Sunday, June 16, 2013

Making lemons into lemonade?




 

Aside from actually doing it,(get your minds out of the gutter) since this season it does look as if we will have a bumper crop of our Ponderosa lemons that is… but I digress…
Perhaps, I should have entitled tonight’s blog offering, “The Best Laid Plans of Men… and in my case a WOMAN”

The concept of going to our ‘usual’ ‘if all else fails’ place, The Cultural Center for lunch was an annoying flop today, of all days…Father’s Day.
You see, by the time we arrived at 12:45 P.M. the ad said they were serving from 11-2, they were out of choices of chicken parts; all that was left was wings… now ordinarily that would be wonderful, but not at that price and they didn’t really have enough for an adult serving!
The ribs smelled amazing but when lifted up for the person in front of us Hubby thought they did not look as tender as he would like to chomp on with that amazing fairly new smile of his. And to top things off the couple behind us seemed as if they were in a hurry, they offered to help move us along and kept bumping into us! They were about ten or twenty years older than us and didn’t look like they had other stops on their today’s itinerary although they were dressed as if they had just came from church; a logical conclusion, it is Sunday, after all.  And so we decided while still in line to leave and go to the Olympia Restaurant where they never have disappointed us. I suppose I might have made my suggestion as loud as a stage whisper and for that I am truly, truly sorry, but we did move quite fast after that although the man in front of us appeared to leave his walker behind him for us to bump into, which to someone like me who has used one proficiently, I might add, that it does not work like that, ha! Methinks he might have been another stealer of handicap parking spaces that is the man who was in front of us…but who knows… a mean assumption from me!
And we all remember what assuming means, correct? Making an ass of you and me, Geez, I am getting over that cringe factor now that I am finally getting older, Halleluiah? Who would have thunk it and that according to spell check I spelled ‘Halleluiah’ right the first time!? Another HALLELUIAH is in order and there it is. It is an Old Testament word and so feel very comfortable saying it…HA!

Moving on, or back on topic…

And so we arrived at Olympia Restaurant, a Greek restaurant, and Hubby orders an open faced turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes, extra gravy and a small house salad with Ranch dressing, coffee without cream, and I order their Spanakopita, spinach pie with feta and a nice Greek salad, iced tea unsweetened with extra lemons.

All was delish, and although it was a bit more, price wise, we did enjoy it; and after we took a ride to see if anything was going on… but the outdoor thermometer built into the car stated it was 95 degrees Fahrenheit outside and so we went home to the comfort of our air-conditioning and relaxed. TA DA!

The day was not so terrible when all was said and done and Hubby seemed quite content with the outcome and isn’t that really all that any of us want?

On that note of much noteworthiness, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly ask all of you to count those blessings and share all the overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all who celebrate it; BIG SMILE HERE!

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