Today started out with rain off and on, but the weather started to clear up later in the afternoon, so Ricky and I decided that we would go get Ricky’s new Harley because it looked like there was going to be a break in the rain.
We drove Ricky’s truck over to Pittsfield and the weather still looked good. We picked up his motorcycle and Ricky rode it home while I followed him in his truck. Ricky was a little hesitant at first, but once he got comfortable with it he was a lot better.
Ricky riding home on his new Harley
We were supposed to got out later to Tina’s (Keith’s girlfriend) bar. We thought about riding our motorcycles there, but after looking at the weather, we decided not to ride our motorcycles, but drive cars instead.
Ricky’s new Harley
We met Keith at back at his house and drove up with him to J.J. Rafferty’s. One of Keith’s friends, Joe DiGiorgio, met us there also. There weren’t many people there yet but Keith and Tina said it would get busier. It never did. All the bartenders said this was the slowest they had seen the bar in as long as they could remember.
Joe DiGiorgio and Keith
We stayed there for a little while after Tina got off work. She wanted to go watch one of the other bartenders who sings in a band. She was playing at another bar up in Saratoga Springs at the casino.
We got up there and found the bar. The band was pretty good, but the crowd was a bit older. Let’s just say that this was the first time that I have felt “young” in a bar in I don’t know how long. I think the average age in the bar was about 60. We only stayed there about an hour and then we decided to go to the J.T. Maxie’s, the other bar that Tina works at for a little while.
We got to Maxie’s and the crowd had thinned out. Tina and Ricky decided to get a snack and we went home after they finished. It was a fun night.
