Friday, August 9, 2013

Happy and sad...



Our day’s journeys took us to only a few places.

The first stop was to complete my trice weekly exercise programming.

Than onward and upward to acquire our monthly allotment of fuel for our hungry auto; although, it may have been bi-monthly this month.
All I know is that going brought up our rewards for our credit card enough to get our additional 10% from our 2% grocery and 3% gasoline purchases for the month to over the $25 minimal of increments to have it placed into our account!

From there we stopped at a new for us restaurant Bocca Lupo, translated it is the Wolf’s Mouth, a coal fired pizza pizzeria; thus the appearance of the wolf's mouth.
We had wanted to try it over the last few years, but somehow had forgotten to stop, even though it is adjacent to our Lowe’s home store in Port Charlotte Florida, which we have been known to frequent fairly regularly, but not recently.

Hubby tried their calzone and I decided on the small Greek salad and a short order of wings, citrus chipotle barbecue. Lately we have been ordering iced water with lemons when we go out and saving a small bundle in the process; never mind the healthier concept of no caffeine for either of us.
We have more than enough at home.

The calzone, $7, was large enough to take up two zip codes, it hung over the plate, a dinner one, on both sides, and Hubby ordered the personal sized one, the small Greek salad that I had was $5, and it looked as if it had been super sized and was brought out with two bowls for sharing purposes, Hubby wasn’t interested at first, but I cajoled him into it and even than much of it came home!
Those wings for the small portion were ten strong at $8 for the bunch, and somehow between the two of us we only were able to consume three and yes, you got it; the rest came home for a repeat performance!
Oh I almost forgot and yes, a side order of blue cheese dressing for the wings, two cups full, for a mere 75 cents!

And on the full moon pizzas are sold for half price and so we marked our calendar, since the table behind us had an example of aromatic marvel of the big city thin crust kind that we oh so have missed for years and years and yearned for and we vowed to come back!

The last stop was home for me, but Hubby had less than an hour to get ready to go out again. This time to the viewing of Sergeant Mike Wilson, he was murdered in the line of duty at the scene of a domestic dispute. Hubby and he had been co-workers while in the district two office of the sheriff's office, all those years ago. I did not go due to the fact I only met him once, and I am sometimes more trouble than I am worth, maneuvering me and needing a handicap spot for the car, with that crowd would have been impossible. And it was more important for Hubby to go for his own personal solace and to be with people who he knew that they could all commiserate with fond memories of this fine young man who was a husband and father of three and sadly who had been cut down in his prime, at just forty-two years old.

Before Hubby left we noticed that number one son had called on our caller I.D. and so I called him back when Hubby left and we talked until Hubby came back from the very sad occasion.

That’s it for tonight, some days are just that happy and sad…

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

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

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