But today we lured them up here to Mesa.. They hadn't seen or been to our new house out here in sticks ville.... So with address in hand, or rather entered into their GPS, they arrived mid morning...
We spent an hour looking all over the house and Roger and I ended up in the garage messing around with the motor cycle... He rode years ago, but succumbed to spousal pressure to desist....
He was amazed and the number of push buttons and switches on the Honda... We had to go thru most of them deciding what each controlled.. That was kind of a test for me as I had to explain each of them.. And that exposes weak spots rather rapidly...
But by lunch time we decided to head over to Joe's Farm Grill.... Over on Ray Road and Higley, this is an old time family farm that has been converted to a produce garden... Most of what they grow is organic and is used for input to their restaurant..
They have a coffee shop and a grill... The grill has all kinds of salads and eclectic menu items like a Portobello Mushroom sandwich... The place was swamped, with a line hanging out of the grill building on the sidewalk in front...
We had to wait about 45 minutes just to order... Once our orders were in, we went out to the rear of the building where there were picnic tables set up under giant trees that had to be several hundred years old... We had buzzers to alert us when to go to the delivery window..
I had a burger with bacon blue cheese and barbecue sauce... The blue cheese was in a crumbly heavy cream sauce.... I can't remember the other meals, but I think Roger had a portobello mushroom salad...........
It was about 75 degrees as we sat in the shade of the big trees and about a three mile an hour wind from the South.... It is peaceful and quiet with the open fields all around you as you dine... The fields are not planted yet and some of the things that are there were frozen off and brown...
This freeze got us all... We came back to the center of town afterward and did a post office run.. We drove around for a while and went thru the RV park but our friends are not RVers and aren't much interested in that style of life..
Once back home we sat out in the back yard enjoying the afternoon and each other's company....
A relaxing and wonderful day....
Retired Rod
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You had a burger? What a surprise. Nothing like showing on old biker all the gidgets and gadgets on a new bike. I'll bet he was drooling!
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