Let us help you create your own story for celebrating Memorial Day.

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Some people grill meat on Memorial Day. We buried ours.

I don’t know what kind of celebrating you did for Memorial Day, but I’m going to let you re-create the fun here at our house by using the list of words below.

• unplugged

• meat

• freezer

• stink

• maggots

• bleach

• shop broom

• flies

• parents

• Lysol

• fresh air

• hot water

• CSI jokes

• squeegee

• muck

• rotten

• gag reflex

So there you go: create your own story for the Memorial Day holiday by using the words above, which come directly from the kind of hap-hap-happy and typical Neidlinger holiday.

Previous holiday highlights from the Neidlinger family, ranging from Easter to Thanksgiving to Christmas over the years, have involved the following words and phrases:

• runaway horse

• fire

• aerial search for horse

• food poisoning

• skunk

• car/semi-truck accident

• family brawl

• screaming

• shooting (only target practice, mind you)

It’s not really the holidays until you’ve spent them with us. Cheers!