Sheila and I celebrated out 56th wedding anniversary this week. While in the past we have done far more adventurous things, lately we are becoming more and more content to just stick around home and enjoy the little things around us.
The weekend began with Sheila getting flowers and a card with her morning yogurt and coffee. That's kind of a ritual with me. While we both say we aren't going to do anything this year we always do.
That evening we had dinner at Tokyo Garden on South Memorial thanks to one of Sheila's vendors. The place did not have the kind of traffic you would have expected for a weekend evening. Sheila keeps an eye on that neighborhood since in her spare time she's the property manager for a big shopping center nearby.
The staff were all dressed up in their Halloween costumes and the crowd we shared our serving position with, a birthday party, were pleasant enough. It was overall a pleasant little evening.
Sheila and I have a weekend ritual. Most Saturdays about mid morning we fuel up her car, wash it and clean the interior, eat a cheap lunch someplace and then do any shopping I haven't take care of during the week.
One of our favorite lunch places is Moreno's Supermercado at 81st and Aspen in BA. Their in house restaurant serves real Mexican food at very good prices. For example, you can get three big tacos meat of your choice, rice, beans and a soft drink of your choice for under ten bucks. But, it helps a lot to speak some Spanish. This day, the girl working the register at the cafe either spoke no English or was giving we gringos the business by claiming "no habla." Luckily, Sheila and I have enough Spanish to order a meal. The food was simple and good.
The Mexican Dia del Muerte holidays follow Halloween. There are actually two feast days. Nov. 1 honors the souls of deceased children while Nov. 2 honors the souls of all the deceased. The celebration was in full swing at Moreno's. These lovely young ladies were dispensing charm and candy to the children at the door.
I made sure Sheila had her Kindle with her since I knew the next errand was going to take some time. Some very generous friends gave me a nice little gift card to Scheels sporting goods. I had never been to Scheels before. It was like Tim Allen's "Outdoor Man" store had mated with the Texas State Fair. The place was big, bright, very crowded and had everything from a Ferris Wheel to a shooting gallery.
For some time, I had been wanting to try a red dot optic on a handgun but simply could not bring myself to let some local gunsmith begin milling and drilling on the slide of one my pristine Glocks. And at any rate, I didn't care for the high sight mounting many optics require making your weapon far less elegant and concealable or the fact that the batteries can run down.
Ruger appears to solved this problem. Their little Max 9 subcompact 9mm seems to check all of the boxes. It is a small but relatively high capacity pistol and comes from the factory machined to accept a small, low but very usable little red dot optic. The kicker for me in this decision is that this optic, like the optics on my AR-15s perfectly co-witnesses the iron sights so that you can choose which to use depending on the situation or if the batteries are down. A bonus for the Ruger was that this is a passive optic that requires no batteries or recharging. It collects and uses available light through a passive optical collector.
Scheels had a good price on the actual weapon but did not stock the Ruger optic. I ordered the optic from Amazon. The process of purchasing the weapon at Scheels was more or less pain free, it just took a while as all weapons purchases do. Sheila, sat patiently in the car enjoying her book.
Overall it was a pleasant little weekend, just being together, doing a few things and enjoying each other's company. That's adventure enough at our age.
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