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  2. Dog, cat, something else, or nothing?

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    4 hours ago, NotIThatLives said:

    It's tough.  It took weeks if not months to make the decision because he wasn't sick,  just his mobility and quality of life was becoming such a struggle.  Then I have this lady sitting in the waiting room who literally fosters old dogs tell me "oh, he still has fight in him."  Poor guy fell twice in the waiting room you dumbass, it's not his mind, it's his body.  

    My wife took the last two dogs to their final vet visit. It was time for both of them as you could see they were suffering. 

    On the way, she stopped at McDonalds and got both of them a large order of Chicken McNuggets. She said they both gobbled them up and looked happy.

    She's a sweet woman.

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  3. foodies thread, and other food lists!

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    33 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said:

    Or, if you happen to have one of those low-calorie conditions, Portillos chocolate cake shake (or during summer, the lemon cake shake). A big hunk of their cake thrown in a blender with ice cream.

     

    Yes, it's as obscene as it sounds but good God is it good. It's a DQ Blizzard in a fat suit. One of those things that you know how ridiculously bad it is for you, but is so good you don't care.

    I forgot about those...They are great. When I initially read the calorie count, I promised myself, "ok, this is a once in a lifetime treat, so go for it! "

    And I've been true to my word...if I was a dozen cats...

  4. Dog, cat, something else, or nothing?

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    1 hour ago, Zlinedavid said:

    Ours is buried right outside our kids' bedroom window. Able to keep guard, just like she would have wanted.

    A friend of my wife has buried 5 horses on her 5 acre property. She just had one pass away last week...Cost her $400 for a guy to come in and dig the hole with a backhoe.

    But, she says she wants them near her always...

  6. Dog, cat, something else, or nothing?

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    13 hours ago, mrflynn03 said:

    So this critter in need showed up a couple weeks before last Christmas.  Did everything we could to bring her back to health.  Had a good 6 months and suddenly lost her today.

    We have others but this loss is hitting my wife hard.  

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    Yeah, I have 3 wooden boxes sitting on our mantle. The ashes of 2 dogs and a horse (well, SOME of the ashes of a horse...the whole thing would have required a box 3 feet tall and weighed 70 lbs). 

    Shows what a softie I am for them...

  8. foodies thread, and other food lists!

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

    Posted · Edited by IUFLA

    1 hour ago, Billingsley99 said:

    Love Giordano.  We are going to try Art of Pizsa in Chicago this weekend. Any good food recommendations for Chicago. Something that is kinda unique to the city. 

     

    We The Pizza in DC is amazing 

    The obvious choice for me would be Portillos. A Chicago institution. Reasonable prices and good burgers, Chicago dogs, Italian beef, and if you can find one with a Barnelli's pasta attached, some pretty awesome pasta dishes (the Peasant Pasta and the Chicken Diavolo are both excellent). Very comfortable place to take kids too.

    And their chocolate cake is killer...

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  9. foodies thread, and other food lists!

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    37 minutes ago, Reacher said:

    I prefer Giordanos, Ginos East and Lou Malnatis in that order. Years ago, my office was across the street from a Home Run Inn and we would hit up their lunch buffet. My kids like Home Run Inn more than I do. Beggars is a good one too.

    Mile, have we got your mouth watering yet?

    There's a lot of great pizza in the Chicagoland area. We use to go the the HR Inn in Lemont, and on Friday or Saturday it was an hour wait. I'm just happy to get their frozen pizza ( at HEB along with Nick and Vito's too) down here in Texas. Damn good for frozen.

     

     

  10. foodies thread, and other food lists!

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    1 hour ago, Reacher said:

    Whats a list without pizza?

    https://firstwefeast.com/features/the-best-pizza-from-every-state/

    https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/best-pizza-every-state-slideshow

     

    Had to see what they had for Illinois. I figured it'd be Nick and Vito's. Good, but my favorite is Home Run Inn.

    When talking deep dish, they mention Geno's and Pequod's, but I think Lou Malnati's is better than both of those.

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  16. Pet Peeves

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    21 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

    Used to do a fair amount of air travel but now it's limited to just a few trips each year. For our posters who travel the skies often I'm sure they could add several. My few are those who try to run up the aisle and get off plane before others, people who take their shoes off while flying to be comfortable, those who can't seem to talk at a normal tone to the person next to them, and the window seat passenger who gets up 4-5x during a flight. Was on a flight from Indy to Atlanta few weeks ago. Air travel is about 1 hr 15 minutes. This must have been some active bladder because it was 4x during the flight alone. Never an offer of I'm sorry or whatever. 

    I don't have any to add, but I will say of all the far-fetched futuristic stuff I've ever seen on TV, the Star Trek Teleporter is the one I'd like to see actually developed. Says it all about what I think about air travel.

     

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  20. Pet Peeves

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    People who allow their children to run amok in restaurants and then look at you , smiling, like "isn't that cute?"

    I love kids. Have 3 grown of my own, and a 9 year old grandson. And I'm not talking McDonalds or Chucky Cheeses...Everyone's all Happy Mealed up and supposed to be having a good time in those places.

    But when I'm in a nice, sit down restaurant, wanting some time with my wife, don't let your children run around the place like you're at home. We literally had kids hiding under our table at a nice seafood restaurant the other night...servers having to dodge them running around. And mom and dad just sat there with those dumb grins on their faces. I finally asked them to not let their children play under our table. You would have thought I was the Grinch who stole every holiday for the rest of those kids' lives.

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  25. Aircraft in action

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    I was an air traffic controller in the USAF from 1980 until 2000. They had us out in a truck trailer once that had 2 radar scopes because they were installing PIDP (Programmable Indicator Data Processor...the first air traffic automation I ever saw) in the Scott AFB RAPCON.

    Anyway, one morning about 8 AM, an F-4 from the Springfield Air National Guard came down to shoot some approaches. He shot two (we were 250 feet away from the runway so when he went missed approach it rattled the trailer) and was being vectored for a 3rd when the phone rang. A general's wife had called base ops and said the F-4 had woke her up and he needed to quit making so much noise.

    When I explained to the pilot, he laughed and said, "ok, clearance back to Springfield it is!"

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