It is a highlight of the weekend at the farm, a visit to the Alley Cat for ice-cream. The place is a shack at the corner of The Road Kill Cafe. It has a deck in front and chairs and tables under cover while you eat. I think it is the best ice cream in the world. Certainly it is the cheapest. At least once every weekend we get ice cream there because we really must support her.
Cathy owns and runs the place, all by herself. She stays open from mid May to mid October. She and Al lived together just above the Lebanon church which is close to Gary's place, so Al and Cathy built the little shack together and named it the Alley Cat after Al and Cathy. Soon they separated but Cathy owns it and runs it and is a valuable asset to the community. We always meet friends doing the same thing as us and in fact Cathy tells us who has been that day. I know without being told by Gary that they had ice cream both yesterday and today!!
I would love to see her cash flow. Cathy is very pretty or at least she was very pretty when she was young. She has a daughter who is almost thirty, so Cathy is not really young, but she keeps herself very well. She is married to Barry, a long time friend of Alan. When they married two years ago, Cathy wanted to go to Nova Scotia for their honeymoon, but Barry said no. Instead they went to Virginia Beach.
I think Cathy was very ambitious, but married and had children prior to obtaining any education. She still dreams about travelling to Nova Scotia or San Francisco. Instead she serves ice cream in Artemas, in the shack beside The Road Kill Cafe. She is sweet to everyone and enthusiastic too. But she always asks longingly about our travel, where we went and what we saw. I am more than happy to oblige and eat her ice cream.
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