Monthly Archives: December 2010
Alvin Opry and More Wings . . .
Tonight was Alvin Opry night so we didn’t get back to the rig until after 1am.
So I’m reposting our visit to Buffalo NY and the real home of ‘Buffalo Wings”
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Thought for the Day:
“I don’t call 911…Just smile and wait for the bright flash.”
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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 alpacas, 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 Celinda, OH for the Eastern Gypsy RV Rally.
More tomorrow…
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BAHEP and SATOP . . .
We awoke this morning to much better weather than we’ve had the last couple of day. Both warmer and less windy.
About 11:30 Jan and I did a 1 mile walk, though with less wind and higher temps, it was actually kind of hot. But it looks like that will change again in the next couple of days.
Getting back to the rig Jan fed the birds. At least today the feeder wasn’t blowing sideways.
I did get this photo of a pelican out in front of the rig. Unfortunately he didn’t come close enough for Jan to feed him.
A little before 6pm we headed up to Pasadena to have dinner with our good friend Barbara Cutsinger. Barbara is a great cook and we always look forward to eating with her.
We’ve known Barbara for about 5 years since I did IT support for BAHEP (Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership) where she works.
BAHEP is a membership group that works to stimulate regional economic development and employment. And through their SATOP (Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program) group they also connect small business owners who need technical advice with a NASA scientist or engineer.
One of the things that Barbara does there is compile and publish the Business Development Update, a document that details commercial and retail development in the area, along with office and warehouse space available.
When we’re on the road we always enjoy reading the latest issue since it lets us keep up with what’s going on back here.
We got back home about 10:30 and Jan went right to bed, since we’ve got to get an early start tomorrow. We’re Landon sitting after Brandi takes him in for his 4 month checkup.
More tomorrow…
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Thought for the Day:"
We treat terrorists with kid gloves, and citizens with rubber gloves."
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