One of the minor casualties of the pandemic has been the casual, spur-of-the-moment lunch invitation. Now you have to take into account which restaurants are open, what their hours are and whether you need reservations.
A dear friend and I overcame these hurdles and met for lunch on the patio at Loch Nairn Golf Club on McCue Road. We hadn't seen each other for weeks, so there was a lot of catching up to do. It doesn't help that our conversational style is amorphous rather than linear -- just the mention of a person's name in an anecdote can spin us off on a completely different tangent, from health to politics to pets to the washing away of driveways.
So we ate our lunch, split a dessert (delicious apple pie a la mode!), and lingered over our coffee until we realized that the golfers we'd seen unloading their gear in the parking lot had finished their round and were returning, hot and sweaty and ready for a drink. Time to head home!
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