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The Ice Cream Shop
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And Sunday, after another scorcher, and I wait until the sun's gone down to walk up the Gelato shop.
It's the best shop in town, maybe 25 flavours, the kind that's rolled out on a frozen marble slab, absolutely delicious. I have a single, $8.00, reasonable, and I regret it. I should have had a double. A triple even. Do they do triples?
But tonight, getting close, there's a throng of people in the courtyard, a lineup, maybe 20 people deep, inside the shop.
People have caught on. For Ice Cream in town there's DQ - the other end of town, and there's the candy store on Baker - generic ice cream scooped from a tub, and there's another place around the corner, still open, same, generic ice cream from a tub.
I go to the place around the corner, it's empty, and I wonder if the 2 girls working know about the place around the corner? I mean, it's possible they don't if they're always here. And I can't be disappointed, I knew what I was getting, the price is the same but the quality, well, it doesn't even come close to comparing.
Manhunt
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The upstairs neighbour, she's been on a bit of a Manhunt. She's embraced her drinking, and wanders the street looking for people to talk to, share a drink with, hang out.
Which has resulted in some improbably house guests.
Her latest, some long-haired thin legged older hippy type, and so I ask in that open-ended sort of way ..."Soooooo", hoping for an explanation, but she just changes topics, "a friend..." and waves her hands and it off.
I'm working my share of doubles this week, more than I'd like, but you gotta love the circus when you get home.
Ferraro Foods
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Merely high praise for a grocery store out of Trail and Rossland. Fine specialty Italian foods, pastas, ethnic specialties, general fruit and vegetables, meats, sausages, etc, stopped in on a failed thrift tour of Rossland and was once again amazed at how much better the store is than anything we have in Nelson, the breadth of variety, economy, and quality.
Real Pasta. And for the same price as the Sh*t you buy around town here.
We need one in Nelson. Bad. Until then the once-a-month tour to Trail.
Chrystyna Bykowa
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One of the local artists on display on the gallery opening:
Link: https://www.bykowa.com/
Funny, I passed her on the way out of the gallery, excusing myself that I didn't need to hear the artists spiels; she lives in the building and I didn't know she was an artist or showing or I might have stayed.
Amusing, in that when I see her on the street, or run into her in the common areas of the building she always looks very serious, at odds with what she's creating..."Book by it's cover" and all that....
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