Food...again.

. On the weekend the Colonel took me out to lunch. We went to a place called Capones.

Capones-Cd'A

It's a kind of bar/restaurant with a sports theme. It was not exactly Bern's--my favourite restaurant in Florida--and a pricey one! For my Melbourne friends, it was not quite like Florentino either.

Grossi-Florentino--Melbourne.

Sometimes these gritty little places turn out to be pretty good and Capones didn't let me down. We had seen it featured on a TV show called Diners Drive-in's and Dives. The guy who hosts the show is an absolute Mario, or as they call them here, a Guido. He totally annoys me with his over use of the same phrases. Everything is "money," "Killer," "Winner winner chicken dinner," or "Take a trip to flavour town," Ho hum. Those kind of things are fun when you hear them once or twice but not every show. So when the host went to Capones we payed attention as it was one of the few places in Idaho ever to have rated a mention. The food there was pretty good. I had the Philly Cheese Steak and garlic fries. Before I moved to the states I had no idea what a Philly Cheese Steak was, but now I am hooked. Nom Nom! We also came home with a dog. We have our lovely two already but saw a listing in the local paper from a shelter in Coeur d'Alene for a lovely little Beagle. It turned out that someone else wanted her so we let it go. There are plenty of dogs needing a home, why fight over one. Having already started down that path though, the shelter suggested another little one in need of a home. He is a bit of a plain looker, some might say ugly. Sad but true.

Wonton

He had been given up for adoption twice, and had been in care since August of last year. My heart broke hearing this. They think he has not been adopted because he has an underbite and looks a bit like Chewbacca the Wookie.

It's hard enough for a dog to get adopted when there are so many needing home, let alone an ugly one. We met him and he seemed sweet and good-natured so we adopted him. The hour and a half ride home was interesting. He climbed over the console onto my lap and sat there the whole time. He is a heavy thing, my arm went to sleep. Then we stopped at the store to pick up our mail and bought him to meet the owners dog. That dog was not there and our new boy disgraced himself by peeing on the greeting card stand. How embarrassing! I am so glad we got him. He is a wonderful little dog. My two were difficult at first, there was lots of growling and there still is if he encroaches on their space when they are getting attention. I am doing my best to give them all equal attention but it does get hard when three dogs want me to pet them at the same time and I only have 2 hands. His name was Scooter but I really hated it. We think he looks like a Chinese Fu Dog, in particular one I saw when I was visiting Xian, China so we gave him a Chinese name: Wonton.

It's cute and he even answers to it already. What a smart lad. I really want a pure bred German Shepherd, and I hope to find one someday, but I just don't want to buy from breeders. Not when there are so many unhappy dogs languishing in shelters or on the streets. Dogs are so loving and faithful, they are the best thing in the world. I love my dogs!

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