Wednesday we left Chattanooga and moved down to Harvest Moon RV Park in Adairsville, GA for the next three days. We've stayed here before and it's about a mile off I-75 and as close to Atlanta as we can get. Once settled in, I got the laundry caught up, along with some phone calls, and we just took it easy the rest of the day.
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| Me and Pat |
Thursday: My dear friend, Pat and husband Les, came for a visit this afternoon and it was such a delight to see them again. Pat and I bought into brand new
Bentley Ridge Condominiums in 1981 and became fast friends. Hmm...there's a story about us racing over a fire hose to get to
John Henry's (our neighborhood bar), but I won't get into that here. Anyway, we had great times there, one of which was assembling a gas grill one rainy day, over a bucket of margaritas. Once it was together, we were worried we would blow up the clubroom, not to mention ourselves, if we lit it. HA! Buckets of margaritas were the norm at the pool back then. You actually bought the bucket, complete with tequila, put it in the freezer, then VOILLA!
They had not seem our RV so, once again, the
GRAND TOUR, then wine and catch-up time. For all of you
"wine snobs" out there, Pat and Les brought a bottle of
BUTTER, a California Chardonnay, which is a
Rombauer knock-off.
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| BUTTER |
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| Maine Street Coastal Cuisine |
George found a restaurant on YELP called
Maine Street Coastal Cuisine in downtown Cartersville. The menu sounded fantastic so we tried it. We were a bit worried at first as there was only 2 other people in the restaurant. As it turned out, we hit the jackpot! Everyone's meal was absolutely fantastic except Pat's was a bit spicy. Sadly, it was time to say
"Bye Bye for now" but they promised to come see us and take a trip up to Sedona and the Grand Canyon and lots of golf. It's actually because of Pat that I took up golf. We first took up tennis because the outfits were cute. Then, she met Les, and decided to try golf. Tennis was not fun anymore without Pat so, I tried golf and was hooked forever.
We drove back to Chattanooga
Friday morning to attend Maxine's funeral. It was very sad losing Maxine, she was such a great and funny lady. Her husband, Jack, was terribly upset. They were just weeks away from celebrating their 67th anniversary. It was good, however, to see her daughter Marta, and son Chuck. All of my other cousins were there to pay their respects also.
We left Chattanooga about 4:00, stopped by the RV to feed the cats, get changed then on to Bob and Janis's house. We met Bob at the
Atlanta Singles Golf Association and became friends. He later met Janis and the four of us spent a lot of time golfing together, eating out, etc. When we moved to Florida, they moved into our house until their new home in
Laurel Canyon was completed, which is a very long story. We had a very relaxing evening at their house. Bob cooked some fantastic steaks on his
Big Green Egg and Janis prepared a wonderful salad with asparagus, blueberries, bleu cheese and greens; roasted potatoes, rolls and sweet potato pie. They, too, promised to come visit us in Arizona so, once again,
"Bye, Bye for now"...
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