There are few things I enjoy better than a nice lunch with Pam the Liberal! We ate at V. Richards (I had the open-face reuben--nice, warm roast beast with cheese and sauce and kraut, and Pam had some kind of combination vegetable plate), but as always, the fun was the conversation rather than the food. Topics today tended more toward dealing with teenagers. She has two boys, one two years past college, the other graduating in a couple of weeks, so she has some war stories to tell. Makes me feel not quite crazy to hear them, and of course there is that oddly perverted sense of pride that no matter what stories she has, I have some that impress her.
We also talked about work stuff--although she's moved on, we still know the same movers and shakers around here. Not that the movers and shakers are any big deal, this being The World's Largest Small Town, after all, but it's still nice to gossip about their failings while studiously ignoring our own.
Found out it's been longer than I remembered--she'd been in and out of the hospital, her husband has gone into business for himself, and they bought a new Mazda3 four-door, which was quite nifty. If we ever replace the Focus, I think I'd like one of these.
It was over much too soon--although just at the right time, too. We're having a thunderstorm of Hollywood special effects production values right now, but luckily, she dropped me back off just in time to hit the door as the rain began to fall.
Good conversation + roast beef + rain = a very sleepy possum.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 19, 2006 01:58 PMRain?
Posted by: Janis at July 19, 2006 02:11 PMAnd not only that, my in-laws got a good rain shower yesterday. But don't feel too bad--we didn't get a drop, even though we're not even a half-mile away.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at July 19, 2006 02:24 PMYeah, we have had a good rain downtown, but don't know how far it extended. The National Weather Service said:
At 218 PM CDT National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated very heavy rain over the Birmingham Metro area including parts of
Homewood... Pelham... Oak Mountain... and Tarrant. Several slow moving thunderstorms have dumped an estimated 1 to 2 inches across this
area. An additional one inch is possible through 415 PM.
I am hoping this helped a LOT of folks in several counties, and have heard it may have been raining in Shelby County as well as Jefferson.
Posted by: Stan at July 19, 2006 02:35 PMThe frustrating thing for so many is that these sort pop up like popcorn--small, intense, widely (or wildly) scattered, downpours. We could use a couple good, soft, all-day, rains.
GOOD GRIEF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!? If we had that, the yard would start growing again and I'd have to get out there and cut it!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at July 19, 2006 02:45 PMNoooooo!
Posted by: Sarah G. at July 19, 2006 05:11 PM