In the afternoon we drive down to Orland Park to visit Jan’s cousin Tom and his wife Patte, we tour their antique filled home, meet their two dogs, and they take us for a lovely dinner at a nearby restaurant/winery, Cooper’s Hawk.
Jan, Tom and Patte.
The wine casks are off at the left, and those are aerators on the right. For a couple of their wines on any given day, they’ll serve you straight out of one of the casks that they’ve tapped.
This get-together provides a perfect opportunity to share Rozzie stories. Tom’s dad Russ was the oldest of ten children, five boys and five girls, Jan’s dad Rozzie was the second of the brood. Rozzie often told us that he used to get in trouble because of stuff that Russ did – no one would believe that Russ would do such things, “It must have been Roz”, so he was the one who got punished. But Tom says, “Funny thing, my dad always told me he used to get into trouble because of things that Rozzie did.” The Ombudsman’s touchstone: “Two people, three versions of events.”
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