We had no difficulty getting to Sandy’s Uncle Clayton’s place in Spring Hill, arriving around 2 in the afternoon. We would be spending the next two nights here. We visited for a couple of hours while waiting for Molly Constant to arrive. She was going to join us for dinner. Molly is Sandy’s first cousin once removed, the daughter of cousin Donna and Leo Constant whom we visited in Vermont earlier in this trip. Donna had asked us to bring her dad a couple of jars of home preserves (our grandma Myers’ pickled watermelon rinds and a jar of crab apple jelly). Fortunately she had also given us a couple of jars or Uncle Clayton might not have got his!Molly arrived around 4:30 and shortly thereafter we headed off to Carrabba’s Italian Grill. This is one of Molly and Clayton’s favorite restaurants and we can understand why. Service was excellent and it was Wednesday which meant that all bottles of wine were $10 off. Joe and Sandy shared a bottle of Merlot, Clayton had a margarita and Molly a Cosmopolitan (it was also happy hour!). Joe had Linguini with shrimp, scallops and clams. Sandy had a brick oven pizza – she was tempted by all the other dishes but hasn’t had pizza in so long, she couldn’t resist.
It was so good to visit with Molly, she is a delightful young woman, very mature. She is a nurse at a hospital in Tampa. She met her boy friend at the hospital, he is an EMT in the Emergency Room. We had heard some nice things about him, so we were disappointed to not be able to meet him. We were also happy to see that Molly and her grandfather are very close.
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