Finally we find a moment to go over to Western Avenue for an authentic Rainbow Cone, complete with orange sherbet, pistachio, Palmer House (Venetian vanilla with cherries & walnuts), strawberry and chocolate. NYDQ! That is: “Not your Dairy Queen”.
Rainbow Cone!!!
We also stop at S&T Provisions down on 111th for a jar of their hot giardinera. Rozzie always brought a jar or two when he came to winter with us, and that’s what originally got George started as a devoted flannel-mouth. He’s looking forward to growing Habanero peppers again when we get back home. And it seems that an even hotter pepper has recently been developed, the Ghost Pepper, Tom Starr showed us the plants he was growing at their Clear Lake house…there are always new frontiers!
Nancy comes to say goodbye over lunch of Italian Beef sandwiches, knocking another Chicago specialty off our bucket list. We’ll really need a day of grains and greens pretty soon.
Before we bid goodbye to Evergreen Park and all our family and friends, Lynn brings out a pair of sock bunnies that Jan had made for baby Lynn and baby Richard (a few years ago). And John demonstrates his wicked double-whammy fly killer – “Foolproof”, he assures us.
Lynn with Sock Bunnies..........................................& "The Fly Murderer"
Rare moment of relaxation for Lynn..................................with her Clematis.