Evie's Night at The Rod and Gun Club

The Big Winner at the Rod and Gun Club (at last)

5:50

Gambling at the Rod and Gun

It's 5:30 and I can see wisps of fog moving along the surface of the lake, as the cold air hits  the warm lake.  It's 53 degrees and I have put on a fleece.  Three days ago we were sweating bullets.  The eastern sky, just above the horizon, is turning orange as the sun still sits beneath the tree line.  A few fishermen are out but it still seems as if summer has yet to arrive.

I never tire of saying yesterday was another great day, sunny, clear, cool enough to sit outside on the dock but not so hot that you had to seek relief beneath our trees.  The lake, surprisingly, was not too busy despite the weather.  Last weekend, in contrast, almost seemed like the 4th of July as everyone seemed to be up for the weekend.  Even Pine Hill has been calm, with mostly Amish staying for the week, spending most of their day out fishing.  Evie did more weed cutting, enjoyed the neighbor's kids in the lake, and read most of the afternoon.  I decided to be Sisyphus and went off to the Tri James gravel yard, shoveled a couple of cubic feet of sand into my containers, drove them home, and lugged them out to the end of the dock, and spread the sand on the bottom of the lake, near the ladder, my attempt to thwart the weeds.  An absurd experiment,  I know, but what the heck.  I will try anything once.  After my efforts,  I could not even tell if the bottom was any different from before so I doubt if I will try this again.  It gave me something concrete to do.  Other than that and a trip to the Transfer Station, I read and watched some of the Spain/France soccer match.

Enjoying the Late Afternoon

At 6:00, Ron and Linda Mc Clure and Linda's sister Janet, came over for a beer in the yard before we drove off for dinner at the Rod and Gun Club in Lakewood.  As expected, everyone in Lakewood seemed to be there so we sat at the huge bar for forty five minutes before being seated.  Evie was in rare form, in her element, a bar with gambling.  She and Linda love to play ticket lotto, where you buy a card for a dollar, peal back three windows and have a chance to win up to a hundred bucks.  Well, within the first five minutes, Evie won a hundred and our night was made.  She continued to win two dollar tickets as well, so both of them played off and on during the night.  We all had the prime rib dinner for $10.95 with potato and salad and like last time, it was as good as we have had in awhile.  At 9:00 the band Happy Days took over, played mostly oldies but goodies from the 50's and 60's like Dion's Runaround Sue and Chubby Checkers's The Twist, to the delight of the diners, as the dance floor was packed with people our age.  We stayed till about 9:45 and it was a great night.  By the way, Evie bought dinner for all of us and we still came home twenty bucks ahead.  Alas, the gambling trap has been set...Evie will be back, eager to win again, each time we return...the more you spend, the more you lose !  But not last night.