This Christmas Is White
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Day 5: December 25, 2022 This Christmas Is White Comment via blog |
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These are the only places in Carthage I initially found open on Christmas
morning. Discount Smokes & Liquor seems to have all the important
stuff covered so maybe I could have scored a cup of coffee there but I got
mine at Pete's.
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I drove through Red Oak II twice and got out of my car once. That was
to take a picture of the white gas station and I didn't spend a whole lot
of time on it. All other photos were taken by rolling a window down and
back up as quickly as possible. This was definitely the whitest -- and
coldest -- that I've ever seen the village that Lowell Davis created.
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I paused on the drive back to town to snap pictures of two other Lowell
Davis creations. The first time I ever encountered the name Lowell Davis
was when I spotted "The Crapduster" on my second Route 66 run in
2003. I also spotted and photographed the Tire Changing Woman on that
trip.
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As I hurried to catch the end of yesterday's Bengals game, I had driven by
the Route 66 Drive-In without stopping. I now headed back there to get a
picture of all that white.
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I was surprised to find a third Carthage business open as I drove to the
drive-in. On my return, I stepped into the
Donut Palace and grabbed another cup of coffee along
with a banana nut muffin which I downed in my warm room.
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I knew there were casinos in the area and from the time I first considered
staying in Carthage over Christmas has sort of planned on dining at one of
them on Christmas. Casinos tend to operate with little regard to holidays.
I made some calls around noon and learned that the closest casino only had
a Christmas brunch which would end at 2:30. Other casinos had food
operations running much later but they were a few miles farther away. As
the day wore on, driving 30+ miles for dinner became lass and less
appealing. I ultimately decided to drive just ten miles to Joplin where I
knew there would be a Waffle House open and maybe a Buffalo Wild Wings. I
got lucky and was able to have boneless wings for
Christmas. I added Breckenridge Christmas Ale to make it truly festive.
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With the temperature about twenty degrees higher than yesterday (i.e.,
29F) I talked myself into checking out "Sparkle in the Park"
just down the street in Central Park. Pretty impressive.
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Today's background is the Blue Whale of Catoosa wearing a Santa Claus hat.
I found no new Christmas music that I felt like sharing so I'm sharing a forty-five year old Kinks performance. Yes, Virginia, there is a Ray Davies. |
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