It was supposed to rain today.  Instead, it came down the other white stuff…hail.  Crossed our fingers and toes that it stopped before any damage was done to the new solar panels on the roof.  Perhaps a plan preventing other damaging things that fall from the sky should be put in place now.  I’m guessing Alaskan weather might not be as kind.

Took a trip down memory lane, Chico addition.  John and my first place together was a garage in back of John’s friend’s rental property.  Can’t really see the apartment anymore with all the plants.  One room, just a bit smaller than the rolling box where we now live…so I guess that means our living accommodations have come full circle.

John and I met at Some Other Place (SOP), a bar owned by a friend of John’s, 41 years ago.

My apartment was three streets down from SOP and just a few steps from my favorite (actually just the closest) liquor store.

I stopped at our local donut shop on the way home from SOP almost nightly and sometimes caught a ride on the back platforms of the slow moving trains that passed down the middle of town just a few feet from my apartment.

John and I met, dated three months and then married.  The motel across the street where I worked, the donut shop, the liquor store and my apartment are still standing as what they were 41 years ago with the exception of SOP, now a woman’s dress shop.   Of course John’s work place, Chico State University, still stands although it long ago lost its Playboy Magazine standing as the number one party school in the nation.

Dinner tonight at the Lodge.  It’s Tightwad Tuesday buffet with drinks, a huge salad bar, gumbo/rice, fresh steamed veggies, pork medallions and yeast rolls.  We sat with one couple, her brother and they were delightful company.  Shared memories of life in Chico years ago until we were the last table to leave.  We love staying at Elks RV Parks.  Meeting members,  being invited into their lodge and being treated as if we were long standing members certainly gives you a feeling of comfort and safety.