Imagine my surprise to wake up and see a dusting of snow on the ground. I had not heard any predictions of that. But, a dusting is just what it is. The temperature is 28 and is only going up to 34 today so it is going to just be a cold cloudy day. That’s fine with me. I have no plans to be outdoors at all. 

How was your weekend, or I guess I should Sunday, since I did talk to you on Saturday. Our Sunday was typical. I did two church services and then we had the St. Paul’s winter meeting. It was quite routine. After the meeting Ms. Kate and I went out for lunch. I was hungry for a nice steak or some Prime Rib. We’ve had good luck at Outback Steakhouse before so we decided to go there. It was not a great experience yesterday at all. We got seated soon enough and sat at a low table in the bar area. We got “waited on” fairly quickly but the two waitresses couldn’t seem to figure out “who’s table” we were sitting at. One of them brought us our little loaf of bread and butter and brought us our drinks fairly quickly. (The coffee was good). Then things just seemed to fall apart. Eventually she came and took our order and asked if we wanted more bread and drinks. We said yes. A bit later she brought us some more bread and brought Ms. Kate some more lemonade, but didn’t bring any more coffee. Then we waited, and waited, and waited. Finally they brought us our salads. We both had ordered the same meal pretty well. I asked for Prime Rib with baked potato and salad; Ms. Kate asked for Prime Rib, sweet potato and salad. We both ordered them “medium” expecting them to be juicy with a nice pink center. Well, —- we waited and we waited and we waited once again and finally they brought us our food. I looked at that “Prime Rib” and it was obviously cooked to “Well”. It was even charred on the outside. I asked the waitress; “Is this supposed to be a prime Rib?. She said yes, they had put it on the grill because we had asked for them to be medium. She asked if we wanted our meat re-done. By now we had already been there an hour so we said no. We ate our potatoes, and took our meat home. I guess we might cut it up and use it for soup meat. They did give us 20% off of our bill, but that didn’t fill the stomach. So, that was our lunch. We will of course go back because that was a single bad experience. I don’t think whoever cooked our meat had ever fixed a prime rib before. It’s really a shame too because it was a nice piece of meat before they ruined it. MIne was worse than Kate’s but her’s had not faired any better by much. 

So that’s my grump of the day. Thanks for listening. Have a wonderful day. Try to stay warm and if you have to go out, drive carefully. Peace.