AN IRISH PUB, A REALLY NAUGHTY BEAR, AND THE CONSTITUTION AS WELL

SKIES WERE AWESOME ALL DAY SUNDAY

A WEE BIT OF THE AULD SOD

GUINNESS  AND WOODCHUCK CIDER ON TAP

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIEND

KIDS PLAYING IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNTAIN

Monday, 8:00 AM.  71 degrees F, wind WNW, calm to very light.  The sky is mostly overcast with high, thin gray clouds and the humidity is 94%.  The barometer predicts rain, of which we had a brief shower last night that left everything wet this morning
    We went to Washburn yesterday to see the annual car show and were disappointed that it was on Saturday only.  The disappointment quickly turned to glee when we decided to stop in for lunch in a new Washburn establishment, The Snug, an Irish wannabe pub with Guinness and Woodchuck Hard Cider, along with local brews, on tap.  The sandwiches were very good, accompanied by truly great homemade potato chips, thick cut and well anointed with vinegar and salt.  I had a Woodchuck, Joan a Guinness…total bill $20.  We’ll stop again, and next time I’ll have a Guinness and toast my  many Irish friends, most of  whom have either gone to their reward, or have imbibed their lifetime limit of the frothy stout.
    Washburn is a real homey town, as evidenced by the inline skater being towed by his dog, and the kids playing in the police department fountain.
    About five o’clock yesterday afternoon we heard police sirens down the street at the Seagull Bay Motel Annex.  Turns out the cops were escorting a really naughty bear out of town.  He had broken  through the office screen door to raid a cookie jar filled with candy bars.  A good reminder to close the patio doors at night.
    The UN mandate on small arms control, which appeared to myself and many others to be no more than a ploy by the world’s dictators to emasculate any opposition, and which was a real threat to our own Second Amendment rights, did not pass because of US reluctance, led by bipartisan congressional opposition.  Gee, President Obama, Americans really do cling to their guns and bibles, don’t they?  And their Constitution as well.