Shortly after Christmas, during the Big Discount Days, Nancy and 
Ed went to HomeRepairCo to redeem a gift certificate Ed's father gave 
them for Christmas. They shopped from one end of the enormous 
warehouse-type store to the other. For the kids, Amie and Briana, the 
decided upon an inexpensive orrery, in kit form.  After much 
discussion and compromise, they finally came upon a tent-like car 
port in kit form, discounted to half-price, and something they both 
wanted. The gift certificate was almost exactly the amount of the car 
port and orerry, so that was the deciding factor.
    They took the ticket to the front cashier and requested that the 
car port be brought outside, to the front of the store. To their 
amazement it arrived on a fork-lift and required 3 HomeRepairCo 
employees to help Ed fit it into the back of their SUV after removing 
the front passenger seat. Nancy drove with Ed riding, cramped and 
crammed, in the back with the orrery kit on his lap.

*orrery (OR-uh-ree) noun; A mechanical model of the solar system that 
represents the relative positions and motions of the planets around 
the sun. [After Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1676-1731), who 
was given one of those models by John Rowley, a London 
instrument-maker. They were invented by George Graham c. 1700.]
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