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Stuff opens up!

So finally in Ohio stuff opens up!  Ronnie get called in to work to help clean, but finds out lunch is not opening up yet.  But the upstairs patio will be open and maybe he will get called to work those nights.  We are happy with that, he needs out of the house.  At some point the quarantine takes a mental toll. 
We finally go out to dinner for the first time- patio at Clifton Wine Bar.  As we are at dinner, Downtown is being burned, broken and destroyed.  We are getting text message from friends, we see the riot police fly down Clifton towards downtown, curfews are intituted downtown.  It is a bad day in Cleveland. 
 
Throughout the night, Ronnie gets notification and sees that the Red is destroyed.  Now this is one of the few times I will get political in this blog:

I do not get it.  Why destroy innocent people's lives because you are mad at the police.  These people have nothing to do with the situation.  Many of these businesses are owned by minorities, women, immigrants, and this is their whole life. Many businesses on East 4th have said they will not be able to reopen. 
This angers me!  My husband is now still out of a job and no one knows for how long.  But we are staying positive and continuing to support our local restaurants.
  
So since the Riots, we are trying even more to support local.  I go to the West Side Market and Lucky's as much as possible.  Summer Farm Share started so we are getting our fresh veggies etc.  Since some places opened, we are going to Eagle's Nest for our espresso and we just tried a new local ice cream place- Eclectic.  Let me just say it is very dangerour- it is litertally 2 blocks from our house.

When I bought this house, this is what I wanted places to go and place to walk in the neighborhood.  it is finally happening.  We want to support it and want these places to be successful. 
I encourage you to come to my neighborhood and have a coffe and an ice cream. We want to go to more places with patios and good food and that have always supported our organizations. 

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