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BTDT....The house get's mighty big and mightly quiet when everyone is gone.

 

You can't eat healthy every meal, Bluegrass... what kind of life would that be ?!

 

Yeah, my first few months as an empty nester... yikes, thought I was going to have to seek counseling for the first time in my life (and given I'm a middle child and only boy, that's a record I'm proud of).

 

Back when my dad was still alive, his doctor put him on a very strict diet that forbid him from eating many of his favorite foods. My uncle (dad's brother) asked him one day if that was supposed to make him live longer. Dad replied, "Don't know about that, but it'll make it SEEM longer".

 

A Five Guys just opened up not too far from us. Not bad!

 

I'll go to Five Guys once a year and get a double burger and fries. I figure it will take at least 30 years to kill me and by then, I would have already died of something else.

 

I wish I didn't have one so close... makes it very hard to go just once a year.

 

I've got a Dairy Queen LITERALLY close enough to the house I can see their sign from the front yard. That's been good for about 125,000 calories a year. Speaking of which.....Free medium Blizzard on any day it snows.....Did I mention it's snowing NOW? I'll be back!

 

Just like being at work.....As long as you got me, you have someone to blame it on!

 

Sort of a public service I provide free of charge!

 

I have discovered In and Out burger......

 

My favorites are Culvers, Steak & Shake, and Frischs (Super Big Boy!)

But NOTHING beats a good ol' HOUSEBURGER! (Home made burger on sliced bread for a bun!)

 

OK.....Off to get Blizzards....during a blizzard....Blizzard of the Month is "Red Velvet Cake". That's what the wife wants. Not sure what I'm getting.

 

Have a Five Guys about 3 miles down the road. Have only been there once soon after it opened. Seems expensive for what you get burger was ok. No DG anywhere close - could be a good thing.

 

I came so close to stopping there today.... I don't do it often though. Couple times a year spluge and that would be one, also Culver's. Instead had broiled fish. DQ is closed here in the winter :-(

Played with the camera and using photoshop to do focus stacking of snowflakes for the first time this evening. Hopefully will run out of snowflakes to shoot sooner than later!

 

I rank the burger joints this way. Not sure if you all have them where you live.

1. Elevation Burger. Simple, not overstated and very good tasting beef.
2. Five Guys. Juicy, tasty, more meat than bun is a good thing!
3. Sonic. Yeah, I love their burgers... big, tasty, doesn't taste like fast food burger.

 

A place called Burgerfi is an awesome burger and The Counter burger they are a custom burger joint....

 

What a morning.....Woke to a total of 4" of white powdery snow. Thought it to be done when I went to bed. There was about 1-1/2" then. Had to get the wife's car cleaned off, then the Tacoma, then load up my air compressor to take to work (along with a couple air nailers) Pulled in the parking lot and was followed in by half the Louisville Police Dept......Seems our alarm system had some sort of malfunction. Had to convince one cop I wasn't John Dillinger. Offered 'em coffee and a warm place hang out. That did the trick.

Now....Multiple messages on my phone. Let's see just how many of my devoted crew are calling in because of the massive snow storm......

 

Good Morning All! The best Burger I've had was over in Daytona at a place called the Brick Yard. My favorite local place is a neat old restaurant with outside dining called Chattaways. I think the building is from the 1920's.

 

Good morning all. Hope everyone is well. Haven't been on here in a couple of days. Currently 34 degrees here in VB, feels like 27, and it's snowing, which is going to change to freezing rain, then all rain later this morning. Great. Anyone want to buy a nice house in Virginia Beach? I'm moving to Florida.

On the burger front, wife and I don't do fast food hardly at all. Five Guys is pretty good, but it's rare we go there. People rave about the Steak N Shake burgers. Will probably give that a try sometime. As far as "chain" restaurants go, we like Chili's, their burgers are pretty good. We have a couple of local places, Lucky Oyster, Whiskey Kitchen, Dockside, and Stan's Firehouse Grill. All have good burgers and one great common denominator, BEER (and margarita's for the wife).