Just Not Feeling It Today

This little blurb is just to let y'all know I am not going to post anything today.

I am just ragged out right now.
Tired from last week's stuff and I don't want to start in on anything new or work on projects that never seem to go away either.

I am going to go eat something, veg out, maybe take a nap. 
The only worry I'll concern myself with is what to serve for dinner when Hubs comes home.

And with that I am off to be a slug......

Sluggy

This Week on the Dining Table

It's the "The Kid is Gone" Edition--

 

College Boy left on Sunday.  He's in the marching band at college so he goes back a week earlier than most due to Band Camp.  I think he is glad to be back if only because it means he doesn't have to wash dishes in the restaurant he slaved worked at this Summer. 
I am glad too that I don't have to be quiet until 2pm each day so he could sleep.  Plus I never knew each morning when I got up whether we had overnight guests in the house and my kitchen was a mess from late night cooking sessions. lolz

Onward to the meal planning!

 

Here's what was planned last week.......
 

1. Sunday--Subway sandwiches(still not feeling well enough to cook)
2. Monday--Rotisserie Chicken, Veggies, Corn Casserole
3. Tuesday--Lasagna, Salad, Bread
4. Wednesday--Pizza and/or Wings at local place(I have a freebie Q)
5. Thursday--Burgers or leftovers
6. Friday--Various Seafood items in freezer, Veggies TBD
7. Saturday--Leftovers

 

And this is what actually happened--

1. Sunday--Subway sandwiches(still not feeling well enough to cook)
2. Monday--Rotisserie Chicken, Corn Casserole
3. Tuesday--Lasagna, Salad, Bread
4. Wednesday--BBQ Pork Sandwiches with Cole Slaw
5. Thursday--Burgers for Lunch(Hubs was home)and Leftovers for Dinner(I had green beans, Hubs had GBs and Lasagna)
6. Friday--Salmon, Creamed Spinach
7. Saturday--Pizza(a freebie) and assorted leftovers

 

As for my grocery spending last week.....Maine Source, Sam's Club and 2 small trips to Weis that cost me $188.21 OOP(I also used the $20 Weis gift card.)
August food spending now stands at $297.86.  I have a paltry $52.14 left in the budget this month and August is barely half over!
meh.
I'm going to try to eat from food stores we have in the house for the rest of August.
Easier said than done!

Leftovers going into this week--rotisserie chicken pieces, barbecue pork and cole slaw.
 

Here is this week's food plan--

1. Sunday--Eating Out(after lugging CB back to school)
2. Monday--Pork Chops w/Peach Glaze(have), Squash Casserole(have)
3. Tuesday--Various seafood(in freezer), Fried Zucchini(have)
4. Wednesday--Barbecue(leftovers)on rolls, Cole Slaw(have)
5. Thursday--Chicken Marsala(have), Tom and Cuke Salad(have)
6. Friday--Steaks(have), Corn on cob or leftover Squash
7. Saturday--Kielbasa or Meatballs on rolls(have), Beans(have)

What I need to buy for this menu?.....corn....unless I have leftover squash then I don't need corn.  That's it.
I might change up one of these meals for BLTs depending on the weather.  I have a partial head of iceberg lettuce I need to use up but this change would involve buying tomatoes this week....unless I want to use OUR tomatoes and make the sandwiches micro-BLTs. lolz

 

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?    

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten that week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week? 

Sluggy

Sort of Busy Weekend

This weekend has been pretty full but not so much in the "get shit done" area.

Friday I got my prescription at Weis and got that $20 free gift card in my grubby little hands........

And it promptly got spend along with another $14 or so.
bleh.

Then I picked our first ripe tomatoes of the season..........

You will notice that they are not much larger than a quarter and NO, they are NOT cherry tomatoes. lolz
Big old Fail so far in the garden on the 'mater front.

Saturday I exercised and ate and putzed around on the computer basically. 

College Boy's band, Docile Sponge had a "gig" on Saturday afternoon.....

The Link to one of their numbers is HERE


This morning I was up early and checked the garden again. We got 2 full days of rain followed by heat last week so most things are perking up out there.

2 more yellow squash.  The only thing doing well in the garden are the squash plants.

And I picked some green bean......yes, I mean singular......

This is the totality of our green bean harvest to now.
(Not counting the handful of yellow beans we picked in July.)

Pretty sad, huh?
The bean vines are just blooming actually now, mid August.  I have never had beans come in this late.

Our 29.7 oz. garden harvest brings us up to 6.25 lbs. for the season.

But the BIG NEWS this weekend......(click on Big News for a video clip)......

My living room went from this---

To this earlier today---

Hubs picked up the cargo van this morning.....

And we hauled everything out into it..........

One last sweep of the house and College Boy's lair and then they were off back to school........

Here's hoping for a great year for you son!
Go to class, pass your courses, practice, practice, practice and most importantly call your mother.

Now excuse me while I go find a shovel and begin the long process of excavating his room out and wait for the electricity meter on the house to stop spinning like a Tasmanian devil.  8-)

Sluggy

 

 

Not Quite Ancestor in the News

As I've noted before, many of my maternal European lines of genealogy have been in America since the 1600's.
So far the ancestors who qualify me for membership in "The Jamestowne Society"  that I directly descend from on my 8 maternal great grandparents' lines are........

* Walter Aston
* Francis Clements
* Richard Foster
* Benjamin Harrison I
* Bartholomew Hoskins
* William Hunt
* Francis Mason
* Samuel Matthews
* Frances Greville West Peirsey Matthews
* Nicholas Meriwether
* Thomas Sheppey
* Armiger Wade

I also have a Tabitha Edloe which may go back to Matthew Edloe(who is on the Jamestown list)but that line requires more research.
And if anyone can ever figure out IF Nicholas Meriwether's wife Elizabeth was in fact a WOODHOUSE and then can get to the bottom of whether she is the daughter of Thomas Woodhouse OR the granddaughter of Henry Woodhouse(who both are qualifying ancestor's for the Jamestowne Society) then I'd have another line to chalk up on my list.

But I digress......

I want to talk about the ancestors named William Hunt from the list above and an exciting recent find at Jamestown, the site of the first permanent English Colony in Virginia.

I am descended from William Hunt through my great grandfather Robert William HARPER.

This photo was taken at a family reunion type gathering in June of 1955. It shows my mother and brothers standing with mom's father, Wirt Ross Harper(left) and his dad, Robert William Harper(center).  This Harper line is the one that takes me back to William Hunt.  I never knew/don't recall this great grandfather Robert Harper since he died in 1961 when I was not quite 2 years old.

Then going back in the line, we go from Robert HARPER's mother Mary Agnes DRISKILL, from her mother Sarah MASON, from her father Joseph H. MASON, from his mother Jane PARHAM, from her father Ephraim Stith PARHAM, from his father William PARHAM, from his father Thomas PARHAM,, Jr., from his mother Susannah HUNT, from her father William HUNT.

Got that all?
Good. '-)

This line at William Hunt starts out in Jamestown. the VA Colony and removes to Charles City County, Virginia with William sometime before his death in 1676.   Charles City(or Citie) County was an area east of present day Richmond and west of Jamestown(and present day Williamsburg), a more inland area. 

Within a couple of generations of the PARHAMS, the line removed to Sussex County Virginia which is more south and east from the coast.  Joseph MASON III married Jane PARHAM(the widow of William THWEATT)in Southampton County Virginia(which had been part of Sussex County).

This line stayed there until Jane PARHAM's husband Joseph MASON moved into Campbell County Virginia.  the next 5 generations on this line bounced back and forth between Campbell, Charlotte and Prince Edward Counties in Virginia, until my grandparents moved with my mother from Charlotte County to the Norfolk Virginia metro area.

I find it interesting to see the migration patterns of family lines and it IS helpful sometimes when you are stuck on an ancestor as to whether it makes sense to question the validity of whether they belong in your line or not when faced with a lack of confirming documentation as well.

Anyway, I saw a news article last week online HERE.
Through the use of DNA scientists have proved that the remains of 4 of the original colonists exhumed from graves on Jamestown Island recently are--

Captain Gabriel Archer-He didn't care for Capt. John Smith and unsuccessfully attempted to have him executed.  He led early expeditions from Jamestown up the James River looking for gold and silver.

Sir Ferdinando Wainman-He came to Jamestown in the 1610 expedition of Thomas West, 3rd Baron Lord De La Warr, which arrived in the nick of time with supplies to save the remaining inhabitants of the Colony.  Being a military man he took charge of the colony's defenses.
His work was short lived however as Wainman died from disease a few months after arriving and is the first English Knight to be interred in American soil.

Captain William West-A relative of Wainman accompanied him on that 1610 ship to Jamestown.
He was killed by natives near the present day location of Richmond VA.

Reverend Robert Hunt-Chaplain in the original expedition in 1607 that founded the Jamestown Colony.

I want to talk about this Robert Hunt a bit as many trees on Ancestry and elsewhere have linked him to my Hunt line as the father of my William Hunt.
There is not one inkling of fact to proof that this connection is accurate however.
But he is an interesting figure in our country's earliest history.

What is known about Robert Hunt at this point......

Robert Hunt was born circa 1568 in England.
He was a vicar(minister)in the Church of England which was the Anglican religion formed when Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in order to divorce his first wife Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn.
This Anglican religion when brought to America morphed into what is the Episcopal Protestant faith on these shores. 

Robert was the vicar of the congregation in Reculver, Kent, England.  He was forced to leave this congregation due to his unfaithful wife who was accused of adultery or as they put it back then, "seeing too much of that John Taylor".

Rovert left in disgrace in 1602 and his wife and two children remained behind.  He was moved to Old Heathfield church in Sussex, England.

In 1606 he was removed from this situation due to being accused of having an affair with his servant, Thomasina Plumber.  He was also accused by Church officials of abandoning and neglecting his  flock.

So what is a twice disgraced man of the cloth to do?
Why sail off to a new place and start fresh!

Rev. Hunt was offered a place on board the first ship of a new business venture, due to set sail for North America presently.

This company was the London Company(also known as the Charter of the Virginia Company of London)which was founded by royal decree by James I in 1606 for the purpose of founding English settlements in the New World.
Robert Hunt was recruited by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Bancroft, Richard Hakluyt, Jr. and Edward-Maria Wingfield(all early organizers and promoters of this venture)to be the expedition's and subsequent colony's chaplain.

Rev. Hunt sailed on the headship for the expedition, the vessel the Susan Constant(also referred to sometimes as the Sarah Constant), captained by Christopher Newport.  Also in the fleet to American were the ships Discovery and the Godspeed.

Here's the current replica of the ship moored on the James River near Jamestown Settlement.

"JamestownShips" by Warfieldian - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamestownShips.jpg#/media/File:JamestownShips.jpg

After 144 days at sea the 3 ships made landfall in the New World on 26 April 1607 on a point of land at the southern edge of where the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay meet.  They named this location Cape Henry for the then current Prince of Wales, Frederick Henry, the eldest son of King James I.

Cape Henry today is located in the town I spent some of my childhood years in, Virginia Beach, VA.
The brick Cape Henry lighthouse was constructed near this site in 1792 and it's replacement was built 350 feet away from the first one in 1881.
Both remain standing today.........

But I digress.....

After making landfall at Cape Henry the Rev. Robert Hunt conducted the first religious service for the 105 Jamestown colonists in a makeshift shelter on 29 April 1607.

This area in Virginia Beach became a military base, Fort Story in 1914, and part of a state park opened in 1936.  The park was called Seashore State Park until 1997 when the name was changed to First Landing State Park to honor the first colonists who landed here before establishing Jamestown further up the Chesapeake Bay to the James River.

There is a memorial commemorating Robert Hunt at Jamestown.

After about a month living on the shores of the Chesapeake at Cape Henry the colonists boarded their ships and sailed inland to a location northwest of there on the banks of the James River and founded the Virginia Colony on a peninsula. (Due to erosion the peninsula has become an island today.)

Reverend Hunt was to die within that year at Jamestown in the Spring 1608 from disease. 
The location chosen to found the Colony was less than ideal in many way.  There was no fresh water supply, surrounded on 2 sides by swamps which were breeding grounds for malaria carrying mosquitoes and there was little suitable land for farming.  The only asset to the location was it's defensive positioning against enemies by land and by water.

Death was the fate of many of those 105 first settlers as well as the 140+ settlers who came via the 2 Supply ship voyages in 1608.  By 1610 about 80% of these early colonists had died from either disease, hunger or having been killed in skirmishes with the native peoples.  1609-1610 is referred to in Jamestown history as "the Starving Time".  By the end of the Winter of 1610, 500 total settlers had made the voyage to Jamestown but only 60 survived to that Spring.

As for my William Hunt, the "Baconite", my 10 x Great Grandfather, there is no proof to this point that he is the son of Rev. Robert Hunt of the original Jamestown settlers.

My William was born in 1599 and it's speculated the location of birth was Heathfield, England the same location as Rev. Hunt's congregation but no one has come forward with any paper records to prove the familial connection.
When Robert Hunt was removed from his parish in Kent, England there is no mention of a second son(much less a son named William).  If Robert left his wife back in Kent I doubt that another child was born to them(and there is no mention of Robert having a child with his servant he was accused of sleeping with in the Sussex parish).
It is known that William Hunt sailed to America on the ship "Abraham" in 1635, landing in Virginia.  He was a planter in Virginia and a merchant importing/selling goods from England in the colony.
Could William have been a son of Robert, born in Heathfield, who removed to America in 1635?
Possible since there is no known documentation on William's life before he left England.

There are 2 trees on Ancestry that have William's father as either Richard Hunt or John Hunt but with no supporting documentation as well.   The rest all have Rev. Hunt as his father.
I suppose we will never know for sure unless someone digs up and tests the remains of William and compares his with those of Robert Hunt.

Even if Robert Hunt is not my 11 x GGrand, it's exciting news to know that his remains have been identified.

I guess it's because I am a nerdy genealogist type.  8-)

Sluggy

May 2015 Road Trip Part 2.....Biscuits, Bourbon and Buddies

Day 2 of our Road Trip adventure is sponsored by the Letter "B".
A trifecta of B things.....

We checked out of the death trap motel room.....

Yes that was our smoke detector dangling from the ceiling.  At least it was still connected as the little green light attests.
Me thinks the Quality Inn in Huntington WV needs a new handyman.....

And before bugging out I tried to double check our directions for the day since the GPS was having seizures and couldn't be relied upon.
And here is what MapQuest told me about our route...........

I now know that it's really true that you "can't get there from here" if the locations are Huntington, WV and Lawrenceburg, KY.

A quick stop for refueling the car and there was no doubt that we were in "Dew Country".....

I've heard tales that there is a real problem in WV went it comes to soda drinking.  The soda of choice is Mountain Dew and the kids start imbibing it here as infants/toddlers.  Mtn. Dew is very high in citric acids and sugar which leads to dental problems.

We then went a block down toward the interstate and made our first visit to Tudor's Biscuit World. 

If you love a biscuit then BW is your version of Biscuit Nirvana!

So many choices so what to pick!?

The front-end employee  was very friendly(yes, we are in the South I reminded myself)and helped guide us through the Biscuit Maze of Choices.

I got a pretty basic country ham biscuit while Hubs opted for one of the specialty multi-ingredient choices.

I also got a Fried Apples Biscuit which the employee recommended but I was too full to eat it so it was tucked into the cooler to save for my snack that evening.

Next time maybe I'll get that BIG TATOR Platter.....yikes!

We had such a good time chatting with the employee I asked to take his picture for the blog.

Robert is truly an asset to Huntington's Biscuit World location.  He has such a good attitude and treats his customers like royalty!
The employee's tip jar on the counter got stuffed before we left for sure.

Listen up BW owner--Robert needs/deserves a raise before another business snatches him away from you!
I'm just sayin'.....

Finally onto the interstate and heading toward the next state on our agenda......

Oh goody....another place playing up the whole Lincoln myth....just what I need.....lolz

We crossed over into KY outside Ashland, a grimy non-scenic oil refining town.  Not a very good first impression of our time in Kentucky but it is what it is and you've got to exploit your natural resources after all.

As we drove further west into the state the scenery greatly improved.
But we didn't stop until we got to Lexington.
And here is the extent of my sightseeing in Lexington.........

A big liquor store in town we just happened to drive by on our way through.  I am still kicking myself for not buying that coconut moonshine!  Didn't see that flavor any place else on this trip.  sigh

You gotta love the name of this ale....Cougar Bait!  It's made by the local Lexington brewery, Country Boy.
I guess after a few of these if you wander out into the woods you would be considered Cougar Bait! lolz

Once we hit outside of Lexington the stereotypical horse farm scenery of the Bluegrass State was evident.....

Just one of many horse farms we passed.

We even got to see the Versailles Castle.  It started out in 1969 as a private residence but divorce and death got in the way of the owners finishing it.   It was sold in 2003 and despite a fire and having to rebuild it's now operating as an inn.
The website is HERE.
The rates are a bit rich for my blood and there isn't even a pool! lolz

We finally made it to Lawrenceburg before noon to see the house the Jimmy built.

 

The Jimmy in question is Jimmy Russell the master distiller for the past 60 YEARS at Wild Turkey Distillery.

So we got to the new Visitor Center at Wild Turkey(which was pretty snazzy)bought our tour and tasting tickets and poked around the gift shop while we waited.

Hubs tries on a hat....
He should have bought it as it's a mite better than the one he sports now.

He ended up getting this "Give 'Em the Bird" t-shirt(at my insistence)....I am a bad, bad influence.....

I tired on this Bourbon Trail hat but at $24.95 it was definitely going to stay in that shop! lolz

Then it was time to get on the short bus.....

We toured various buildings at the Wild Turkey Distillery with our guide, Bubba.  Yes his name is Bubba.
He was quite the ambassador for the brand.

Hubs took this shot of me and a really big bird......

I have placed the videos I took of the tour on my YouTube page.  If you are interested in Bourbon Talk you can access them via these links...........

Part One HERE
Part Two HERE
Part Three HERE
Part Four HERE
Part Five HERE

Other than the videos I didn't take many more still shots at Wild Turkey.

Here's a vast open vat of mash fermenting.......

And here is Hubs inside one of the buildings with the fermenting mash tanks with a "photo op" specifically placed here for this purpose.
I will tell you that that building smelled amazing! 8-)

 

Here is the outside of one of the "barrel" buildings.  These are huge old warehouses where the barrels of bourbon age.  Though it was quite muggy and warm the day we toured the distillery facilities it was quite cool inside this dark dank building.  And kind of creepy too......

I don't have any photos of the bottling production building.  Compari bought out Wild Turkey a few years ago and build a million dollar bottling facility here in Lawrenceburg KY but they don't allow photos of the insides of the place.  We did see various production lines though no bottling was being done that day.

This is a large copper still that sits in the Wild Turkey tasting area.  Nothing notable to say about it, it was just interesting as room décor. lolz

And here is the tasting bar with the varieties of bourbon they make set out.  We each got 4(I think?  It's been so long I can't recall and drinking bourbon makes me forget shit anyway)samples.  The one I really wanted to try they were out of....boooo!
But I soldiered on and made the best of it. ;-)

After tasting we went back to the gift shop and Hubs got his t-shirt and a few bottles of bourbon.  He even paid extra to have his name put on the label of one bottle.......

Then we were off to our next stop of the day.
We were passing right past another craft distillery so we decided to stop in before going to visit my friends.

The problem is we passed right by this distillery!  When they said it was a MICRO distillery they weren't kidding. lolz

One little building.  We had to stop at a Walmart and call them to find it.

We go in and were greeted.
First was a big chunk of family history though.
The owners are Paul and Steve(the master distiller)Beam who founded this distillery.
There immediate family goes back 5 generations in the alcohol business and they are part of the larger extended Beam family which includes many of the past and present master distillers in Kentucky.

The only distillery who has not had a Beam employed at it's facilities(or the different named predecessor of it's facilities)is Wild Turkey.  The Beam family got it's start in the late 18th century when immigrants of the Bohm family came to America and settled in Kentucky. By 1795 Johannes "Reginald" Beam sold his first corn whiskey in the bourbon style under a brand known as Old Tub.

Steve and Paul are also the great great grandson's of Joseph Washington Dant who started the JW Dant distillery in 1836 and his Dant brand is still being made today over at Heaven Hill distillery.
Ah, the incestuous nature of bourbon whiskey making in Kentucky.....

After the history lesson, I pop into the ladies room to freshen up.

 

You know me and taking pictures of interesting bathrooms.....

Then it was off into the work area of the facility.
Here's a barrel of fermenting mash.  We got to stick our fingers in this and taste it.
Don't worry it gets boiled to death later and our finger germs are killed.

Here are more barrels of mash fermenting.

Their signature banner on the wall of the distillery.

Hubs posing with their pot still(it's copper of course).

A side note about Limestone Branch......if you watched that Discovery channel reality TV show called Moonshiners, then you know that one of the people profiled is Virginia moonshiner Tim Smith and his assistant Tickle.   then you might like to know that after Tim and Tickle went "legit" and started making legal moonshine, Steve Beam at Limestone Branch distills some of the Tim Smith "Climax".  They don't sell it here but the bottle you buy may have been produced here.

Then it was on to the tasting room.

Their brand of Sugar Shines is named after TJ Pottinger(TJ as in Thomss Jefferson)a historical figure in Nelson Co. KY.
They have a whiskey called Minor's Revenge, named after their great grandfather Minor Case Beam.
They also make a "sugar whiskey" called Precinct No. 6.  Technically not a whiskey but it is aged in oak barrels and has a whiskey like flavor.

They also are the only makers of Moon Pie brand moonshine.  These taste like a moon pie meets alcohol.
They have some recipe ideas for mixed cocktails using their flavors on the website HERE.

After all that we strolled around the gift shop.
This was a cute little whiskey related item in there....a miniature pot still candle warmer....

But my favorite part of the gift shop was this......

The row after row of adult beverages!
I called Sonya Ann from here since I know she is a fan of flavored moonshines to see what she wanted me to bring her, but the call went to voicemail.
Too bad, so sad........

I bought a *cough* few *cough* things......

An assortment of small bottles.

And 1 large bottle and a jar of banana moon pie moonshine.
I also bought a hat here as it was nicer and cheaper than the ones at Wild Turkey.

It was about 5pm by the time we were done here and we still had to get over to my friend Deanna's house for a visit.  I called her and told her we were on the way. 
At this point the plan was to meet them at 5ish but as luck would have it, a few miles down the road was a time zone change on the way to her house so we still had almost an hour to find it.
Good planning or just dumb luck?....You decide! lolz

So we overshot the turn off to her house(thanks to the schizophrenic GPS AND less than accurate MapQuest directions)but we eventually found it.


I have known Deanna and her Hubs Chester since 1998.
Deanna and I belong to a private email list of ex-Beanie collectors.  That's how/where we met, online.  This group had two actual meet-ups, one in Minnesota in 1999 and another in Missouri in 2000.

Deanna and Chester are from Southern California(well Deanna was born in the South and her military family moved around).

They moved in the last couple of years from Anaheim area to a multi acre mini farm in Podunk rural Kentucky.

And I do believe they are LOVING IT! ;-)
Here is a photo they posted last Christmas............

Why do I hear the theme from Green Acres in my head when I see this picture??

Picture of me and Deanna.....

Picture of me Hubs and Deanna

You'll notice in the background of the Xmas card photo of Chester and Deanna above there are some large hairy animals.....

They have two female alpacas, a mother and daughter.  This is the momma alpaca with their dog.

When we visited the daughter was pregnant and Deanna posted on FB recently that she had her baby(known as a cria in alpaca terms).

Deanna talking to her girls.....

And you see that nice big garden she has?

Yeah I am jealous.....

This places was a horse farm before they bought it.  There is a large horse barn and Deanna has her chickens in there.  What a great multitasking building. lolz

 Just some shots of their land both above the house and below is the "lower 40" with a pond.

So peaceful and tranquil here.....well if you can get down the shared road to the driveway past the vicious tiny dogs their neighbor has. lol

Quiet and beautiful....can I move in now Deanna?

Anyway after chatting, a glass a refreshing kombuca tea Deanna makes, and walking around the farm we went out for dinner in nearby Campbellsville KY at Yamato.
But first a stop at the nearby Holiday Inn Express to get a room for the night, then off for a very late dinner.  All we'd had was breakfast and shots of bourbon/whiskey all day.....some food sounded awesome to me about now! lolz

 

My Hibachi Chicken plate.
I was too busy shoving my dinner in my face to take any photos at the restaurant so I grabbed this shot off their website HERE.
Who would have thunk there'd be a Japanese Steakhouse in the middle of rural Kentucky? lolz

And thanks for treating us to dinner y'all!  We didn't expect that.

After we practically closed down the restaurant just gabbing forever, it was back to Deanna and Chester's house and after goodbye hugs we set off to the hotel for a good night's sleep.
But first I got a swim in at their pool even though it closed at 11pm the night front desk clerk let me in as we didn't roll into the lobby until 10:30pm(sssshhhh, don't tell).

Day 3 of the epic road trip of 2015 would be starting in a few short hours.....

Sluggy