Coming to You LIVE ... Okay Buzzed

Yeha!! Finally got into this account. Curse you Google!! I swear it is getting as bad as Microsoft snapping up all the apps I am accustomed to using and forcing me to Google-ize them. Yikes!!

Presently I am at my usual "watering hole" for Mondays: The Met. You see on Mondays this wonderful gentleman behind the bar comes up with a theme and creates a martini "flight" (three versions) to tempt the senses. Let me tell ya, after a "Monday from hell" (fess up we all have them) this is THE place to be - good food, great conversation (especially with the retired gentleman who can quote every Shakespeare sonnet and then some) at the bar. 

Tonight I have had the amazing bread and herbed butter - should have had more food but what the hey. The theme tonight is "When Life Gives You Lemons" a flight of three lemonade inspired martinis. I didn't go for the whole flight - I do have to drive home after all - but tried the basil lemonade. Wow. Just wow.

I am sad to see Pears Avenue in the adjacent space close and move out to Elida (they are going all online and Etsy rather than storefront and I do wish them well) BUT in actuality it IS nice to have an overflow space wherein The Met can showcase live music in a reading-roomesque atmosphere.

It is so lovely to have multiple food choices in the downtown area now. The Met, Old City Prime, The Fat Cat Diner, Vivace, Fresh! Whatever your taste buds enjoy you can now find it in Downtown Lima Ohio. And yet there are those who continue to say "there's nothing to do here" and "we don't have good place to eat". Go figure. Well I am here to tell you there is PLENTY going on in Lima and the downtown is coming back.

Next month we have Motown in the Downtown. Fabulous music in an amazing venue for a mere $10 for balcony seating or buy a table. Sadly I do not have a link to share but seriously it is a wonderful event supporting the Council for the Arts of Greater Lima.

Yes I am slightly "happy" or "pretty" as a friend puts it as I type this but I do feel strongly about this town. I was not born here. I was not raised here. I moved here just after Christmas in 1993. After my husband died in 1995 I chose to stay. Why? Why stay in small city West Central Ohio? Because the people here are wonderful. Because there are so many arts opportunities to be found and enjoyed. Because - and this is critical - I LIKE IT HERE. Yes there are lots of things to do. Nary a weekend goes by when I have to choose between several fabulous things to do ALL YEAR LONG. Yes I do live in the "artsy" and "liberal elitist" end of town. But the stuff there is to do is open to everyone.

So buzzed - or not - this is MY town and there is a LOT to experience if you are willing to get off the porch and do so. There's food, there's live music, there are numerous wonderful parks and fabulous things going on in the city schools. You can find all this too in your backyard no matter where you live.

You don't have to be buzzed or live blog your stream of consciousness ramblings to find wonderful experiences waiting for you just around that corner, just down the street. Get off the porch, go find them! And if you are in Lima... I'll meet YOU at The Met on Mondays after work. Phil will whip us up something fabulous.

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