It's always a good evening when your youngest child comes upstairs from a shopping trip and declares "PAL'S PICNIC."

Pal's is the beloved fast-food restaurant chain of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. They employ people very seriously and they're actually a national model of food-service efficiency. You need to eat Pal's when you come visit.

Specifically, pick up the drive-through and come to our back porch. https://mastodon.social/media/jFQCC5n0bzwcqw_tg6o

@ShorterPearson what a great back porch and garden, and cookie baking-family member.

I love those impromptu moments.

Here it's more likely to be an ice cream from Dave the Ice Cream Man. :)