Is it going to be kind?

Well, let's see if Blogger is going to be nice to me today?

Kathy and I went out to dinner last night, actually I planned to make my famous smoked sausage and green beans and after I told her she said she had been thinking about eating out, hmmm... I wonder if there is a connection? Anyway, we went to the new place in the Penn Square parking lot, what a great place to have a restaurant, in one of the most crowded and hardest to get to parking lots in town, The Elephant Bar. It has a bar, but isn't a bar. Problem with truth in advertising if you ask me. And since my entire life is Blogger fodder, I was already composing my headline as we were leaving the place. I turned to Kathy and asked her, "What is the problem if the best thing you can say about a restaurant is that, 'it's decor is fun and campy'?" The food was ok, nothing particularly wonderful. Kathy had a chicken Caesar salad and I had a hamburger and fries, I know, not our usual arrangement, but she wanted to eat light and I was too tired and bored to figure out anything more complicated. The main problem we had with the place is that it is LOUD. They were putting together a 25 top next to us, well actually it was an 18 top and then some more people came in and stood there for about 15 minutes (not an exaggeration) until they found some more chairs and then some more people came in so they had to get more chairs and tables. All this about three feet from us. Real conducive to relaxed dining. To be truthful though, even if they had not been running around right next to us, we still couldn't have carried on a normal conversation due to the noise level of the whole place. And then we shared a dessert, walnut brownie with ice cream and chocolate sauce and whipped cream and slivered almonds. It was ok, but Kathy and I could have made it better at home (but then we would have to clean up) and besides we put raisins in our brownies (trust me, it tastes better than it sounds). Service was not really even so-so. We ran out of water twice, not earthshattering, but irritating. And just to reiterate, parking was atrotious! I hate the Penn Square lot at the best of times (although I can't really think of any best of times, Maybe the time our daughter Alison had a dead battery in her car and I had to go out there at 10:30 to give her a jump start, at least there were places to park then). Well, needless to say (then why are you saying all this?) we probably won't go back there again. All in all, I preferred Cheeseburger In Paradise even if they didn't play much Buffett and you need to take an extra couple to split the chocolate nachos. Or maybe if you didn't eat any dinner you could eat the whole chocolate nacho yourself.... Can we spell gluttony?

Well, maybe I can put some pics on today: Well, apparently not. I don't mind that it won't let me put pics on as much as that it tells me they're added and then there isn't anything there. Don't you just hate it when your computer lies to you? They think they're so smart. Sometimes when I have insomnia I'll come down and I can hear my computer and MP3 player whispering to each other. I just know they are plotting something. I'm pretty sure that if they can ever get the toaster to agree to their plans I'm sunk.

Well, I tried to fool blogger by using microsoft publisher to put the pics on and publish the blog. Ha ha, I'm the one that was fooled. After about 20 minutes trying to get everything put together just so, it still wouldn't let me put it on Blogger. This is the commentary I had on publisher. At least you can figure out what I have in the garden, and maybe soon I can put pics up.:

Ok, so apparently you have to do all these convoluted things to get things published to Blogger. I don’t know if this is going to work. Luckily Kathy got Microsoft Office through work so now I am trying to do this in Publisher Maybe it’ll work and maybe not. So the top left picture is some sweet potato vine that we finally got. Notice how well behaved the Marguarite is? I’ll take another picture in a few weeks. I’ll bet it won’t be half that nice then.

Top right is a close up of a butterfly on the chaste tree.

The center pics are of some Persian shield and begonias that we planted in the concrete planter. I love Persian shield. It is such a cool looking plant.

The bottom picture is of one of Kathy’s sunflowers. She wanted me to pull them all up because she planted the giants about three years ago and I always let them seed out for the birds. Well, the dumb birds don’t eat enough because we always have a great big crop of small flowered sunflowers. I still think they are pretty and they don’t droop over from the weight of the blossom either.

Take care of yourselves today. Wayne