Up again at Larry and Candice’s for coffee at Starbucks. Went in and had another great gathering of folks.
Joel S. was there and after all the regulars left, he joined Colette and I at the Pattie’s Egg Nest place a few doors down for breakfast. Always good to talk to Joel. I meet few people with such an intense desire to be a good person. And he walks his talk as well.
After breakfast, Colette and I returned to Starbucks to sit and use their free Internet and to catch up on our E-Mail and Blogs.
We then took off to the other side of Monroe to drop in on my friend, Van. It was a come without calling visit and we were lucky that he was home. Even luckier, he was free for lunch so we made a plan to meet him at Jeno’s on Main Street and then took off so he could catch a shower before coming.
We returned to Main Street early and while we were waiting for Van, Colette and I walked up and down looking at the store fronts. I told her about Dan buying his green guitar at Mills music and about my turning in many of the books in my person library at Main Street Books before I left for NZ in November of 2009. There were many more stories, layered quite deep, that I could have told about events and memories all over town but they are old stories and probably not that interesting unless you’d been there. So I told a few and remembered many more which has been the inevitable pattern as we’ve toured around this town that was a central part of my life for 20 years.
Van showed up and we all had a nice lunch at Jeno’s. He’s another Monroe favorite of mine. I heard about the economics of how his nursery’s going and about Social Security and Medicare which are both subjects of interest to me.
After we finished lunch with Van, I got a call back from Kim W. whom I’d called earlier to try to setup a meeting.
She was home and she was free so Colette and I took off for the Echo Lake area where I’d lived for the first 10 years I’d lived in this area. She lives there in a big log home that she and her husband (now passed on) had build many years ago. She’s a beautiful lady and a friend of nearly 20 years. I introduced her to Colette and we all sat in her kitchen, drank tea and talked and then we looked at her art work. She’s quite talented and I always enjoy seeing what new phase she’s gotten into.
When we left Kim’s, we went shopping. First we picked up a prescription I’d turned in and then we went to Fred Meyer’s and bought a small tea pot for Candice as a thank you gift for having us at their place. We returned then to Larry and Candice’s and Larry was there ands he said that Candice was going to meet us at The Tijuana restaurant where we were going to buy them dinner (Larry’d cooked us meals the last two nights).
Tijuana was great. I got to see Martha and Felipe, the owners whom I haven’t seen in two years and Larry, Candice, Colette and I had a good time at dinner. I got my old favorite, Campechana. Yum. This is the only Mexican restaurant that makes it that I know of.
Finally, after a long day of socializing and catching up with good friends, it was home to Larry and Candice’s again and off to bed.
Great day.
dennis