LET'S EAT

I was reading my niece's blog Dine-o-meter and she sure brought back a lot of memories of great eating places in Chicago. When I first moved up to Northern Minnesota that was the thing I missed most was a decent place to eat out. The world has been taken over my fast food and since we live very near a college town there is nothing BUT fast food. A few of the bars around town are known for great hamburgers or ribs but that's it. We have a couple really expensive places to dine but I think a dinner for two without drinks that totals over 100.00 is way out of line.

I guess what I really miss is the ethnic variety from Chicago. Italian, Bohemian, Greek, Mexican and the list goes on and on. Every shopping plaza has a Greek Mom and Pop restaurant where the food for all meals was reasonable with good size portions but if you wanted really authentic Ethnic cuisine there was Greek town on Halstead, or the old Italian neighborhood on Ashland, the Bohemian area in Berwyn or on Ogden Ave in Lyons and Brookfield. The breaded shrimp at a little place off 26th and Pulaski called Troha (not sure of that spelling) that had to die for breaded shrimp and not what they serve in most places, a tiny popcorn kernel of shrimp with a pound of breading these where a whole shrimp with a very light breading. Not even sure if they are there anymore. I could go on and on but I will only make myself hungry. Maybe when we head up to Alaska this summer we can find some good food along the way.

Spring has sprung I think

It seems like maybe spring has finally arrived. Makes you want to get out and start gardening and the hundred other projects that start in spring . We have started cutting wood for next winter already. Have about 1/3 cut, split and stacked already which is why I am so far behind in keeping my blog up, also haven't had any time to work on jewelry or beads. If I could only learn how NOT to sleep I would have so much more time to do the fun stuff. I just need to put a few more hours in every day. There is so much to do and so few hours.
The deer are back with a vengeance, so glad my garden has a 6 foot fence around it. We have anywhere from 4 to 15 every night in our field. Last year we planted corn for them outside the garden fence, they never even let it cob, don't know how real corn farmers survive the deer population. We came home the other night well after dark, it was about an hours trip. If we saw one deer we saw 100 and that is just what we could see at the road ditch. It was a watchful trip home.
Time to pick a project for the day. Hope to get back to this before the Alaska trip.