I recently had a lobster dinner for $12.95 on lobster night at Reilley's Northend Pub on Hilton Head Island. This is a regular Monday feature and the place was packed. We got plastic bibs and a shell cracker with each dinner as well as corn on the cob and boiled potatoes. The service was excellent.
Without knowing it, I must have been in some kind of shell for a long time because I never heard of an Arnold Palmer until lunch this week. For those who shared life-in-the-shell this is a combination of tea and lemonade. The tea can be sweet (as I prefer) or unsweetened. (And after living in the South since 1959, I subscribe to the thought that you cannot sweeten tea after it is served. Sugar has to be the first thing in the pitcher when making sweet tea and the boiling tea poured over it with more water and ice to finish it off.)
I went to see The Intern, a feel good movie with Robert deNiro. He has apparently conceded to his age and appears in more comedies than action movies, e.g. Ronin. This weekend I will travel to Atlanta to attend a three day reunion of the Carolinas and Georgia chapter of CIRA, (Central Intelligence Retirees Association.) They extended honorary membership to me last year and Joyce and I went to Beaufort, N.C., for the 2014 reunion. We had a great time, met some old friends again and made some new ones. I expect to do the same this year. I have signed up for tours of Coca Cola, Center for Civil and Human Rights, CNN VIP tour and Georgia Aquarium. All ought to be highly interesting.
Visits with my children, some here and some in Charleston have also been good times. My daughter, Martha, remembered how much I enjoyed a humungous slice of coconut cake in a Charleston restaurant and she shipped me a similar piece in an iced container for my birthday to begin the month of October. The moment I had the container opened my brain sent an Eat Now message to my body. I ate half on arrival and I ate the rest the next day. One word to describe, or make it two; Absolutely delicious.
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I went to see The Intern, a feel good movie with Robert deNiro. He has apparently conceded to his age and appears in more comedies than action movies, e.g. Ronin. This weekend I will travel to Atlanta to attend a three day reunion of the Carolinas and Georgia chapter of CIRA, (Central Intelligence Retirees Association.) They extended honorary membership to me last year and Joyce and I went to Beaufort, N.C., for the 2014 reunion. We had a great time, met some old friends again and made some new ones. I expect to do the same this year. I have signed up for tours of Coca Cola, Center for Civil and Human Rights, CNN VIP tour and Georgia Aquarium. All ought to be highly interesting.
Visits with my children, some here and some in Charleston have also been good times. My daughter, Martha, remembered how much I enjoyed a humungous slice of coconut cake in a Charleston restaurant and she shipped me a similar piece in an iced container for my birthday to begin the month of October. The moment I had the container opened my brain sent an Eat Now message to my body. I ate half on arrival and I ate the rest the next day. One word to describe, or make it two; Absolutely delicious.
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