022 at 3:41 pm

Ospreys coach Toby Booth says he agreed with referee Craig Evans’ decisions during the Boxing Day derby against the Scarlets. Tonight’s rugby news as five Wales players named in UK’s top 30 and Ospreys disagree with Scarlets over controversy. Scarlets lock Tomas Lezana was sent off in the fifth minute of the festive derby for

Super Rugby: Richie Mounga to depart Crusaders after 2023

by Brenda Reed on December 29, 2022 at 3:41 pm

Richie Mounga and the Crusaders kick off their 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season against the Chiefs on 24 February at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch. Memberships are available now. Mo’unga debuted for the Crusaders on 27 February 2016, facing the Chiefs at home and scoring 13 points. He made the starting line-up for the rest of

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hydronationchair · 2 years

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River Restoration begins in Leven

On Saturday 3 Sept, along with the Forth-ERA team, our Programme manager Fiona Millar headed to the Levenmouth Fayre, a community day sponsored by sponsored by SGN, Diageo, Network Rail, Fife Council, Creative Carbon Scotland and the Leven Programme. In this blog she reflects on her time at the Fayre and the restoration of River Leven more generally.

It was a fabulous FREE fun day with music from ABBA, an inflatable fun run and lots of activities to keep kids and adults entertained. It was so good to see the community coming out, despite the bad weather, to enjoy the festivities and learn more about their local area.

The Fayre saw stakeholders from across Leven, and Fife more generally come together to share their involvement and opportunities. Stall holders ranged from SGN promoting their Hydrogen power, network rail encouraging safety near rail tracks (did you know it’s a £1,000 fine and criminal record if you trespass on a railway line!) and Leven connectivity project asking for opinions on “Doon the dam”. There are many actors involved in the current developments of Leven and surrounding area and it was a delight to witness conversations between stakeholders and to see commonality between agendas.

Forth-ERA were there to promote the capabilities of their digital observatory, demonstrating the strength of the satellite images over Loch Leven and the indication of chlorophyll levels that help us to understand water quality (I know right, all that information from a machine in the sky!). They had some great conversations with budding scientists, including my youngest who was fascinated by colours in the satellite images (& hopefully the science behind it too).

Being at the Fayre and seeing all the stakeholders, with their differing views, responsibilities and priorities come together so positively and cohesively got me thinking.

Thirty three years I’ve been coming to Leven. My grand father, Obie Maw, ran the local Veg van and shop down by the golf course & I enjoyed many a weekend, week and summer holiday here. That’s continued into my adult life and now my two boys also enjoy coming to “Grandma’s beach house”. Thirty three years I’ve enjoyed playing at the beach, the flume in the swimming pool, whittling away pennies at the amusements and many a trip to Stuart’s the Bakery. Thirty three years and I’ve never known there was a river! (I know, shame on me right - that’s what I thought till I spoke to Brenda who in 70+ plus years has never been over the iron bridge and my mum, until last week, born and breed in Leven, hadn’t even walked along the river!).

The River Leven runs from the beach, through a number of local towns to Loch Leven. It’s pretty run down, has pollution and is largely inaccessible - as our anecdotal evidence above presents. It’s about 6 miles long, and despite all the negatives above is popular for Salmon fishing.

The Leven programme is going to change that. It’s a regeneration programme with a purpose and an ambition. To open up the river, to connect communities and to drive social and economic benefit to an area that so deserves it. The rail way line (see picture below) due to open in 2024 will see a direct service to Edinburgh every 30 mins, bringing opportunities, tourism and a chance to be proud of this seaside town on the East Neuk.

Don’t just listen to me though, Fife Coast & countryside trust explains why it’s a good idea here and find out more about the Leven programme here and keep up to date through their socials.

The Leven programme, along with the Hydro Nation Chair programme has enabled me to reconnect with this sentimental wee town, it’s opened my eyes, just as research should and does and it’s shown me a different way of seeing. I see water differently and not just as easily coming from the tap. I see communities differently and not just as people that live in one town and I see hope. Hope for Leven, it’s town and people and hope for change.

I can’t wait to keep coming back to Leven, and seeing the development and to myself, one day, walk the river alongside the railway line and think “I was part of this”

#place #RiverRestoration #NetworkRail #RiverLeven #LevenProgramme #EastNeuk #Community #engagement

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techinventive · 2 years

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Is Responsive Website Development necessary?

Moment in store is important information that all entrepreneurs of the Internet Age need to be rated of.

One statistic has it that mobile druggies now outpace desktop druggies. This is anticipated to further shoot up with a global upsurge in the consumption of smartphones, predicts the Mobile marketing statistics compendium by Smart perceptivity, an online literacy, publishing and marketing advice platform.

From the perspective of a web inventor, this implies that a website that isn't responsive – in other words promises the same experience to a stoner as the desktop – will soon come completely ineffective, as utmost people would be penetrating the web via their handsets.

Giving a functional description of ‘ responsive web design, ’ Ashok Sharma in 7 Reasons Why Responsive Web Design Matters written for Dzone, a global online community and knowledge publisher for software inventors, says “ Responsive web design is simply a fashion for developing websites in a manner that all of the website content, images, and structure remain the same on any device. ”

What this implies is that a website that runs faultlessly on each and every device available in the request – mobiles, desktops and tablets is a responsive point. Below is the timeline linking this information with some intriguing sound mouthfuls.

Year 2002

Audi’s website was the first that ‘ automatically ’ acclimated itself to different cybersurfer settings, reveals The First Responsive Design Website Audi( circa 2002) by Jim Kalbach, the Head of client Experience at MURAL.

Year 2010

The term, ‘ responsive web design ’ was still formally given by Ethan Marcotte, a freelance web inventor in his book, simply called, Responsive Web Design, informs Brenda Barron in 12 Important Advantages of Responsive Web Design for Envato, an online business for creative means and people.

Year 2015

vaticination expensive mobile operation over the coming times, Google set the ball rolling with a small revision in its hunt machine systems. The hunt mammoth made mobile presence of a website – a crucial influencer into upping its rank. To commemorate that ‘ major incident ’ 9th of March is now flashed back as the ‘ Mobilegeddon ’.

Sonia Gregory for Fresh Sparks, a branding agency simplifies the conception further in Why Responsive Design is Important and Google Approved – “ Responsive web design( RWD) creates a system for a single point to reply to the size of a stoner’s device with one URL and one content source ”

Compactly, RWD is a necessary demand from the specialised perspective, as per the norms set- up by Google. Let’s also look into the colourful factors of a responsive web design from the Google viewpoint. This might move you into hiring a responsive website development company at the foremost.

Let’s launch with some number- scraping on responsive web design development

40% of druggies shift to a competitor's website if they encounter a bad mobile experience. Google’s Mobile Playbook

further than 60 online quests spring out from a mobile device. – The Coming Web

57% of druggies won't plump a business which has an off the mark website design. – socPub

Two times further stoner engagement with brands over a mobile as compared to any other place, store walk- sways, television and all other connectors. – Google 2017

Three in four smartphone holders go for a mobile hunt first to feed their immediate conditions – Google, 2017

Google Also Says!

SEO Clicks!

In case your website isn't responsive, Google will play it down on the results ’ runner. discourse is also true. It'll play it up on hunt results, if it's mobile-friendly. The reason for this is simple – along with content that adjusts itself to the device it's being penetrated from, responsive web design enables better SEO. Meaning solid backlinks and better spring ups render high hunt species, says Cody Arsenault in 10 Essential Benefits of Responsive Web Design to CDN penned for Key CDN, a content delivery network operation company.

Mobile First!

In 2018, Google blazoned that it was migrating websites that used the smartest ways in mobile-first indexing. Before, Google crawled and listed the desktop form of a website, but as they started to realise that this created glitches for mobile druggies, inventors began to experiment with mobile indexing.

Mobile-first indexing means that Google will now largely crawl, indicator and rank the mobile interpretation of the point, in preference over the desktop interpretation, reveals Jessica Jones in The significance of Responsive Web Design for Digital Next, a digital strategy and web design company. That’s where the need will arise for all big and small business establishments to look for a good responsive website development company in India..

Google Speak

Unfortunately, Gregory from Fresh Sparks reports that 44 of Fortune 500 companies aren't mobile-friendly, as of now. Thus, this is the golden occasion for them to expand their service immolations to guests with the help of a responsive website development company. It’s an open assignment to business establishments trying to ameliorate their current conversion rates.

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wordpress development company, python development company, hire remote developers in India

Source- https://techinventive.com/blog/responsive-website-development-necessary

#web design

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qupritsuvwix · 6 years

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Brenda Schad Wonderbra Bliss launch 1998

#wonderbra #brenda schad #playtex #boulder holder

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swanlake1998 · 3 years

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lydia abarca, karen brown, stephanie dabney, brenda garrett-glassman, yvonne hall, joyce handy, virginia johnson, susan lovelle, denise nix, ronda sampson, marcia sells, karlya shelton-benjamin, melva murray-white, and mel tomlinson photographed performing in geoffrey holder’s dougla by marbeth

#ballet #ballerina #ballerino #lydia abarca #karen brown #stephanie dabney #brenda garrett-glassman #yvonne hall #joyce handy #virginia johnson #susan lovelle #denise nix #ronda sampson #marcia sells #karlya shelton-benjamin #melva murray-white #mel tomlinson #marbeth

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spookylostboy · 3 years

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My head is full of Maze Runner characters as Miraculous holders, so I’m gonna force y’all to listen!

Newt as Ladybug, yes using that name. He’s confident, level headed, and probably the most rational of the lot. Also I’m just obsessed with Newt in red (He’d also end up being Multi-Mouse at some points)

Thomas as Cat Noir! I know he’s the main character but there’s no way his personality lines up with Ladybug’s. He’s quick to act, not the best at making plans, and he’s fiercely protective of his friends. Plus Dylan in a cat costume? Yes please!

Brenda as Rena Rouge/Volpina, I’m not sure which name I prefer. She just strikes me as the kind of person who’s playful and cunning. Brenda would look awesome in orange

Minho as Carapace! Protective and not afraid to throw himself into danger, I think he’d be a great turtle hero.

Teresa as Queen Bee! This would be a modern AU so she’s be friends with everyone. I dunno, she just strikes me as a good fit for the bee miraculous

Janson as Hawkmoth because, well, obviously. He’s the main evil dude sooo

Ava as Myura, just to keep the ‘villain’ theme going and they work together in canon so

Sonya as Bunix! I like the idea of Sonya having the bunny miraculous. A time traveler and a secret keeper

Harriet as Ryukko! She’s badass and would use the dragon’s power to her advantage! Also, Harriet in red

Aris as Viperion! I think he’s use the snake’s power properly. He could use some second chances

Frypan as Pegasus! I….don’t really have a good answer for this one and I wanted to find a way to include all the characters, so if anyone has any ideas about this please lmk

Gally as King Monkey! Listen- tbh I hate this miraculous but it was the only one I felt that fit Gally.

And that’s it! There are a few other miraculous that haven’t been shown or are very new and they didn’t fit any if these characters. Let me know what you think!

#I wanna find someone for Pigella but idk who #this stuff has been living in my head rent free and I had to subject yall to it #this was a long post- oops #tmr #miraculous au #the maze runner #and obviously it includes newtmas lol #newtmas

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fishyspots · 4 years

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the same magic touch

happiest belated birthday to @patrickbrewsky! one day i’ll finish the AU you deserve but for today i can give you this, inspired by a conversation we had a while back ❤️️(ps: it’s also on ao3)

“Why are you throwing that sweater out?”

Patrick looks up from the bin, fabric in hand. He feels caught out somehow, but he’s not sure why. “It has a hole in it?”

David stares him down from his spot by the bathroom door. “Why are you ripping holes in your best sweater?”

“I didn’t plan for this to happen,” Patrick protests. “It was totally innocent.”

“Hand it over.” David crosses Patrick’s apartment, narrowly missing clipping the bed with his knee, limbs akimbo the way they always are this early in the morning. Patrick lets David take the sweater from him, perhaps to say a fond farewell, and turns to start David’s coffee. He didn’t know David liked this sweater best; David’s peeled it off of him more than once, but that’s true of most of his shirts at this point.

For some reason, David folds the sweater and puts it in his bag instead of the trash where it belongs. “What are you going to do with that?”

David looks at him like he’s being difficult. “Excuse me?”

“If you’re trying to clone me, that sweater got ripped in the wash so you’ll want something less fresh.” Patrick grabs for the cocoa powder he keeps in his cupboard and that David still won’t look directly at.

“Why would I clone you before they let me edit out your sense of humor?”

“You love my sense of humor.”

David is scrolling through something on his phone now, clearly past the sweater conversation, but he looks up and smiles when Patrick slides his coffee across the counter. “I have very intentionally never said that.”

“Just like how you’re not saying what you’re going to do with my—”

“The tear is on the seam.” David shrugs and takes a sip, wrinkling his nose in the way that means he tastes the cocoa but will not be commenting on it at this time. “It’ll take, like, five minutes to fix.”

“And you know someone who’s willing to do that? Because the only person I can think of is Jocelyn, and I know you two have that begrudging acceptance thing going but I don’t think it extends to me.”

“She likes you too, you know. She told me last week that you were the best Emcee they could have cast.”

“That’s very sweet.” Patrick tilts his head. “But I don’t know there were any other contenders, so it probably sounds better than it is.” But they’re getting off topic now. “Wait, no. Who’s fixing this sweater?”

“I’m fixing the sweater.” David grabs his bag and sets the mug in the sink. “Should we go? We’re going to open late otherwise.”

David’s concern for keeping normal opening hours more than anything else tells Patrick that he’s missing something. Still: “You’re going to fix it.”

“That is correct.” David sighs. “Can we please go? If you wait much longer I’ll lose all this energy and then you’ll have to open by yourself.”

Patrick rolls his lips in and bites down. “How many sweaters have you mended, exactly? Because you talked for an hour once about all the cashmere sweaters you lost to moths.”

“Cashmere is different. Anyway, I’m not, like, totally helpless,” David says. “I went to art school.”

Patrick privately thinks that the sentence might be an oxymoron, but he can acknowledge his own bias here. He took a pottery class in college as his “understanding art” elective; he and his fellow business majors had a lot to say about the cost of equipment and the annoyance of waiting around for the clay to bake. And then after all of that, his glaze was cracked and uneven. “Do they teach stitching there? Like, a whole class?”

“Mm.” David’s mouth is a thin line. “Right after the Etch-A-Sketch one.”

Patrick may have overshot it. “That didn’t—”

“Go to the store. I’ll be there in an hour.”

Patrick sets the spare key on the counter and elects to retreat.

***

“This is earlier than I was expecting to see you.”

David makes a beeline for the macchiato Patrick set in a prominent place on the counter in a spot near the door. He didn’t want David to miss it. “I said an hour.”

The teasing is right there; Patrick has to consciously push down countless other times where David has wildly miscalculated his arrival time. Instead, he takes a breath and prepares for a real apology. They’re a new thing for the two of them—after his parents came to town, Patrick’s been making communication a priority. It’s mostly his idea, but it was spurred on by some...gentle suggestion from Stevie. He doesn’t want to keep falling back into old habits, and he’s not going to put the burden on David to keep him accountable.

But David has not been exceptionally amenable to this new strategy. “Stop,” he says once he’s taken a drink and turned to look at Patrick. “Enough. Thank you for the coffee.”

He drops a kiss on Patrick’s cheek and continues on to the back room. Patrick entertains the idea of following him, but the bell above the door chimes again and he pushes down the conversation they need to have. Not forever, he tells himself sternly. Just until closing. Or lunch, if he can rig them a break.

But it’s Ronnie crossing the threshold, so maybe they do need to finish their relationship discussion. Maybe close the store for the day, or something.

“Ronnie!” Patrick winces at the enthusiasm he can hear in his own voice. David keeps saying that he’s forcing it, which might be valid. “What are you looking for today?”

Ronnie lifts her chin but doesn’t make eye contact. “David here?”

Still trying too hard, then. “He’s in the back. I’ll get him.”

Apparently he heard them, because David’s already peeking out. “Sorry about that, Ronnie. Back for that cheese or is it something else?”

Ronnie lets David curate a cheese plate for her next Women in Business meeting and suggest some wine pairings; Patrick bites back his own opinions to the best of his ability. Or, he does after Ronnie pointedly sets the chardonnay back on the shelf after he says it’s his favorite.

David rings her up and sees her off, and Patrick opens his mouth again to take advantage of a lull. Then the phone rings.

“Can you take that?” David asks. “I want to figure out what we need for that greeting card workshop next month. Jo likes it when we order with at least three weeks’ notice, and they gave us that frame for the poster last time as a thank you so I don’t want to—”

Patrick waves him off before the phone goes to voicemail. “I got it.”

Fortunately for their stocking schedule, it’s Brenda. They’ve been running low on the moisturizer she’s trying out recently, and they need to get more on the shelf as soon as she has it ready. Unfortunately for him, Brenda called seeking opinions about her new combination skin formula and the essential oil blend. David informed Patrick early on that he had combination skin, but Patrick senses that Brenda will not find this information useful. He bides his time and lets Brenda talk until David catches on to his frantic gestures.

They don't teach this in business school. He lets his eyes drift from David's face (a struggle, sometimes) to the bag at his boyfriend's feet. They don't teach a lot of things in business school.

Patrick passes off the phone and greets the next customers, who thankfully do not have any qualms about his personality. Then he checks the stock spreadsheet. They’re getting low on sweaters and socks after the cold snap last week, so he flags the vendors for David to email and sets about filling in the blank spots on the shelves after a busy morning.

The sound of David’s voice soothes Patrick’s nerves even more than the playlist he and David made together in a process that started adversarial (“Smooth jazz? Why not just get a Muzak?” “People shop in those stores too, David.”) and turned playful after they decided on a one-for-one system. Patrick’s alt-folk mixes surprisingly seamlessly with the Whitneys and Mariahs David added. Even the Counting Crows Patrick put on the list just to be contrary fits, in a way.

“Everything okay with Brenda?” Patrick asks after David drops the phone back into his holder. “Are you going to put a new cleanser in my bathroom soon?”

“I don’t see why those two things are necessarily related,” David says, “but yes to both.”

“Good to know.” They might be able to flip the sign for lunch if they’re quick; clouds are gathering in the sky outside in a way that spells a dreary afternoon. “Want me to pick us up something?”

Patrick heads for the door at David’s nod of assent. Even though they haven’t talked about it, he still feels like he’s making up for something. Hopefully that will change. He’s jumping into this new talking strategy with both feet, and he just hopes that David will catch him.

Silly, he thinks as he crosses the street. David has never once let him fall.

Twyla greets him with a sunny smile and asks if they want their usual. For him, a burger is pretty standard, but David keeps vacillating between different soups, sandwiches, and salads. It’s a caesar salad day today; though Patrick would love to read into David’s mood from his choice, he knows better than that by now. David just does what he wants sometimes. As for Patrick, he’s mostly just happy that David is limiting the chance that he won’t like his food. He worked through the international section of the menu last week and spent three afternoons in a row cranky due to hunger and the continual failure of the café to meet his admittedly unrealistic expectations. He does add a cookie, because communication is great and all but it’s always good to have an insurance policy if things go south.

Back at the store, David’s handing over a Rose Apothecary tote to Roland and he’s not even grimacing. Much. There’s definite relief in his eyes when Patrick holds the door for Roland, though. It’s quickly replaced by confusion when Patrick flips the sign.

“I thought we could eat lunch together?” Patrick resists the urge to kick at the ground like a teenager, but it’s there. “We haven’t had much time to just...see each other. Today.”

“I saw plenty of you this morning.” David raises an eyebrow suggestively.

Patrick fights his easy blush; that’s beside the point. “That’s not—”

“You know I never complain about seeing you,” David continues. “But Roland said Jocelyn is going to stop by later, so we’ll have to keep an eye out.”

Patrick thinks Jocelyn can probably wait, but he keeps that to himself. He waits until they’re settled on the couch with David’s left thigh pressing against his right and David can’t talk past his mouthful of lettuce before he broaches the topic. “I did want to talk about this morning.”

David’s eyes widen as he chews, but he does look a little less frantic than he would months or even a year ago if Patrick said something similar.

While David can’t cut him off, Patrick presses his advantage. “I didn’t want to make you feel like you’re helpless. I don’t think you’re helpless.”

David rolls his eyes, but there’s something tight around his mouth that tells Patrick he has to do a little more here. He swallows, so Patrick hurries to finish his thought.

“I think you’re...you do a lot that I don’t do.”

“And you do a lot I don’t do.”

“I don’t think—no, I know, I know I don’t think about that enough.”

Something suspicious dissipates from David’s face. “Is this your whole talking thing again?”

“I don’t have a whole talking thing,” Patrick protests.

“You’ve had a whole talking thing for weeks now. Do you want me to run through all of my skills, or is it sufficient to just say that we’re okay?”

Patrick definitely had prepared to run through all of David’s skills, but he elects to save that for another time. Maybe tonight, when he has more ability to keep David in one place until he’s finished saying what he wants to say. “It’s enough. For now.”

“Threatening me with conversation.” David shakes his head. But he doesn’t take another bite, so he’s at least somewhat worried that Patrick will drop all of his feelings right this moment.

“You can eat, David.”

David lifts his fork cautiously.

So Patrick has no choice, really. “I love you.”

Patrick wants to frame the look David gives him, cheeks slightly bulging and eyes furious and generally perfect.

They unlock the front door in time to catch Jocelyn, and Patrick finds himself still cataloguing David’s competencies for the rest of the day. That night, Patrick sees his sweater, repaired and neatly folded in the way that David says limits wrinkles, hidden in his drawer under a college sweatshirt. It looks as good as new. “Thanks for the sweater.”

“Well, the cloning people were unhelpful. Said I’d have to keep all of you if I went for a new one, and I don’t have the constitution to be mocked twice as often.”

Patrick can’t let it go without saying something, though. “David. Thank you.” That should cover his whole talking thing for now. David still looks at him like he’s a too-large shipment that won’t fit in the planned display. Back to teasing, then. “You know, I had a thought.” Patrick affects his most guileless expression as he slides into bed next to his boyfriend. David’s eyes narrow in suspicion. “Since you’re so good at this, and you went to art school and all, maybe you can help with costumes for Cabaret.”

Patrick enjoys the horrified look that blooms across David’s face probably too much. “I’m suddenly feeling very helpless.”

“Could be worse,” Patrick says. “At least there’s only one of me to deal with.”

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1994 - Beverly Hills, 90210 - 4x30/4x31 - Mr. Walsh Goes to Washington

Episode aired 25 May 1994

In the two-part season finale, Brandon travels to Washington D.C. with the Task Force where two women, both Clare and Lucinda, grapple (literally!) for his attention.

Meanwhile, Brenda is offered by Randolph the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to spend the summer studying theater at the Royal Academy in London.

At the CU Mardi Gras carnival, David seeks to meet and impresses pop star Kenneth "Babyface" Edmunds (self), and his recording manager Ariel (Kari Wuhrer) with his keyboard music.

Steve becomes upset when he runs into his former girlfriend Celeste at the carnival who's now with John Sears.

Elsewhere, Kevin and Suzanne get married in a semi-formal ceremony where he persuades Dylan to cut out any outside investment in their business offer.

Also, Andrea goes into labor and gives birth to a baby girl born prematurely by casarean section.

In the second part of the season finale, Kelly travels to Washington to meet Brandon and they spend a romantic day together to get away from both Clare and Lucinda still hounding him as well as the stress of the travel and they end up in bed.

Before leaving for London, Brenda ends up spending her last night in California in Dylan's bed.

Donna catches David in a compromising position with Ariel after catching them having sex in a limo. Donna breaks up with David and throws him out of the beachfront apartment.

Steve continues to clash with Sears over Celeste's affections.

Meanwhile, Andrea and Jesse experience the joys and fears of parenthood for their premature daughter.

Jim becomes angry at Dylan for making such a rash decision to finance Kevin's chemical company all by himself which he fires Dylan as his financial holder. The next day, Dylan goes to a bank and gives Kevin full power-of-attorney control over his money. But it is revealed in a climatic twist to the viewers that both of Kelly's and Jim's original suspicions about Kevin and Suzanne were entirely correct; both Suzanne and Kevin really are career criminals and con artists who have been plotting this whole time to steal all of Dylan's inheritance money and flee to Brazil with it. Erica figures out what is going on and at LAX, she attempts to leave a note for Dylan to find, but the note gets lost when Erica drops it in the ladies room.

NOTE: This is the last appearance of Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh.

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