on the road again - pt 5

Monday:

Dogs apparently have tender tushes. The hair there needs to be trimmed with care.

Dogs have glands in the area that need "expressing" periodically.

Dogs like to lick themselves even when they have medication on.

The weekend and now Monday and Tuesday have been interesting learning thsse facts. But the dog is not amused.

And now for something completely different.

Eventually all good restaurants disappoint. Last night it was a little Greek place called Apollo. Moussaka as a cooked dish assembled after the fact and not baked. Sigh!

Today it was an Indian place. Just having an Indian place in such a small market is amazing and a blessing. But when potatoes are used to make dishes cheaper and pakora is more batter than vegetable, it is sad.

Tonight Olive Garden proved again it is not worthy of patronage. Very over cooked tilapia to be point of being mush covered with some funky bread crumb concoction. But it is outrageous to serve undersized portions of macaroni and cheese to children. My son finds it a good restaurant and his wife mostly agrees. So it goes.

But we went to a nice little light show down by a lake (Onondoga?) in or near Syracuse. The kids liked it. As did their parents. All's well that end's well.

I just wish I had brought my songbooks. Everyone misses the traditional carols, including me. Secular Christmas is a downer. The season needs a reason.

Have a blessed Advent -- waiting!