At the farm-themed Machine Shed Restaurant,
Last night we again enjoyed the famous Baked Potato Soup at the Machine Shed with old friends Quin and Laura Brien. That's Laura of http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/thanks-to-srn-reader-laura-brien-for.html
This outing has become a habit, largely for the potato soup, thick and creamy with chives, cheese and bacon. As to bacon, Quin has become quite friendly with the huge swine in front, this time calming the beast sufficiently to pose for a still, if uncooperative, snapshot.
We met the Briens in 1981 when we joined Friedens United Church of Christ at 13th and Juneau, Milwaukee. Quin was then president of the church council, and Dee came from Maryland to be the Friedens Parish Worker overseeing the community garden, food pantry and neighborhood outreach.
Even then, agriculture played a role in our lives together. Quin was a long-time employee with A.O. Smith, manufacturers of the popular blue and white silos. These silos were Quin's bread and butter. Once shortly after Dee got here we were riding together in the country with the Briens.
Dee was surveying the passing scene. She shook her head somewhat disapprovingly and said, "WHAT'S WITH ALL THESE UGLY BLUE SILOS? Hearts were won just with the brief exchange that followed, which I don't remember.
Quin doesn't have anything if not twinkling eyes, which he cannot suppress. And Laura is in prideless possession of, among other attributes, a great chin.
Quin pours water from a pitcher at the Machine Shed just ahead of our placing our orders for their Potato Soup, of course.
Laura gestures at her throat, unintentionally drawing attention to her dynamite chin. She says she got it from her dad. People coming and going past our booth constantly and sometimes blushingly marveled at the chin, and Quin's twinkling eyes.
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