Holy moly – Lockhart Smoke House, one of Texas Monthly‘s top 50 BBQ joints, decided to open it’s second Dallas metro location in downtown Plano. That means we have fantastic smoked BBQ just 15 minutes from our house. No more trips downtown. There’s no better way to tell your wife that she’s loved than to arrange […]
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Dive Expedition: Sonny’s Donuts
We’ve found a new favorite donut shop. One that’s close to our house – no more longing for the too-far-to-go-for-a-casual-donut-fix donut shop near our very first apartment in Richardson. Behold the bounty of Sonny’s Donuts in Plano: Some lucky Sunday School class will be happy. One of my former bosses told me […]
Dive Expedition: Big Momma’s
We stopped for lunch in Sanger, TX while we were on our first round of geocaching adventures. We drive past the interstate signs for Sanger every time we head to Kansas to visit my family and, in particular, the sign for the original Babe’s restaurant. Eating at the mother ship had been on my list of […]
All That Is Fit to be Fried
Because today is the last day of the great State Fair of Texas, I’d feel a little remiss if I didn’t share an overview of our fried expedition to the fair this month. Seriously – we went to test out a new selection of fried foods. We run. A lot. That’s our justification for indulging […]
Dive Expedition: Tinos, Too
This weekend The Boy and I tried out a long-time local Tex-Mex favorite: Tucked away just off of the historic main street, Tino’s Too has a very unassuming exterior and even more unassuming interior. But it does have some pretty amazing salsa: And the rest of the food wasn’t bad either! The enchiladas rancheros featured […]
Fixing a Running Problem
This isn’t about running form or sore feet or chafing. No, this is about another running problem: Rust stains. Sometimes you’re given bum safety pins to attach the race bib to your shirt. Unfortunately, you don’t know that you have bum safety pins until after you remove the pins and find that your massive amounts […]
A Race in Review
It’s high time I wrote about our great race experience last weekend. (Particularly since the crazy Boy is running another marathon today. Yes: today.) We drove to Kansas to participate in the Eisenhower Half and Full Marathon. The Boy needed a redemption marathon after having to pull out of the Dallas Marathon because of his […]
Wot’s this about? Eating Ethiopian
I wanted to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant. I haven’t eaten at an Ethiopian food since I lived in Kenya in the mid-1990s. It was high time to see if it was 1) as good as I remembered and 2) support a local family trying to make a living. So I gathered Random Cathy and […]
Two Pinterest Tips Worth Trying
The test subject: The guest shower that’s been a bit grody since we moved into the Hayley house nearly four years ago. Test one: Vinegar cleans hard water off of shower heads. Like I said, our guest shower has been a bit grody. This isn’t technically dirt, but it is an abundance of hard water […]