Guns in Bars and GOOD cheese in Easton

I hadn't thought to buy the Columbus Dispatch before but the above headline made it impossible not to part with $1. Apparently here in Columbus you were already allowed to carry a concealed weapon if you have the appropriate license. This new law means that you could now carry your weapon into a bar. The one caveat... You can't drink alcohol. That's OK then, as long as when you take your gun into the bar and ask for a beer you tell the bartender that you have a concealed weapon and so you can't have a beer. Hmmm.

After the usual Saturday morning (Everton and Bath City both losing) our friend Molly, who had a car for the weekend took us off to the much talked about Easton. My favorite description prior to our visit was; "it's like a Disneyland for adults". It was. Les Wexner a local billionaire ($3.2 if you're interested) along with help from Arnold Schwarzenegger and some other friends had developed the area into a town centre made to look like a "Classic American Main Street". There were fountains and an excellent old school style trolly bus to help you between the different bits of the "town". It probably looks a lot like regular town centers used to before the idea of an out of town mall with loads of free parking came about and everyone headed out of main street to the mall.

The chance to do some food shopping with a car to take home some heavy stuff was good and we tried another new (to me) store. Trader Joes was pretty great, there were plenty of free samples and lots of stuff seemed cheaper than the places we had shopped so far. Of course whenever we try a different store we need to give the cheese fridge a good going over. It didn't take long to find the English Cheddar. This time though it actually was English, from the Dorset coast apparently. The signs were good, some salt residue at the ends and a good looking color and shape. What about the price? Well, for some reason it was a few dollars cheaper than the stuff from Vermont. I cracked it open when we got home and we weren't disappointed. It was tangy, creamy and crumbly. I now have my supplier.