26 July 2020

Cooling down

After the long bike rides to and fro in 90+ deg F temperatures, with the safety jackets on (which makes it fairly warm inside), came back home to find Nikita and Sharmila cooling it off in the pool.

Soon I joined and then got the dog in too after some time!!!

12 July 2020

She is just a great company!

This was last Sunday. Nikita and I went out on one our favorite things to do together these days – driving! She is the latest driver in the house and we often go for very long drives. We drove around for about an hour and a half thru rural roads and state highways. Eventually, we were within a mile of our house when I asked her to pull over at Union – a great restaurant in the middle of forests – literally walking distance from our house.

We sat at the bar outside, away from other people to social distance and I grabbed a gin and tonic and she got an iced tea and we chatted for another forty five minutes there!!

Looking forward to another such drive this weekend.

11 July 2020

Different lake this Friday

Sharmila and I went to Lake Allatoona this week. Had a couple of drinks art Sunset Grille. It was a little warm initially but cooled down as the sun dipped down. There was some great live country music (which I do not understand but sometimes find the tunes catchy) and a couple of great motorbikes come by!

8 July 2020

Alls well that ends well

Last evening, Sharmila and I headed out to have a drink by the lake. We thought we would try out Allatoona Lake for a change. Half way thru the drive, I was checking the GPS to make sure I was headed the right way when I realized that the restaurant by the lake was closed on Tuesdays.

We were within 10 minutes of Woodstock downtown and there is a bar there I have wanted to try out for quite some time. We were soon there. It is a bar (Rootstock and Vine) on the rooftop overlooking the main intersection of Woodstock downtown. It was great weather – cloudy, cool and breezy. There was enough social distancing and masks around. I would wear it only when I had to talk to Nicole and Abby who were serving us. It would have been disastrous if I tried drinking wine while having the mask on, needless to say.

The picture does not do a good job of capturing the beauty of sitting out in open air on a rooftop overlooking cars and passersby below while sipping some Pinot Noir.