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Making New Friends . . .
We all headed out about 11:30 this morning to have lunch with C. A. Newsome, an author-friend of Nick’s who also happens to be one of Jan’s favorite mystery writers.
After a stop at Chase Bank, we met Carol Ann and her friend Marianne Shelton, at Ruth’s Parkside Café, an upscale restaurant located in the old American Can Company building.
Originally built in 1921, it was abandoned in 1978, and stayed vacant until bought up in 2005 to be developed into loft apartments. It reopened in 2011, with apartments ranging in size from a 615 sq.ft. 1 bedroom to a 1513 sq.ft. 3 bedroom, and from $610 to $1480. And it must be very popular, because at this time, no units are available tor rent.
The food was good, with Jan having this Orange Szechwan Stir Fry,
while I had the Half BLT with a bowl of their delicious Savory White Bean Soup. Very good. Finishing up, Jan and I shared a piece of really good Chocolate Gooey Cake.
Jan had a great time getting to know Carol Ann, who as I said, is one of Jan’s favorite authors.
Carol Anne, in the center, above, with Marianne to the left, has written three books in her Dog Park Mystery series, with a fourth on the way. Jan has all three in Kindle format, and has read them several times. She really enjoys Carol Ann’s well-written characters, especially the female serial killer in the first two books.
And right now, A Shot in the Bark, Book 1 in the series, is FREE, and the other 2 are only $3.99. You can get all 3 below.
And they’re also available in paperback. Check’em out.
Finally saying our goodbyes to Carol Ann and Marianne after a great lunch and get-together, we drove around for a while checking out the many neat old buildings in the area, before heading a little further north to make a stop at Half-Price Books, pretty much our favorite used book store.
After wandering through their stacks for almost an hour, we headed next door to the Kroger’s for a few things before starting back to the park. By the time we were passing though Harrison, OH, right on the Ohio/Indiana border, we decided it was a good time for a Dairy Queen visit, to get our ice cream fix.
After our DQ stop, we took a back road out though this really beautiful countryside before our return to the park.
Tomorrow looks to be a rainy stay-at-rig day.
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Thought for the Day:
A true Redneck thinks that the National Anthem is always followed by “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines”.
Mister Wants A Hammock . . .
Saw this video online and now Mister wants one of his own.
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A few days ago I posted this amazing video of a quadcopter drone flying around and through a fireworks show. Here it is again if you missed it.
It was done in West Palm Beach, FL, but as I thought it wasn’t this past 4th of July, but back in May during West Palm Beach’s Sunfest..
And now the pilot is being investigating by the FAA because in flying through the fireworks, he may have flown too close to the airport. Of course the question is, how many planes would be flying through the fireworks, anyway, since the airspace had already been cleared for the show.
And it sounds like the guy lives in South Africa, anyway.
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A little before 5 we headed out with Nick and Terry to have dinner at the Sherman House Restaurant in Batesville. We had hoped to eat here on Monday when we got to the park, but they’re closed on Mondays, so we went Mexican.
The Sherman House has been around since 1852 and has a great menu, including a lot of German specialties, as well as a really good salad bar. So we were really looking forward to it tonight.
But when we got to the restaurant, we found a large chalkboard out front that said, “Sorry for the Inconvenience. We closed at 4pm today.”
Bummer!
So we decided to try the nearby Chinese Buffet that had pretty good reviews.
THEY WERE WRONG! And I’m not going to say anymore about it.
We even tried to save the evening with a stop at Dairy Queen on the way home, and they got a coup;le of our orders wrong.
Maybe we should have just stayed home.
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Got this picture today of Landon and his daddy, Lowell. Really looking forward to seeing them in August.
Tomorrow we’re going into Cincinnati to see some sights.
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Thought for the Day:
"America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." – Clair Wolf’
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