Subj : Towing the Line was: Chick'n
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Jul 07 2024 15:47:09

Hi Dave,

 DD> Needs, wants and desires change as we move through life.

 RH> Yes, and as long as we have the camper, we're going to stay with a
 RH> truck. Don't know what we'll eventually wind up with but it won't be
 RH> one of these tiny little things that have you sitting 6" above the
 RH> road with your knees up to your chin.

 DD> I borrowd a friend's Smart (for Two) car once to make a grocery run
 DD> for stuff that had run ot during a gathering. His was on the outise
 DD> layer
 DD> of the parked cars/trucks and mine was in the middle. The little churn
 DD> was tiny on the outside but amazingly roomy on the inside. Then I
 DD> recalled Dave Sacerdote telling of his daughter and her girlfriend
 DD> taking a Smart car from En field, CT to Florida for spring break.

IIRC, they brought it to the 2007 picnic at the Shipp's. That's the
first one we were able to attend and got to put a lot of faces with
names. Michael made some melt in your mouth crab cakes for that one; I
know I brought an assortment of home made jams and did a peach cobbler
but don't remember any other dishes.


 DD> These days I choose my rides for ease of entry and exit. No more
 DD> sports cars or jacked-up pick-ups. And even the mid-sized pick-ups
 DD> like Ranger and Colorado are too high for me to get in easily. Your
 DD> Frontier was my idea of the ideal size.

The F-150 has a handy handle on the door frame; I always take a step
onto the running board, grab the handle and swing myself in. Also make
sure the door is only about halfway open, makes it easier to grab to
close.

 DD>      8<----- NICK ----->8

 DD> We just got an African place - "Rraveller's Kitchen" that replace La
 DD> Bamba "Burritos as Big as Your Head". I'll have to give them a try and
 DD> see what they mean by "African" That's a biiiiig continent.  Bv)=

 DD> I note from their on-line Door Dash menu that they also offer Afro-Mex
 DD> items and vegetarian stuff.

 RH> You will have to try them and give us a report. A new local chain
 RH> opened a branch in WF recently so we got some take out for lunch the
 RH> other day. Alpaca is Peruvian based, charcoal grilled chicken. We'd had
 RH> some at one of their other locations so knew what we were getting. We
 RH> split half a chicken, an order of maduroes (fried plantains) and a
 RH> tossed salad. I've a feeling we'll be going back there on a sorta
 RH> regular basis.

 DD> It will be interesting. At that very address I used to work on a
 DD> weekly all sports newpaper (Sports Spotlight) and learned the printing
 DD> trade.
 DD> I had just returned home from 5 years in California. Lived in a tiny 2
 DD> bedroom shack behind the shop. 2 (tiny) bedrooms, kitchen (even
 DD> smaller than my current), common area. And the WC was, literally, in a
 DD> closet.

 DD> After we moved the print shop and I shifted house to something more
 DD> liveable the building was razed and a Lee's Famous chicken joint was
 DD> built there. When Lee's shrank back to southern Indiana/northern
 DD> Kentuck the build was vacant for a long time until La Bamba happened
 DD> along.

Some spots never do seem to hold a business long. There's one location
here in WF that has probably had at least 5 different restaurants,
besides long times of sitting empty, in the 15 years we've been here.
Nothing seems to last more than 6 months in that location.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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