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Saturday morning we ventured off for breakfast at the Goody Goody Omlet House. I say ventured as we were a little worried about what we might find when we got there and I hadn't heard the word 'goody' since reading The Crucible in high school. The first thing we noticed was that they had a sign on the door stating that they don't take debit or credit cards (not a good thing for us as we never have greenbacks so this led to a quick detour to a nearby drive-through ATM) GGOH is a small orange roofed building with 5 booths and 10 bar seats and for takeout orders they even had an old fashioned telephone with a genuine ring. We got a booth (and high chair) and whilst the menu had lots of choices we decided that because it was an omlet house we better order omlets (or at least have eggs and not pancakes). Lucy, being a true Shire hobbit, settled in for second breakfast quickly eating her toast and grits and asking for more in a loud grunting way. She looked very cute so the waitress forgave her throwing things on the floor and even lent her a book to read. The omlets/scrambled eggs/bacon/grits/biscuits were excellent and the service fast. Note that when the menu says 'sausages' they mean little round patties of sausage meat not the long 'hotdog' shaped version we are used to. We had a great meal here and we are likely to return. Interestingly it is the first place where there have been both black and white people. Usually it is just one or the other but it was great to find a true mingling of people here.
Apart from church and our monthly church luncheon (lots of fried chicken and hush puppies) the rest of the weekend was spent working in the garage. Andrew built a workbench and put up lots of shelves. Then we moved all the stuff out of the guest room into the garage. So the guest room is almost empty! Which is a good thing... now we can get it ready for our first guest.
Just for the record, it is SOOOOO HOT. It is so hot that it is unpleasant to go outside as it is regularly getting to 35 degrees+. The grass needs mowing every week and the plants are growing like crazy. Its the combination of thunderstorms providing lots of water and the heat. Even Andrew's fingernails are growing faster than ever. We are living in a greenhouse!
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i was going to say, remind me to visit in winter, but my next trip to the u.s. should be in august next year for the portland zine symposium in portland, or.
i love reading about what y'all are up to. i was talking to people at work about "too late, she cried, waving her wooden leg in the air" and i thought a lot about you all today. God bless you and keep you and make his face to shine upon you (which doesn't seem to be much of a metereological stretch, i guess) and be gracious to you. shalom!
what's a hush puppy? and does the telephone do anything? at A&W in ithaca they had phones in every booth so you could phone your order to the kitchen. sadly the waitress brought the food on foot, not roller skates.
afeel free to head north any time you need to cool down! it's dry as anything, and we're lucky to hit the mid 20s during the day.
i think i'll save the hush puppy explanation for a full blog entry suffice to say that it's a southern thing. and i cleared up the phone sentence as there was only one phone in the place and it wasn't in the booth. oops.
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