Well, the GS’s left this morning early… had to get back so GS#1 could have his “Hockey” practice… yes, he is taking Hockey instead of baseball… and why not? When it is hot outside wouldn’t you rather go to a nice cool ice rink and learn to skate and do those things instead of standing out in the hot sun… I know me and Grandma enjoyed going to watch a few weeks ago instead of setting out in the sun or rain or wind blowing dirt off the baseball field…
Once we got them packed and off to the next big think we took off as well for breakfast… usual for us… Braums… nothing exciting… well, maybe we should fix our own breakfast but when I buy too much stuff for such things we end up throwing out a lot of food cause we never get to it… like eggs, milk, leftovers, etc.… so we limit our stuff to much smaller amounts and tend to either just not eat or eat lite stuff where we can find it… all that said… we probably should not do it so much… just lazy…
From there I was going to go to Habitat and drop off some donation… too early? they don’t open till 9 and that was after we had been to the farmers market (yes we still do go there and buy small amounts of fresh stuff in smaller quantities that are not as likely to be thrown out… damn stores sell things in “family” size quantities and that is usually twice what we need and the other half is wasted…
We got some fresh tomatoes, squash and corn… hope to fix some tonight maybe…
But since the habitat was not open and the stores were not open… we just came on home…
When I got home I did a little looking for things this weekend and damn, forgot there is a car show at the Elks today so at 10 AM I was back off to see that…
Amazing that it had not been overly advertised for the “”none-car” crowd… I found it in several of the Car enthusiasts areas later… but they had over 75 cars in there by the noon call… Nice collection of cars…
and a great place to have it under the trees in a really nice shaded spot…some breeze and it was every bit 10 to 15 degrees cooler back in there…
Of course there was a nice collection of Orange cars…
Now this one , was not old but sure was fixed up… note the engine was even painted the car color which the description says is a special orange…
Can’t get much more OSU that this one…
An over the top Jeep with more upgrades than you can count… although there were enough stickers for the upgrades…
I finished up here and had a bit of lunch as Sherrie stayed home (afraid it would be hot out on the parking lot)… Got back home and did some work on the photos and got them stored away… and posts updated…
Looking for more things to do this afternoon…?
Well we did look and figured , why not make a run to OKC to return a “rebuilt” battery to the Battery Plus in Edmond and then make the run over to Green Chili Kitchen in Yukon (they are supposed to make REAL green chili like Colorado and New Mexico style – with pork)… We left home about 4 pm or a bit after… got to Edmond about 5 and I waited a while to get some service… they had one guy that new and one trainee… the trainee tried to help but what I needed he had no clue… I wanted to have one fixed (again) and check in rebuilding the one for the Roomba. While I waited I found one for the Roomba on the shelf for $55… I had plenty of time so I checked Amazon and I can buy another one for $29… so what do you think I would do? I waited a bit more then when I did get a chance to ask the technician about my battery (just had it fixed in May, although it was rebuilt back in April of 2014… all he said was it was off warranty and they wouldn’t fix it or ship it to me with out a full charge for new stuff… I said that wouldn’t work and would leave it till they talked to the manager… if it will cost me a bunch to fix then I will just forget it…
So at this point I am 0 for 1.
We then got directions to an Asian market in china town that Sherrie wanted to check for kids chop-stix… after some meandering we found the market… had a very hard time finding chop stix at first then found them but no kids ones?
They did have a lot of fresh fish… some really fresh…
We finally asked and found that they did have kids chop stix with training wheels… but at $3 each set we were not sure we needed them …
so we opted out of that and that was our reason for going there…
We are not 0 for 2…
I did get a bottle of Sweet Hot chili sauce to try on my next chicken grill…
Next was to head west for Yukon and the Green Chili… we can’t get that anywhere around here and till recently we only get it if I make it or we go to Colorado… so trying a place that is supposed to make the traditional Green chili Stew… is high on my list of things to check out… well… we got on Route 66 and headed west… that was interesting as we passed an old Original Arby’s sign …
Not many of the old originals left… most are copy signs that are smaller…
We followed the nav in my phone and found the Green Chili Kitchen…. CLOSED!… The air conditioners had gone out and at 2pm it was just too hot in the place for even the cooks so they shut it down till they can get the units fixed… Well S*** a brick!…
Now 0 for 3…..
We discussed what next… ok, lets go to some place we don’t normally go to … the idea of German and Cajun popped up so we opted for the Pearls Cajun Kitchen… I hadn’t realized it but there is a trend here with the word Kitchen… but more for that later… we headed back down Route 66… went south on Council to Reno and then down Reno to Meridian and headed south there… arriving at where Pearls used to be we find… It is gone and is now a something 5 grill … son of a …. gun!… …
Now we are 0 for 4…..
Ok do we head for another Cajun restaurant or German… the only German we knew of was way over East of OKC almost to Shawnee… but we did a Yelp search and found one in south OKC that was closer than the Cajun we found, and according to YELP it head a 4 star rating… it was called… wait for it…. Ingrids Kitchen… So we put in the route and off we went… to a very non-descript place in the middle of nothing… it was busy so we went in… there was a big group in there and you had to stand by all the glass counters filled with cakes, and cookies and stuff…
That was one counter and there was another like it on the other side of that far corner… but we did get to order a meal (although the German menu is pretty short… consists of schnitzel and Brats of 5 kinds… hum? they did list German potato salad , and red cabbage would be with the m meal)… We ordered the plate meals of schnitzel and I got the bigger one with a brat… they were pretty fast and when it came out it looked ok…
the sauerkraut was really decent… not over powering and the schnitzel was ok but would be better in a sandwich… The red cabbage was ….. not so good and the German potato salad was ok by me but Sherrie thought it was too tangy or bitter… so all in all … we had a very hard time finding 4 stars here maybe 2 or 3… but the atmosphere would rank it way on down the list as while we were there they had a shop-vac going constant to suck out the drains as the sign on the door said the restrooms were broken???? although we say people head that way? and they brought the bucket of SUCK water right by our table to get it out… oh boy that was appetizing…
So now we appear to be 0 for 5…. (not earlier I said KITCHEN was a reoccurring word here)…
I did notice a sign that said 5 for $5 after 5… and it was well after 5 and that sign indicated the desert counter nearest us… hummmm could it be? We asked and yes… this counter so we looked and picked 5 of the best and ate half of a macaroon (it we really good) and we have all the rest of this left for later…
A really big piece of strudel, half the macaroon, two large carrot cup cakes and that pineapple filled thing on top… … now that was a win…
we are now 1 for 6….
We headed back to Edmond to check on where the other Cajun place was on Broadway (Bigheads)… it was reasonably busy but they had a small car show/cruise stop out front that was probably more interesting… although we just drove through the lot and then headed over to Sam’s for a fill-up and home… on our way home we noticed that with the big slow down on south I-35 that our section up here was reasonably sparse… nice to not have to fight to get a spot to pass or get hung in a crow of 15 cars before you can get over…
Home and time to get some Rolaids down as the German is gurgling a bit…
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