July arrives

 So Phil is off in Ireland on a music tour and apparently having a great time. I am catching up on a list of things that i have procrastinated about for - well- plenty of time... next week is busy with my last medical stuff for hte summer and a visit for friend Carolyn as well as a dinner with Todd & Evie and Frank. Meanwhile I have been getting through some of the stuff in the frig (last cleaned out when???LOL) 

I was eating breakfast today and a memory of the best breakfast I ever had on a road trip popped into my head. Phil is in Ireland and so that might have jogged my memory because I was going to text him to look out for this option.  We had no idea what a "boxty" was when TB and I entered the Lawrence Park Dinor but the staff explained it was an Irish recipe for an omelet wrapped in a hash brown potatoes pancake. Well let me tell you we both hopped on that suggestion and ordered the boxty special of the day. It was fabulous. And now a great memory of the best road trip breakfast.

You just know one of those pie pieces is gonna make it into TB's morning order...LOL - there he sits below (to the bottom left in the photo) waiting for the BOXTY reveal!

 

a truly worthy stop on the road in Eire PA. and later in the morning we had to stop for a snack because timing was off for a full meal when we pulled into the White Turkey Drive-in. (est 1952 in Conneaut Ohio)  We had root beer floats and onion rings to get a feel for the place- also worthy. Located past the Ohio border as we continued around the Lake Erie shoreline. 

So it's July the Fourth and I am not feeling the America I once knew - but I know there are traces out there because we find them every year on the DART (Disappearing America Road Trips). 

more stateside

 At the theater Saturday to see one of the final performances of Tale of Two Cities presented by Shattered Globe Theater company at the Theater WIT space. The staging was hokey and only a quarter of the actors had any emotional impact on me as an audience member but the adaptation was well done. I told Phil that the play would have read very well. It was slanted for today's fight for democracy and had a number of impassioned speeches.  Overall I would give it a B.

After I returned from the theater we went to Falcon's for a quick bite of sandwiches/wraps and soup and chili. 

Then Sunday I returned to the theater to see the brilliant ART.  So sorry to say that this was the final day of this fabulously funny emotional rollercoaster of a play! Otherwise I'd be telling everyone to get your tickets immediately. I was not alone in my raucous laughter and sometimes groans, because every audience member was "involved" with the quick pace and snappy dialogue. Sometimes vulnerable but mostly cutting to the quick with each other, three friends have a complete and utter meltdown ostensibly about a piece of art that one of them has spent 200 grand purchasing. Of course, the work of art (which is argued about and over) is simply the trigger point for issues in the platonic relationships of the three men. The three actors playing the characters of Marc, Ivan, and Serge were all outstanding in their performances. This is well worth seeing if you ever see a restaging of the play. #highlyrecomemded

After that we went to Brownstone for burgers and when we got home I worked on trip planning with TB... centerpiece of this year's trip  will be Crater Lake the deepest lake in the United states at 1949 feet deep and the water is replaced every 150 years by rainfall and snow melt as it has no rivers flwong into or out of the lake in the caldera. 

above photo and diagram from wikipedia.  This week we are busy with a visit from Steve & Suzanne and get togethers with friends Lee & Nick and another dinner with Frank (Aroy Thai) so stay tuned...