Lakewood Rod and Gun Club Members!

Gambling at Rod and Gun Club with Donna Nelson

7:48

A rainy, windy, cold (47 degrees) morning, though I just saw a lone fishing boat braving the wind and rain, amazing.  I was up at 6:30, listened to Only A Game, and now it's time for Weekend Edition Saturday, with Scott Simon.  It looks like a good day to stay inside, do some cooking, and read, which I am sure we will do.  We are having the Mc Clures over for dinner,  Evie's special lasagna, and perhaps we will watch a movie, depending upon our mood.

We went to the Lakewood Rod and Gun Club last night, with Sam and Donna Nelson, old friends of ours from Busti.  They called to tell us if we met them, they would sponsor us for membership and we could join Friday night.  We met them there, sat at the busy bar, filled out our forms, wrote a check for 90 bucks and we are now members of the club.  I think we are going to like it much more than the Viking Club mostly because it seems busier, larger, more bar stools,  dinner seating and it's on the way to Wegman's, making it more convenient.  Obviously, Fridays are the busiest but there were literally people waiting to be seated from 6 to 8, that's how busy they were.  The prices are quite good, a fish fry for 7.95 and they have specials every night, for example, on Sunday it's chicken and biscuits for 6.95.  It seems like most of Lakewood was there, at least the upwardly mobile Caucasians from the area.  I like the idea of a bar menu every night, a set menu for most nights, including burgers, steaks, and specials most nights as well.  So, we will have to wait to see if we really use this membership much as we have not gone to the Viking Club much over the past year, perhaps four or five times.  Like all these clubs, they sell a kind of numbers game, for a dollar, and if the numbers match you can win anywhere from 1 to 200 dollars.  While we were there, Donna won 50 bucks twice, a 100 once but we are not sure how much money she spent to win it.  When ever we have been with them, she seems to win.  Evie spent five and won a dollar!  Then, spent another 5 and won nothing.  There's a moral there.

It's now 4:45, the fire place is warming up the living room, the dinner's made, the house is clean, and Evie's exhausted, sort of, as she has been going at it since 8:00 and is just now taking a shower.  That gal has energy!  Now I am a different story, sorry to say, more of a sloth, a book worm though I did help out, doing the dishes and vacuuming, and taking the trash to the depot, and working out at the gym, shooting baskets for a half an hour or so.  I am the cleaner upper after Evie cooks, the sous chef of the dish washing world.  And I have been reading a new book, given to me by an elderly gentlemen at the CI library.  I was browsing and he came up, handed a book to me, said I would enjoy it, it was the best book he's ever read.  So I took it out and have started it, called THE KEEPER'S SON by Homer Hickam, the novelist who also wrote ROCKET BOYS, which was later made into a movie called October Skies.  So far, so good, as it's set mostly during WW II on an island off the coast of North Carolina, thus the title, as we follow the Lighthouse Keepers son Josh Thurlow, who commands a Coast Guard vessel on the island.