Today was my day out. I went to lunch with my friend, Susan, at Anita's. Such a nice lunch. I had a non alcoholic margarita, asked for lemonade and she asked it I wanted frozen. Sure I replied and she brought a mason jar of "lemonade". It tasted just like a margarita so maybe I got margarita mix. It was delicious. Must have had 800 calories, but worth it. I ate a Puffy Taco. I like those a lot.
After lunch I went over to the food truck plaza so I could sketch in the shade. I had a latte and sketched for about an hour. Then got some carnitas at El Fercho to take home for Gene. I asked what Fercho meant and the waitress said it was a nickname for the owner Fernando. Hmmm. They have pretty good food their. The carnitas was more like shredded pork like we put in tamales. Usually carnitas are fried pork. It was good. I will add some red New Mexico chile for the leftovers. Pep it up a little.
Sketched in the older Ohuhu Mix Media sketchbook with Ohuhu pens and watercolors. I put in the red letters with a Prismacolor pen when I got home.
I sketched toward the Moosebelly BBQ trailer (I wrote Mooseberry on the truck, guess I was thinking about the blueberries in their BBQ sauce.) and the Thai food trailer. Neither was open. Tuesday is probably a slow day. The latte trailer shut down shortly after I got mine. I guess they stay open only until lunch time. The stage with the bench is wired with electricity and has small speakers up. It is new to me. It is about 20 x 12 feet, my perspective is off. I added it after I did the trailers. It should have been in first. The back of the Moosebelly trailer is a screened in section and the think sticking out of the orange Thai truck is actually a blue pickup in the parking lot. There were more flowers but I had been sketching about 45 minutes and needed to leave so quickly added the color.
Gene had speech therapy and stayed with Pam, caregiver. He also rode his stationary bike today. Pretty busy, too.
Strange not to have a baseball game tonight. Longhorns have one more regular season series with Missouri on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. After that there will be the conference tournament. After that the Road to Omaha starts with Regionals, Super Regionals and the College World Series. We shall see how the Horns do. They have played well, only losing 12 of their 49 games. One game was rained out. Hook 'em Horns! You can get more info here https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/baseball/
6 comments:
That lemonade sounds pretty tasty.
— (not-so-anonymous) Joanna
I feel good every time I see you have been out. I'm glad you are able to take a break and that Gene seems to get along with the caregiver. I'm wishing I was there sampling the food and drinks with you. We were supposed to head to Texas yesterday for a birthday party this weekend, but ended up canceling because Jerry had a problem with a sore on his stump. He needs to keep the leg off until it heals completely. We were looking forward to a little excitement up in Itasca. lol At this point I never count on something happening until we are actually there.
Jo so glad to read that you had a fun day out with your friend. Those days are what make the harder days better. Wonderful sketch too. Take care - Hugs!
(not so anonymous) Joanna, the lemonade was great. I can live without my margaritas with that good of substitute. The one we tried here, not so good.
Joan, thank you. Oh so sorry you didn't make it down here. Hope Jerry is feeling better. It is definitely hard to plan these days.
Debbie, thank you. Visiting with you all here makes my days better, too!. Hugs, back...
I love the happiness of your sketch Jo! The color adds a lot.
Thank you so much.
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