Running Bear's February 2023 Coffee Shop
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there hungry people. It's Troy again.
Just visited a new to us pizza place in Downtown Fort Wayne (Indiana): Alto Grado
I wanted to try the Detroit-style pizza. And we got the cinnamon breadsticks. Pics, then the review.
Review: The place is clean, and fairly new in the area of downtown called "The Landing"
Fort Wayne is a city with three rivers, and "the landing" is near the city park along one shore. Metro apartments in the area. One block is closed off to vehicle traffic. A good place to stop and eat, unless it's winter, and you have to hike in from the free parking lot on the other side of the river. We bit the bullet and paid the $5 for parking in the lot right outside of the landing. But, hey, if the pizza is good, it's just part of the expense. Right?
It's an order at the counter place, with wood-fired oven. But they bring the food out and bus the tables, so service was good.
The cinnamon sticks were tasty - but had a bit of wood-fired taste to them. Not bad, but not expected.
The pizza was good. Love the crunchy texture of the baked in the pan edges. But, since they're trying for that downtown hipster feel, it was paper plates and plastic flatware. And this is pizza I, at least, want to slice and spear with a fork.
Yeah... that didn't work so well. Even cheap-o metal forks from the school cafeteria aisle in the restaurant supply place would make this place into a *Must Visit* instead of a ... well, the weather's not bad, let's go park in the free lot and hike across the bridge. (about a 10 minute stroll).
I can handle either the pay-to-park (increasing the cost of the pizza) or the food-court-style plastic cutlery. Both together made the price a bit to high for the quality of the experience. One (parking) or the other (cheap plate and flatware) is acceptable for the price point. I'd prefer to not have to bring my own flatware to have a decent dining experience.
Just visited a new to us pizza place in Downtown Fort Wayne (Indiana): Alto Grado
I wanted to try the Detroit-style pizza. And we got the cinnamon breadsticks. Pics, then the review.
Review: The place is clean, and fairly new in the area of downtown called "The Landing"
Fort Wayne is a city with three rivers, and "the landing" is near the city park along one shore. Metro apartments in the area. One block is closed off to vehicle traffic. A good place to stop and eat, unless it's winter, and you have to hike in from the free parking lot on the other side of the river. We bit the bullet and paid the $5 for parking in the lot right outside of the landing. But, hey, if the pizza is good, it's just part of the expense. Right?
It's an order at the counter place, with wood-fired oven. But they bring the food out and bus the tables, so service was good.
The cinnamon sticks were tasty - but had a bit of wood-fired taste to them. Not bad, but not expected.
The pizza was good. Love the crunchy texture of the baked in the pan edges. But, since they're trying for that downtown hipster feel, it was paper plates and plastic flatware. And this is pizza I, at least, want to slice and spear with a fork.
Yeah... that didn't work so well. Even cheap-o metal forks from the school cafeteria aisle in the restaurant supply place would make this place into a *Must Visit* instead of a ... well, the weather's not bad, let's go park in the free lot and hike across the bridge. (about a 10 minute stroll).
I can handle either the pay-to-park (increasing the cost of the pizza) or the food-court-style plastic cutlery. Both together made the price a bit to high for the quality of the experience. One (parking) or the other (cheap plate and flatware) is acceptable for the price point. I'd prefer to not have to bring my own flatware to have a decent dining experience.
PRR Modeler
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Afternoon All,
Started out at a cool 50F but in the 70's now. Drove down to see my RR friends in Orlando and had a great time. On the way home I stopped and bought 20# of parrot food. Not sure what's on the agenda for the rest of the day. I wonder how Joe's procedure went yesterday since I haven't seen anything from him yet.
Chet- Good to see you back. I'm glad your shoulder is doing well. Great layout shots but tempered with the knowledge that it no longer exists.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Started out at a cool 50F but in the 70's now. Drove down to see my RR friends in Orlando and had a great time. On the way home I stopped and bought 20# of parrot food. Not sure what's on the agenda for the rest of the day. I wonder how Joe's procedure went yesterday since I haven't seen anything from him yet.
Chet- Good to see you back. I'm glad your shoulder is doing well. Great layout shots but tempered with the knowledge that it no longer exists.
I hope everyone has a good night.
montanan
Whiskey Merchant
Good afternoon. Forgot to turn the computer off so I figured that I had better check in again. I really enjoy the small town atmosphere here compared to Bozeman. One thing that didn't really bother me with the increasing prices was the price of gasoline. Everything is so close that I hardly put any miles on. Drove for 2 months and filled my car up still above half a tank. I do not have a fenced in yard to let the dogs run but they really don't care for the cold weather and I need the exercise taking them for a walk. Not only did I lose my model railroad by moving, another hobby I lost is working on my classic cars. The place has only one parking spot aloted under the covered area and I had 3 vehicles here. I gave the 2006 Ford Taurus that I replaced the engine in that my wife (ex) blew up in Utah. My neighbor was very nice to allow me to have a couple of feet so I can squeeze my pickup and Buick under the covered area. I have no place yet to bring any more vehicles up here or work on them. Sold off a few at the Barrett Jackson auction and managed to have relatives nice enough to let me park a few under cover in barns and shops.
Karl - Thanks for the comment, much appreciated.
Curt - Thanks for the good words. I was talking with Willie and he mantioned that you had made a lot of progress on the new layout. Do you have a link where I can catch up on it?
Troy - Those food photos made me hungry. I enjoy pastries and there is a great bakery department at the grocery store close by (Only 2 in town) and about the only thing I can get for a breakfast is the apple turnovers. I enjoy other pastries such as cinnamon rolls but with only me eating them, any extras would turn into hockey pucks before I would get to them. Haven't has a good pizza for a while. Back at my old place, a guy bought the old post office and opened a pizza shop, one of the best in the county as he tries to make everything from scratch when he can. There is one pizza shop here, Pizza Hut. I really would go hungry before getting one from them.
I see a lot of posts about how cold it has been Here's a tip.
Here are some more photos from the archives.
Going to head into the kitchen and catch up with cooking some meals and then using the vacuum seal machine to put them in the freezer. Still have some catching up to do having been away for a while.
Later
Karl - Thanks for the comment, much appreciated.
Curt - Thanks for the good words. I was talking with Willie and he mantioned that you had made a lot of progress on the new layout. Do you have a link where I can catch up on it?
Troy - Those food photos made me hungry. I enjoy pastries and there is a great bakery department at the grocery store close by (Only 2 in town) and about the only thing I can get for a breakfast is the apple turnovers. I enjoy other pastries such as cinnamon rolls but with only me eating them, any extras would turn into hockey pucks before I would get to them. Haven't has a good pizza for a while. Back at my old place, a guy bought the old post office and opened a pizza shop, one of the best in the county as he tries to make everything from scratch when he can. There is one pizza shop here, Pizza Hut. I really would go hungry before getting one from them.
I see a lot of posts about how cold it has been Here's a tip.
Here are some more photos from the archives.
Going to head into the kitchen and catch up with cooking some meals and then using the vacuum seal machine to put them in the freezer. Still have some catching up to do having been away for a while.
Later
Bruette
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Willie, I have not gotten to it yet. I like to work on things when I can. The furnace is easy, I can sit on my roller seat. When I get to it that is. I did find my notes. I had them saved in my Microsoft cloud.
I was an independent industrial mechanic for many years. I made a good living working on all kinds of machines and equipment. Some nobody else wanted to touch. I've worked on things from computers to 1940s earth movers. I seldom get frustrated. It's fun figuring out how things work.
I don't like to use any service; they can tick me off! I have to wait too long for service. They often work too slowly, and sometimes they are just plain stupid!
I only use warranty services. I don't want to do anything to void my warranty or pay for covered parts.
I had the Samsung guy here for warranty service for my TV a few months ago and he did an excellent job!
I sent one of my PS4 to Sony. It turned out it was not under warranty. They replaced the old hard drive with a new 1TB solid state drive and paid the shipping both ways! Best of all it was back in less than two weeks! All that for only $140, money well spent!
Luckily, the electric fireplaces have done a fantastic job keeping us warm. According to my smart meters the cost has not been too bad.
I had so much work booked I would have had to postpone a customer and I don't like to do that.
You are so right about age. Everything takes longer and I keep over booking myself. I need to say "sorry, but no I don't have the time". My wife will be happy if I say no more often. She has been after me to slow down. I feel like if I go any slower, I will stop.
I'm not greedy or extravagant. I try to keep building my nest egg to cover the next health crisis. Now that I broke down and signed up for healthcare insurance I need to slow down.
Bruette
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Thank you Curt!
ShadowNix
UP and GN Modeler
Wow...drooling. You film that, Smudge? Dang...I hope to go full railfan when I retire...some sweet pics...loved the whistle on your prior post with the Cass steamer...wowza. Totally jealous...ah 8 years and counting 'til retirement...
Smudge617
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Unfortunately it's not mine, just a vid I found on YT, all of them are, summer I'm hoping to film a few local heritage trains that we have around here
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Jaz avalley
Station cat
Love the hotdog stall and the swimming pool
Jaz avalley
Station cat
Love the round table and the Main Street shopping area
Jaz avalley
Station cat
Excellent trees and rocksGood Morning All. Mostly clear and 35° this morning. Upper 50's today, mid-60's tomorrow and Monday. It sure felt great seeing the sun yesterday for the first time in almost a week. Springlike weather for the rest of the ten day forecast.
For some reason, everything that I had planned for yesterday got done!The delayed grocery trek went as well as expected, it was a bit more crowded than my usual Thursday trip, but at least the stuff that I went after was in stock. Prices seem to have stabilized a bit; some things have gone up by a few cents here and there. I didn't look at eggs since I didn't need them. Gasoline around town was up about a nickel a gallon, but many places were temporarily out due to deliveries being late from the ice storm. Later I split some wood and got the indoor planting of Spinach, Lettuce, Parsley, Cilantro and Arugula planted. Some of the seed was leftover from 2020, so that is iffy. Just to be sure, I planted 3-4 seeds per pot and will thin if necessary. I cleaned some ashes/embers out of the wood-burning heater, and also spread the previous cleaning on the garden. Wood Ashes contain significant quantities of Potassium and Calcium which are essential to good growing soil. Yesterday's embers will burn out in a couple of days.
I didn't spend a lot of time out in the train shed yesterday due to the lovely weather that I had. Probably the same again today. While there, I continued on my normally fruitless quest to clean, arrange and generally organize everything under the layout. I know that some folks like to run trains continuously while working in the layout room, so I tried that again yesterday. Naw! It just doesn't appeal to me. I did have the Ipod playing like I normally do while out there, and rocked out to mostly 60's and 70's music, and relived some of the many concerts that I had attended. Moody Blues and Electric Light Orchestra stood out yesterday.
Here's a few more pictures of the layout at the Texas Northern Model Railroad Club layout two weeks ago.
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They have a member there who likes to make trees. I wish mine looked this good.
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Chet -
I just can't use the phone for surfing the web.
Curt - One can never tell what you might find on hoseeker.org. I have found instructions for some stuff that I wasn't expecting. It's too bad that your car wasn't there and you now have to wait.
Tom O - So good to read that you're feeling better. I also hate being sick.
Alice Cooper is 75 years old today, Rosa Parks would have been 110.
Everybody have a great Saturday.
kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
I'm baaaaack!!
The grandkids are sounding like there is a gymnasium upstairs. I'm nursing an inner ear infection in the basement. I did get some progress on the layout today. Actually, under the layout. The PC, the NCE, the LokProgrammer and the trusty old MRC powerpack are all co-existing together again, ready to program or test just about anything again. With overhead LED light strips (for old eyes) and a short little roll around chair, we be in bidness!
I need another antibiotic, and some tea (twisted tea that is)
The grandkids are sounding like there is a gymnasium upstairs. I'm nursing an inner ear infection in the basement. I did get some progress on the layout today. Actually, under the layout. The PC, the NCE, the LokProgrammer and the trusty old MRC powerpack are all co-existing together again, ready to program or test just about anything again. With overhead LED light strips (for old eyes) and a short little roll around chair, we be in bidness!
I need another antibiotic, and some tea (twisted tea that is)
NYC_George
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I'm playing the horses at the Meadowlands and they advertise the Martin & Lewis tribute show coming to the track in the future. In the photo they look just like the comedy duo of the 50's. I did a search on youtube and they look and sound just like them. The guy sings just like Deam Martin. Unbelievable.
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
I'm up.
Woke up at 3:30 with a start! OMG... I forgot to put the trash out. Gotta clean the cat box, empty the kitchen trash... OMG The truck comes at 5:30!!!
Got to the loo for the bladder run, and realized
Stupid brain. It's still Sunday. Trash truck doesn't show up until Monday. We're not down in Oz. Go back to bed.
Woke up at 3:30 with a start! OMG... I forgot to put the trash out. Gotta clean the cat box, empty the kitchen trash... OMG The truck comes at 5:30!!!
Got to the loo for the bladder run, and realized
Stupid brain. It's still Sunday. Trash truck doesn't show up until Monday. We're not down in Oz. Go back to bed.
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