Daily Archives: March 17, 2011
Happy St. Paddy’s Day . . .
Once again this morning started out with coffee about 9:30 and some website work for clients. Then about 10:30 Jan and Terry set up an outing for us for lunch, shopping, and errands.
So around noon, Nick, Terry, Jan, and I headed over to the Miracle Mile area of Tucson. Our first stop was to drop off some mail at the Post Office and then on to Luke’s Italian Beef, a place Nick has been eating at for years. A Chicago-style sandwich shop, they serve a variety of beef sandwiches, cheesesteaks, hot dogs, and Polish sausage. Nick, Terry, and Jan had an Italian Beef sandwich with Provolone cheese, while I had a Polish Sausage Dog, Chicago Style. We all had orders of their great fries. They’re really crispy because they’re fried twice.
After a delicious lunch, we headed west out of town toward the Tucson Mountain Park and Gate’s Pass scenic areas.
We had been thru some of this area before a while back when our friends Al and Adrienne took us out to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum that is located here. But this time we made a giant loop coming back into Tucson by a different, very scenic route.
Our first stop back in town was Wal-Mart for some needed supplies, before heading over Nick’s cousin Bev’s place for a visit.
Then it was on to Trader Joe’s, a western-based U.S. chain, similar to Whole Foods, selling mostly natural and organic foods, it’s a fun place to find products you don’t see in many other stores.
We finally got back home about 6pm, and, after putting away our groceries and checking our emails, we all headed out about 7 to take Nick to DQ.
It was his reward for his rapid recovery from his recent hallucinogenic episode, where he fantasied that I had somehow damaged my coach. I think he’s now seen the error of his ways, and knows that with another relapse it’ll be no more DQ for him.
Tomorrow we all plan on revisiting the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch up I-10 in the Picacho Peak area between here and Phoenix.
More tomorrow . . .
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Thought for the Day:
… that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back — you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going.”
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