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| CASINO ENTRANCE |
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| TRIBAL FLAG...PART OF CULTURAL EXHIBIT |
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| GAMBLING FLOOR |
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| PLANTING HEDGES |
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| LANDSCAPE IS COMING TOGETHER NICELY |
Saturday, 6:45 AM. 40 degrees, wind ENE, calm. The sky is overcast with high, gray clouds except for a band of clear, orange-pink sky sky on the eastern horizon. The barometer predicts partly cloudy skies.
Thursday evening neither of us wanting to cook, so we tried out the restaurant at the new casino at Red Cliff. I do not pretend nor intend to be a food critic, but here’s my impression: the dining room has good aesthetics and great views, the food was reasonably priced and portions ample. The chicken we both ordered was good but the vegetables undone. The wait staff was friendly but untrained and there didn’t seem to be any supervision. We will give the operation a while to get organized before we go back again.
Neither Joan nor I care for casinos or gambling, and can’t stand the smoke or the noise, so I can’t comment on that aspect except to say everything seems well designed and constructed. As I have said before, we wish the tribe well in its new venue, it has the potential to enhance the economy of the entire Chequamegon Bay region, and failure would be an economic downer for us all.
The rain finally stopped and we finished the landscape planting on 1st Street. There will be more planting in the future but it is all beginning to look coherent. A hint on designing a hedge on a slope so that it is level across the top: select trees or shrubs (here, American dark green arborvitae,
Thuja occidentallis ‘nigra’) that are successively larger from the top of the slope on down to the bottom.
Friends Andy and Judy are back from their 50th Peace Corps reunion in Washington, D.C. They had a great time with friends from their Brazillian experience, but said Washington was filled with conventioneers and tourists, difficult to get around, the mall wall to wall people. All good things.
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