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Chinese food escape
Monday, June 25 2012
Gretchen had another of her poetry workshops today, which meant the driveway was filled with cars and there were strangers down in the dining room. Normally I would hole up in the laboratory, but Ray and Nancy were on their way to West Hurley to pick up their Jeep and wondered if I wanted to go with them to the Little Bear, which currently has the status of our favorite Hudson Valley Chinese restaurant. I said okay, so they picked me up at the end of the driveway and away we went. They'd taken their Jeep to the Getty gas station adjacent to Hurley Ridge Market, and supposedly they'd fixed a problem somewhere in the tail pipe. It was still making a fair amount of noise, though, and I found there was still a hole in the muffler that could use a patch.
It being a Monday night, there weren't many people at the Little Bear, and most of the people we saw were at the bar. Ray, who is a bartender at the Red Onion, said he knew most of those people. It's a small town with its own circulating population of bar regulars.
There wasn't much news other than a depressing $6000 quote Nancy had gotten for surgery to fix her gums. Supposedly she has weak bone around the roots of her teeth and fixing the gums will help. "We could buy a new furnace for that," Nancy sighed. (Their furnace is getting old, but it could still have ten years left in it.) Let's see, for $6000, one could pay for three or four canine ACL surgeries. The state of Ramona's right knee, as well as Gretchen's workplace troubles, are our bad news, but that's all old news. In any case, the food at the Little Bear is still delicious. A new menu item we tried today was a vegan "eel" that had been made from dried mushrooms. It was somewhat chewy but delicious, yet Nancy didn't want any.
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