There was some enthusiasm about a Lawrenceville run, so we'll start at 36th and Butler and go from there. That's at the Espresso a Mano cafe, which is a favorite, but interest was also expressed in having breakfast at Barb's Country Kitchen (nearer to 47th St.) However, people may not have time, so we can decide on the run. We can see what's new on the river trail (apparently a dog park?), and what hip new storefronts have opened. Also the Allegheny Cemetery awaits. Many possibilities!
Last week we explored the South Side flats - basically we ran from the Goodwill to the Salvation Army and back (checking out the potential cashmere haul) and visited the Thinnest Building in Pittsburgh, the Terminal Shops (kind of an unfortunate name), the Heritage Trail, and then settled down into the coziness of Big Dog Coffee, which did have the promised fireplace, plus an actual large dog upstairs. You can tell what most of us are doing evenings by the fact that endorsements fell heavily into the Watched on TV category:
- The Great British Baking Show (many thumbs up)
- Mozart in the Jungle
- The Americans
- Fargo
- Black Mirror - esp. episode with John Hamm
- Master of None
- The Bachelor?
- Movies: Inescapable and Meet the Patels
Also (not sure what this indicates)
- The Aviary
- Bell bottoms, culottes and gauchos
- Locksmiths - Ace Locksmith, and also the Squirrel Hill Locksmith which also repairs appliances.
Finally the great suggestion that, after we learned that PCTV has many slots available, our running group could have a show of our own, modeled on The View. We could call it The Schmooze.
Last Sunday we headed out toward Schenley Park and CMU - where students were taking some unusual vehicles for a spin - first a real drone (they promised it had no weapons) and then a slew of buggies all around Flagstaff Hill. Weren't the first driverless cars seen right here, years ago, scaring the pants off of onlookers? Running seemed positively medieval.
Coffee was lively and totally fun as usual. After we expressed our outrage over the idiocy of retractable leashes in the parks, and puzzled over a weird set of buzzing wired-up pots on the windowsill (HTG evidently stands for High Tech Gardening - who knew?), we endorsed:
