Thursday, the keeper rose earlier than usual and spent the morning on the deck, and 90 minutes with Qwest trying to get better deals. It worked, she said, but we must look at the long haul pay offs, not the cost of the present 90 minutes. She rode furiously into town as the mist came, and she dodged and weaved though all of the trucks and flaggers who are repaving the roads and building a crazy roundabout in the middle of town. As a reward she stopped at Buddy and Howies’ Candy Shoppe, looking for an Idaho Spud, but had to settle for mango and black Australian style licorice and those wax bottles ( Nickel Lips!) with some kind of flavored juice. She had a nice visit with the editor of the town paper who invited her to submit a list of her 10 favorite things to do in OS. He has done a remarkable job of turning that sorry little rag around and finding news in the most simple of places. Then she headed to La Chica Taqueria for a heavenly carnita ( pork) taco. Chez Chey was closing up very early because the roundabout construction had driven away all of her trade. It was ghostly vacant of tourists. She had a good poster up about the barrel racing which was taking place on her street, eg…the crazy construction project and the way the workers mindlessly move the barrels around. It’s a labor intensive project, for sure. The poster noted lots of free parking, since no one was visiting (and it is true!)
She ended her adventures with a real movie in a real theater..only 8 people were watching, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But she was grateful for the lack of fight scenes. Julie and Julia starts on Friday, so she may end her beach days at the movies again. It is raining again. SHe is comin home to us on Saturday.
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