The weather has been tough on the elderly and smart the last few days but today started sunny with almost reasonable temperatures and humidity below 50%. We took a drive into nearby Lexington to hit the post office so we could get our kids’ birthday presents to them only a few days late. We accessed the Gas Buddy app on our phone and found it was completely inaccurate about the price of diesel but we bought it at the wrong price anyway because it was too late to go on a town-wide accuracy check of a free app.
However, the best thing we did was give ourselves a reward by going to the Lexington Barbecue. It is a small but busy joint. It was here we found that North Carolina has two forms of barbecue and this place serves the wrong type. The meat was quite tender and the fries and hush puppies were very tasty but the barbecue type around here has BBQ sauce that is thin, runny stuff with lots of vinegar in it. We prefer the more robust, tomato-based sauces we so eagerly devoured as we crossed Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to the watery acetic acid stuff here. If you like the skinny stuff they serve around here, the prices were good and service was great. It was about $30 for two, including drinks.