Monthly Archives: November 2010
Landon and the Gators . . .
Our day started early, and with two problems. Brandi called to let us know Landon was not feeling well and she was taking him to the doctor. She wondered if Jan could babysit today so Landon wouldn’t have to go to daycare.
And, of course, Jan said ‘Sure!” More Landon time.
But the second problem was that despite her eagerness to Landon-sit, Jan was in the second day of her usual 3 day migraine sequence. But she took another Imitrex which helped a lot and we were on our way to Brandi’s by about 10:15 am.
The doctor said Landon just had a slight head cold and would be fine. She told Brandi to just stop and get some Triaminicin for him.
I got this picture of him after we got there.
One thing we’ve found out about Landon since he’s been in daycare the last two weeks, is that apparently he’s crazy about cows.
They actually start showing babies Landon’s age (3 months) flash cards with large pictures of animals, and telling them the names. They have about 20 different animal cards, and when the girl would show Landon a cow, he would start laughing and giggling. But only for the cow.
She thought maybe she was imagining it so she got another girl to try it, and Landon did exactly the same thing.
Strange!
While Jan was Landon-sitting, I visited a couple of clients, and then on the way back to Brandi’s I stopped off and picked up the Honeybaked Ham we’ll take up to Shawna’s for Thanksgiving. While I was out and about, our friend Gina called to check in. She was in town for her sister’s memorial service and wanted to get directions to a favorite restaurant of ours, Floyd’s Cajun Seafood.
I also stopped off at Sam’s Club to picked up some more Imitrex for Jan, and a couple of pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving too.
After Lowell got home, Jan and I headed over to Jason’s Deli for supper. She had her favorite Turkey Muffaletta and I had a bowl of their great Southwestern Chicken Chili.
We got home a little after 5 pm and were drinking coffee and relaxing when Nick Russell called to say Hi, and see how Jan was feeling. Nick’s Terry and my Jan have both been under the weather, and we know we both tend to wander off and get in trouble if our better halves aren’t keeping us in check. So hopefully they’ll both be feeling better soon.
That’s about it for today.
Thought you might want to check out our visit to an alligator farm in Florida in May of 2009.
Breakfast Buffet & A Lot of Gators…
Posted on May 31, 2009
Today we headed out about 9:30 am to have the breakfast buffet at Whistle Junction where we had lunch with Carol and Joe on Friday.
Then it was off to Jungle Adventures Nature Park, about 15 miles west of Titusville, on the way to Orlando.
Although we haven’t been here since 1997, we looked forward to going back.
Jungle Adventures Nature Park
A Sweet Mouthful !!
They have a lot of animals here – Florida panthers, deer, coatamundis, lemurs, bears, spiders, lizards, scorpions, turtles, tortoises, and of course, hundreds of alligators, crocodiles, and caymans.
Is It Dinner Time Yet?
Just a Big Putty Tat!
The trainer said he had raised this panther since he was about 3 weeks old. The cat came up and started rubbing his head all over the trainer, marking him as his property.
Duckweed-covered Gator
Feeding Time
Feeding Time Too
They sell you hotdogs to feed the baby gators. I just want to be sure they can tell the difference between the hot dogs and fingers.
Hot Dogs or Fingers!
Jan makes a new friend.
Jan Makes a New Friend!
It’s hard to say who’s scaring who here.
Who’s scaring who here?
Jan wouldn’t hold this one!
A Real Handful!
We headed back to the coach about 2:30 pm after a great time.
A complete change of subject here. Jan and I are big Ice Road Truckers fan. That’s the show on the History Channel that depicts the truck drivers driving supplies into northern Canada mining camps and oil exploration sites on ice roads that only exist in the winter time.
During the rest of the year, the road isn’t there. It’s open water!
Anyway, on tonight’s 3rd season premiere episode, we were surprised to see that instead of running in Canada this year, they’re running the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks, AK to Prudhoe Bay.
We’ve been on this road. Or at least part of it. We took a tour that takes you from Fairbanks to the Arctic Circle, a trip of almost 200 miles. But this is not your average 200 mile trip.
Because of the bad roads and the hilly, curvy terrain, it takes about 16 hours roundtrip. You leave at 6:30 am and return around 10:30 pm.
You stop for lunch going up and dinner coming back at the same place, the Yukon River Camp at the Yukon River Crossing.
Yukon River Camp
Yukon River Crossing
Surprising the food was very, very good. They bring a chef up from the Lower 48 every year to work the season.
The Dalton Highway was built to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the pipeline parallels the highway for a good part of the way.
Yukon Pipeline
They have a marker at the Arctic Circle to get your picture taken.
The Arctic Circle
This is Jan and I with our granddaughter Piper when she came up to visit us in Fairbanks last July.
At least when we did this trip it was in the summer, and not in January.
Anyway, the show is bring back a lot of great memories.
Thought for the Day:
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice in your head at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in there for one more?"
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Buffalo Wings and Emus . . .
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Our power went off a little before 2 am this morning. I don’t know how long it really stayed off, since the inverter kicked in almost immediately. But apparently it was off long enough to run the battery down on the computer UPS system.
Jan woke up with a headache this morning so we didn’t walk, but we did have coffee, of course. She took an Imitrex which usually works miracles, so we’ll see.
By about 2 Jan’s migraine had receded enough that she felt like eating so we drove up to Kemah to have lunch at Chili’s.
Jan had her favorite Margarita Chicken and I had the Chicken & Green Chile Soup & Salad. Jan also got a cup to Baked Potato Soup to go for later.
I don’t know if our order got lost or what, but this was the second time we’ve had really bad service at this Chili’s. It took almost 45 minutes to get our food, yet people at other tables were seated after we had ordered, and they still got their food before us.
We may have to find us another Chili’s.
More from us tomorrow.
In the meantime, I thought you might like to revisit our trip to the Buffalo NY area last year to the home of the originator of Buffalo wings.
Wings and more Wings…
Posted on September 25, 2009
As I said, today was pretty much just an errand day.
We’re at the Sleepy Hollow Lake Campground in Corfu, NY, a little east of Buffalo.
It’s the only park we’ve ever stayed at that has a petting zoo! They have llamas, goats, sheep, pigs, and emus. Not bad.
And for some strange reason, it also has its own firetruck!
Not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
After sitting outside with Mister a while, we headed out looking a good place to have lunch.
While looking for, what turned out to be an out-of-business Mexican place, we stumbled on Quaker Steak and Lube, a restaurant with, not surprisingly, an automobile theme.
And really good food.
Besides a full menu, they also specialized in Buffalo Wings. I noticed that besides the normal ones, they had ’Atomic Wings, so Jan and I decided to try a sampler plate of 5 wings.
According to the SHU (Scoville Heat Units) chart on their menu, regular Buffalo wings rate a 3000 of the chart. Really, really hot wings rate a 30,000.
Their Atomic Wings come in at150,000 SHU!
Jan ate two wings and I ate 3. They were hot, very hot. But I’m not sure they’re any hotter than the hottest ones that Hooters has.
But for the rest of the day, our lips did tingle and feel like they had been sunburned.
After lunch, with our tongues still tingling and our eyes still watering, we drove over to Sam’s Club for some ‘stuff’.
Heading back toward home we stopped off at a Walgreens that had flu shots available. Jan wanted to get one. This is just for the normal flu. The Swine (H1N1) Flu shots won’t be available until sometime next month.
As usual, I didn’t get one. As I tell Jan, “I depend on the kindness of strangers”. I figure if everyone else gets a shot, then I won’t need one.
I haven’t gotten a flu shot for years and I haven’t had the flu for years. And pretty much every time I got a shot in the past, I’ve gotten the flu.
So there.
We also stopped off at a NAPA Auto Parts so I could buy a new battery for the truck. We’ve had a couple of instances recently where our truck wouldn’t start, so I wanted to take care of the problem.
I installed the new battery in the NAPA parking lot so I wouldn’t have to bring the old one back later.
Later that evening, we decided to have more chicken wings. This time from the place that created the first Buffalo Wings in 1964 and started the whole thing.
It’s called ‘The Original Anchor Bar” and is located in Buffalo, of all places. The place is really a family Italian restaurant and has been around since 1934.
The wings came about when some friends of the owner’s son showed up right before closing one night, and the son asked his mother to fix something for them. She took a bunch of chicken wings that she was planning to use for soup, deep fried them, and then dunked them in a sauce she had been working on for another recipe.
And a legend was born!
This being an Italian restaurant, besides an order of Spicy BBQ Wings, we got a cheese and pepperoni pizza, and an order of Pizza Logs, kind of like Italian Egg Rolls. All very good. And we had leftovers.
Then it was back home to get ready to head out tomorrow on a two day trip to Celina, OH for the Eastern Gypsy RV Rally.
More tomorrow…
Thought for the Day:
Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.
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