Food

Mmmm…BBQ

The monthly meeting of the Master’s Miata Club was tonight and we held it in a back room at Bobby’s BBQ just west of Aiken. I like the food here and managed 3 trips to the buffet, before getting dessert. I don’t heap the plate or anything, but I do get my $6.95 worth.

The weather has been downright dreary around here the last week or so, but today we did manage to get the top down for the drive in to work and the ride home. We put it up while at the meeting as radar looked ugly, but it didn’t rain while we were inside. So the top went back down for the drive home. We almost made it home with it down, but about 2 miles from the garage we had to put it up as the slower city driving allowed the rain to get us wet instead of just the windshield.

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Beaufort & Back II

Today was our second recon mission to Beaufort for our June trip with the Master’s Miata Club to the Hwy21 Drive-In. We made it a non-Miata road trip because it was Donna’s mom’s birthday yesterday. We took her along (in her car) so we could have a nice seafood dinner together when we got to the coast.

We ate at a place called Ollies on Lady Island. The food was a little high, but satisfactory and the view is really nice. You are right on the shore of the Beaufort River with the town on the other side.

After eating we drove the 10 miles further south on US21 to Hunting Island State Park. From memory the beach at the park is real nice and they have a lighthouse you can climb, but it is $4 per adult for park admission and an extra $2 for the privilege of climbing up to the top of the lighthouse, so we politely asked the fellow at the gatehouse for a brochure and how did we get back out of there. I’m thinking when we go with the Miatas we will skip the park and head downtown to wander the shops and riverfront.

I got back into town with enough daylight left to spend two more hours pressure washing more of the deck. I think the pressure washer was invented by a woman as a sneaky way to get men to clean up around the house. “It’s a powertool honey! You can use it much better than I can.”

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?Que Dia Es Hoy?l?

The Master’s Miata Club holds it’s monthly business meeting on the first Thursday of the month. Because the members come from all over the general area we rotate those meetings between restaurants in Aiken, North Augusta and Augusta. This month’s rotation put us in Augusta. We because they had a back room we could use and the food is sort of cheap we elected to return to Mi Rancho for May. No one thought to look at the calendar to notice the date.

Turns out the first Thursday in May is the 5th. May not mean much to most of us Club members, but to Mexicans it is a big deal. Cinco de Mayo. The place was hopping. Even though a couple of groups started to join us in the back room they didn’t stay, so it worked out all right anyway.

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Around Rome

61.0 Miles. We got up EARLY and drove the day’s 18.6 mile time trial course. Tough damn climb in the middle and if the cyclists had ever stuck their heads up while competing they would have seen some beautiful views. Then again maybe not, as it got cloudy and then rainy by the time they went out.

We went to the start area and watch a half dozen of the 140 odd riders start their TT. We then headed into downtown to the finish. We had lunch at a place called Harvest Moon Cafe, mmmmmm. Brian’s Local Eating Tip #27: The food is great at any place that has the words Moon & Cafe in it. When the rain really started coming down we snuck up to the back roof of the restaurant and hung out with several others under their umbrella-ed tables overlooking the finish line.

Later that evening (the rain had passed) we went to see a Rome Braves baseball game. I’ve got a whole wordy post about this experience that will come in the near future, so just hold your horses, OK?

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Aiken to Macon

188.7 Miles. Breakfast – $3.79 (two muffins and OJ at the New Moon Cafe in Aiken, SC) Lunch – $7.14 (ruben sandwich & tomato & rice soup at Chester Dean’s in Sandersville, GA) Dinner – $28.00 (seafood teryaki & katsudon at Tokyo Grill in Macon, GA) Total $38.93 for both of us. Eat your heart out Rachel Ray.

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If You Blinked You Mised It

The Bravo-esque entry blocks are gone. Back to good ol’ rounded corners on all four. I think the look was kind of cute and reserve the right to use it somewhere at a future date. Maybe for comments…

I’m drawing a blank for for today’s Lens Day word of “Diversity.” Plus tomorrow’s theme for the Thursday Challenge is “Food” and I don’t know what I’ll use for it either (and I’ve known about it since last Thursday.) I can see hundreds of food photographs, but none I think I can do justice to nor any I want to shoot. 🙁

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Time In A Bottle

Man, I would like to bottle today. Mid 70s, low humidity, 5-10 mph winds and a sprinkling of fluffy white clouds. The pine pollen is still on the trees and the insects aren’t out yet. Bradford Pear trees blooms are still hanging around, the dogwoods are just starting and a couple of the early azaleas are out.

Radio Paradise is hitting all the right musical notes as far as I’m concerned. It is almost enough to make me want so send them a few bucks. Recent play list:
Joseph Arthur – Can’t Exist
Porcupine Tree – Mellotron Scratch
Deus – Sister Dew
Richard Thompson – Turning of the Tide
Patty Griffin – Change
Ian Anderson – Panama Freighter
Nik Kershaw – Wounded
Maria de Barros – Mi Nada Um Ca Tem
Bob Marley – Is this Love

Also, I’m reading a female PI mystery book called In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman that is hitting all the right words. Sample (she is in San Antonio):
     “I’ve never had anything like this. Most Mexican food in Baltimore is so…perfunctory. I mean, you know you are in trouble when the best place in town has something called ‘Los Sandichos’ on the menu. And the Mexican place near my house has a wait staff of Estonians. Here, I could make a meal from the tortillas alone. They’re incredible.”
     Rick looked puzzled. “They’re flour and lard. You could make them yourself. Anyone could.”
     “Theoretically.” She could also solve simple physics equations if she put her mind to it, but that didn’t mean she was going to start anytime soon.

A chunk of the day in the middle was taken up by that pesky work thing, but all in all, very nice.

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