Spent Day
1/20/06 7:18 am.
26º F, partly cloudy, WNW wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
It was a high priced day yesterday - paid a bunch of bills. Really a small bunch, but some big ones. We can now drive the car with insurance for another year and live here for another half year not worrying about the taxes on FISKLAND. Seems that most of the annual/semi-annual bills pile up in January for some reason. It is nice to have them out of the way, but dread paying them.
We did have one very small expense yesterday. One of the smaller restaurants in Algoma, Penguin City, had a special for supper yesterday and today. Lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs for $2.50 each! Coffee was 25¢/cup also. So .... for less than $6.00, the two of us had a nice meal. Can’t remember when we have done that before. At least not for a "real" meal. The food was good too! I don’t think it will be a regular deal, but rather the owners celebrating one year in business since buying the place.
Penguin City reminds me very much of an American version of the hotel restaurant we ate in when we were in Valkenburg a couple of years ago. Like the hotel, their restaurant was also small. Penguin City also has a very small dining area, with a few booths and fewer tables. In an adjoining room is a small bar with about five stools and a couple of booths. That’s all there is! Love it. Not too sure why we don’t eat their more often. I have stopped there a couple of times over the years. The food is good, the prices reasonable, and the place is spotless. I told Margriet that if I ever were to own a restaurant, that is the kind I would run. Especially since staying at the hotel in Valkenburg.
While we were in Green Bay, we stopped at a lumber yard to pick up a couple of tarps, the cheapest place to get them. While there we looked at their selection of gas ranges. Much to my surprise, they carried the same brands as I did in my store, plus several more. Ours is the range I sold to Mom and Dad in 1976 so after 30 years of use, is showing it’s age some and I have been thinking in terms of a new one for some time now. Much to my surprise, the two that caught our eye actually cost about the same as I sold the one we have. Similarly trimmed out too. We don’t like all of the bells and whistles, just the plain Jane that prepares good meals. One range is made by Magic Chef and the other by Whirlpool. I think the Whirlpool is the successor to Hardwick, the brand of our present one, as I think they have bought them out in the past years, along with several other companies. Chef was an excellent brand for me and been around forever. Whirlpool didn’t have gas ranges when I was selling them, so Chef was the companion brand. The first new gas range I ever bought, in 1966, also was a Chef. If we get one, it probably will be the Whirlpool as Margriet likes the layout of the top better. But that probably will be some months in the future, after this month’s expenses.
On our ride yesterday to Algoma, we went by way of Kewaunee. There were about a dozen deer alongside one of the farm ponds on the way. Most in a bunch I have seen this year. They usually yard up when the snow is deep, but without the snow they are pretty well spread around yet. When we passed the Kewaunee harbor it was black (really very dark brown) with Canadian geese on the water. I don’t think I have seen so many of them at this time of the year here before. Again the warm weather has kept them here longer. I am beginning to wonder if as many will fly south this year. The harbor is close to being ice free, another unusual feature for this time of year.
It looks as though there is a big snow storm forming in Iowa and heading northeast. From the weather reports, it appears the bulk of it will hit from Milwaukee south and we are to bask in sunshine and warmer than normal temperatures. Officially we have had less than one inch of snow so far this month. That is 10" below normal! That doesn’t include the rain we have received though. Suspect we will have a foot of snow on the 4th of July to make up for it.
Margriet has promised meatloaf for supper tonight, but I have to wrap some packages for mailing first - or I starve I think is the deal.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
26º F, partly cloudy, WNW wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
It was a high priced day yesterday - paid a bunch of bills. Really a small bunch, but some big ones. We can now drive the car with insurance for another year and live here for another half year not worrying about the taxes on FISKLAND. Seems that most of the annual/semi-annual bills pile up in January for some reason. It is nice to have them out of the way, but dread paying them.
We did have one very small expense yesterday. One of the smaller restaurants in Algoma, Penguin City, had a special for supper yesterday and today. Lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs for $2.50 each! Coffee was 25¢/cup also. So .... for less than $6.00, the two of us had a nice meal. Can’t remember when we have done that before. At least not for a "real" meal. The food was good too! I don’t think it will be a regular deal, but rather the owners celebrating one year in business since buying the place.
Penguin City reminds me very much of an American version of the hotel restaurant we ate in when we were in Valkenburg a couple of years ago. Like the hotel, their restaurant was also small. Penguin City also has a very small dining area, with a few booths and fewer tables. In an adjoining room is a small bar with about five stools and a couple of booths. That’s all there is! Love it. Not too sure why we don’t eat their more often. I have stopped there a couple of times over the years. The food is good, the prices reasonable, and the place is spotless. I told Margriet that if I ever were to own a restaurant, that is the kind I would run. Especially since staying at the hotel in Valkenburg.
While we were in Green Bay, we stopped at a lumber yard to pick up a couple of tarps, the cheapest place to get them. While there we looked at their selection of gas ranges. Much to my surprise, they carried the same brands as I did in my store, plus several more. Ours is the range I sold to Mom and Dad in 1976 so after 30 years of use, is showing it’s age some and I have been thinking in terms of a new one for some time now. Much to my surprise, the two that caught our eye actually cost about the same as I sold the one we have. Similarly trimmed out too. We don’t like all of the bells and whistles, just the plain Jane that prepares good meals. One range is made by Magic Chef and the other by Whirlpool. I think the Whirlpool is the successor to Hardwick, the brand of our present one, as I think they have bought them out in the past years, along with several other companies. Chef was an excellent brand for me and been around forever. Whirlpool didn’t have gas ranges when I was selling them, so Chef was the companion brand. The first new gas range I ever bought, in 1966, also was a Chef. If we get one, it probably will be the Whirlpool as Margriet likes the layout of the top better. But that probably will be some months in the future, after this month’s expenses.
On our ride yesterday to Algoma, we went by way of Kewaunee. There were about a dozen deer alongside one of the farm ponds on the way. Most in a bunch I have seen this year. They usually yard up when the snow is deep, but without the snow they are pretty well spread around yet. When we passed the Kewaunee harbor it was black (really very dark brown) with Canadian geese on the water. I don’t think I have seen so many of them at this time of the year here before. Again the warm weather has kept them here longer. I am beginning to wonder if as many will fly south this year. The harbor is close to being ice free, another unusual feature for this time of year.
It looks as though there is a big snow storm forming in Iowa and heading northeast. From the weather reports, it appears the bulk of it will hit from Milwaukee south and we are to bask in sunshine and warmer than normal temperatures. Officially we have had less than one inch of snow so far this month. That is 10" below normal! That doesn’t include the rain we have received though. Suspect we will have a foot of snow on the 4th of July to make up for it.
Margriet has promised meatloaf for supper tonight, but I have to wrap some packages for mailing first - or I starve I think is the deal.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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