It was a perfect, warm, lazy afternoon (for me - Rog was working hard in his shop) and I had a hankering for ice cream. Rog was going into Florence to the hardware store so I tagged along because there is a small restaurant next door that serves real ice cream. CLOSED. Bummer. Seems their cook has left, according to the sign. Apparently they can't function without him, so the place closed until they find someone else. It occurred to Roger that Mickey D's has ice cream - well, sort of ice cream - chemicals designed to taste like ice cream. We went anyway and with hot fudge, nuts, and strawberries on it, we pretended. It hit the spot, though. We realized that it has been a VERY long time since we had been inside one of their establishments and things have changed! You can place your order and pay at a kiosk and they bring your food to the table. Very weird.
After a great deal of deliberation we have decided to hire the landscaping people to come back and install an irrigation/drip system so that we don't lose our plants this summer. Several of the neighbors are talking about getting together and hiring another landscaping crew to come and water for them. We thought about it, but that particular crew doesn't have a reputation for reliability. The woman who watered our tree last year is a year-round resident but she doesn't water anything but trees because that's all the time she has for. We had to put in a formal request, with a drawing, to the architectural committee and should have it back, approved, by week end. We are now waiting to hear from the owner of the landscape company to give us an install date. He gave us a rough estimate over the phone this morning and we will trust him on that. He did the patio, landscaping, and rocks and we trust him to do a good job. In fact, when Rog handed in our request our section rep said that he was glad to see we were using this particular company.
It must be Spring Break somewhere as we are seeing young people on the streets and the walking paths. Grandparents, parents and grandkids together or sometimes just the "grands."
We are starting to crave food we can't get here. We want Thai from Sawsadee, a veggie burger and fries from Great Basin Brewery, and Chinese from Chin Chin. We haven't found a Thai place anywhere near. There is one decent Chinese place next to the Safeway 13 miles away. As for a veggie burger - forget it. We can't even get Mexican locally that is remotely vegetarian. We tried one place and it had vegetarian tacos on the menu. When it came it was a corn tortilla with shredded lettuce, tomato and guacamole. The beans had lard and who knows what the rice was cooked in. I imagine if we went into the big cities - Phoenix and suburbs - we could find something but it is at least an hour's drive. A bit much for lunch or dinner unless we have other business to take us there. Oh, well. Our eating out food bill is small when we are here - that should count for something, I guess.
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