A laid-back Fourth

We’re having a low key Fourth of July.

I started the day with a brisk mile on the treadmill (see above for the view from the treadmill in the garage).

Then it was off to Tim Balough’s favorite restaurant, Cracker Barrel, for breakfast. Despite a full parking lot, we were seated in about 10  minutes, our server Eboni was friendly and efficient and the food – I had the Double Meat breakfast with three eggs over medium, with whole wheat toast and coffee – was splendid.

We got a call from friend Lauri in Indiana reporting on a book a former coworker has written about his perceptions of how the paper where Maria used to work was mismanaged. It contains nothing inflammatory about Maria or Lauri, to everyone’s relief.

Maria needed some thread and a pattern from Hancock Fabrics. She gave me some blogging time at Books-A-Million as payment for me enduring Hancock’s.