Summer is a comin

April 14, 2008 · Posted in Photography, Reflections · 2 Comments 

Yes this is in stark contrast to my previous post but it is my blog and I can post what I want to! :)

Summer always brings to mind amusement parks and fairs. I really love amusement parks mostly for the rides, and fairs for the food. Anyway, this one is a shot from Indiana Beach and the ride is called The Den of Lost Thieves.

Summers a comin

Photo Data

  • Aperture - ƒ/5
  • Camera - FinePix S602 ZOOM
  • Date Created - August 28, 2004, 12:55 pm
  • Focal length - 7.8mm
  • Iso - 200
  • Shutter speed - 1/450

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Well, fudgie bars

March 27, 2008 · Posted in Food, Reviews · 4 Comments 

I upgraded my theme to the newest version and it broke the blog. When I looked into my computer for the older version I found I had overwritten it, so I will wait till he fixes it.

Anyway, today I want to post about food! Specifically barbecue, I love a good pulled pork sandwich. That stuff that White Castle is offering may look like pulled pork, but it is most definitely not. It tastes good enough but the problem is a pulled pork sandwich should be big! They put theirs on those little buns and charge 99 cents for them. It isn’t worth it!

By now you might be wondering, is he done with the posts about his trip? No, this one is getting there now! See on our way South, we stopped in Cloverdale to grad a bite to eat. I picked a little place I saw on a billboard a ways back. It sounded interesting and they had BBQ. After my WC experience I was really wanting some good BBQ.

I found it at a little place called The Ice Box. They had BBQ and ice cream and all sorts of other wonderful things. I had the BBQ and an order of chili cheese fries, the biggest order of cheese fries I have seen in a long time. They smoke their own and use high quality ingredients and OMG are they delicious. I am drooling just thinking about it, unfortunately it is too far away just to go and get some. Their ice cream is also homemade and fabulous(I can’t believe I used that word). I had the raspberry chocolate chunk cheesecake, big name, even bigger taste.

If you ever find yourself anywhere near Cloverdale, I highly recommend The Ice Box. If you just want some good BBQ you can email them from the BBQ page and they can hook you up, you want to, trust me!

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So sue me

January 24, 2008 · Posted in Blog · Comment 

Alright, so I was wrong, I didn’t post anything of use. Well nothing all that interesting has happened anyway. I wake up, I eat, I go to work, I come home, I go to sleep. Whew stop this crazy rollercoaster, I want off.

Life has been pretty boring lately, that or I haven’t been very attentive. I guess it could be either one. I did try a couple of new food items which I plan on reviewing soon. I figure I might as well write about all the fun I am having with my new diet. I have found things that I had no idea they would ever make organic. For instance, did you know they make organic beer? I had no idea, thats for sure. If I ever find some of it, I am going to try it! For purely scientific reasons mind you.

I have got to get to bed. I need my daily dose of tossing and turning.

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bbbb blehging no no blogging.(part 2)

January 20, 2008 · Posted in Blog, The Maker's Diet · 4 Comments 

Then again, blogging un-medicated isn’t that much better!

Well the dentist visit went alright, you know, for getting a tooth ripped out and all. It wasn’t fun but not entirely too unpleasant either.

According to my junk scale, I have lost 9 pounds since starting my diet. I am off mountain dew and coca cola. While it has so far been impossible to stick to a completely organic diet, I have done pretty well. I have been eating healthier and following as many of the recommendations of The Makers Diet as I can. Honestly, a lot of the foods he recommends are quite good actually. There are some recipe’s in the book also that I want to try. Getting some of the ingredients has proven problematic as the local health food store is quite pricey.

The local chain stores carry some of the stuff, but wandering around them with all the garbage I am not allowed to have makes it quite an adventure. I want junk food, really really want it. But realizing that it is taking years off my already short time on this planet makes them somewhat less appealing.

I am just blathering again with no apparent goal in mind so I will sign off for now.

God bless,
Jeff A

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Getting so much better all the time.

January 11, 2008 · Posted in For His glory, Life, The Maker's Diet · 1 Comment 

If you look over to the right in the now reading section you will note that I am currently reading The Maker’s Diet. Yeah thats right, it’s a diet book, but unlike any I have ever tried before. It is biblically based and quite interesting.

I picked this up because the Author, Jordan S. Rubin, has Chrones disease also. His was much worse than mine, he was pretty much on deaths door as he wasn’t responding to conventional treatment. He had begun trying everything that was recommended to him in the hopes of getting better.

The Maker’s diet is the result of his journey through illness. That is far from the whole story but if you really want to hear it all you should buy the book. The diet part itself is going to be hard as I will be required to give up a few things that I really love, the main one being pork. On the plus side I have already found alternatives to most of the pork products that I consume.

Hopefully following this diet will bring my digestive system back into some semblance of normality. Feeling this way all the time is very tiring and really doesn’t help with the depression all that much either.

I will try to keep you abreast of my progress through this blog when I start. I have to read through the whole book and prepare myself for this as it will be hard for me when everyone else in the house is eating something that I can no longer have. I have been dropping a few things here and there from my diet already so that I don’t have to drop everything all at once and go into some strange frenzy the first time I see someone eating bacon. I have added a category for this, hopefully I will stick to this and make some progress before I wimp out!

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