1. Ed and I piled into the Camry at 6 this morning and blasted off. Our destination was the Wildhorse Resort and Casino outside Pendleton, OR.
I like to read people's experiences at different restaurants in North Idaho and the Spokane area. Over the last month or so, people post positive comments about the hearty breakfasts served at Dave's Bar and Grill near the corner of Pines Road and East Sprague.
Ed and I stopped in this morning and both of us enjoyed our food -- in fact, we were enthusiastic about it. A bunch of men, some alone, some in groups, were also at Dave's at 7 a.m. and all of them were right around my age and Ed's.
We liked that and figured these guys were regulars and Dave's was where they often (or always) got their day started.
Ed was very enthusiastic about his sausage links which were large and had charred grill marks on them, as if they'd been cooked on a BBQ grill.
I ordered a sausage patty and when our superb server asked me if I wanted gravy on my fried potatoes, I said I did and the potatoes and gravy made me very happy,
2. We arrived in Pendleton, got settled in, and one by one the other guys arrived throughout the afternoon. Don Windisch and I got settled in our room. Don, Ed, Jake, Mike S., and met in the sports bar. I enjoyed a Bud Zero. The other guys drank beers and enjoyed bar food.
I didn't eat because at 5 o'clock, I met Colette at the Thai Crystal restaurant downtown and we picked up conversation where we left off in April, with special emphasis on stories about Colette's daughter and on a podcast Colette listens to often entitled, Between the Covers, hosted by David Naimon who interviews, in depth, a different author each episode. The interviews are in depth. The episodes can last a couple of hours. They've been both stimulating and a comfort for Colette and I plan to follow her advice and tune in.
3. Almost every single day, I have resisted eating the ice cream I have been craving almost every single day! Here at Pendleton, I've decided the resisting is OFF. So I went to the deli and ordered a dish of Cookies and Cream ice cream and returned refreshed to our room and got to have two great conversations.
First, Terry came by, at his dinner, and caught me up on a variety of things in his life ranging from his and Nancy's health to his ongoing involvement in Trout Unlimited.
Don arrived back to our room and we had a great talk. Don and I are both 71 years old and figure we've known each other for about sixty-six or sixty-seven years and we marveled at how lucky we are to have kept our friendship going all these years and to have long lasting friendships with the guys we are with this week and with other men and women we grew up with in and around Kellogg.
We agreed that it's God's blessing that we have this good fortune in our lives.
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