Lorena promises me she will put some in the freezer to save for me when I get home!
Day: January 12, 2013
There is nothing about the Prescott Valley Public Library that is anything short of stunning. The picture above is the one I took as I walked in from the parking lot and does not do the rusted metal exterior and glass motif of the building justice. Many of you know that our family spends a lot of time in libraries. We generally like to spend time at college libraries because Lorena and the kids can study there while I work. College libraries tend to have pretty good wireless internet, so I was thinking of heading over to the Prescott College Library a small liberal arts college here in town. I went to their web site and talked to a few people all of which led me to the understanding that this particular college took the liberal (in the modern sense pop culture sense, not the classical sense) part of the liberal arts program to extremes that might make me persona non-grata. So I opted to huddle with the proletariat at the public library and boy am I glad I made that choice.
The left, top picture of the view from where I am sitting right now out the window looking at the mountains. Actually, you can see beautiful mountains on two sides from windows that are thirty feet high and run the entire length of the building. The inside is no less stunning. I took the left, bottom picture looking down onto the first floor. Just wow. I will be here a lot.
And, just to be consistent. They have a great little coffee shop and you can drink coffee in the stacks.
Day 509 of 1000
Having grown up in the west, I had no true concept about the relative qualities of biscuits. I grew up thinking that a biscuit was a biscuit; what’s the fuss. I did not know how wrong I was until we moved to Raleigh. I was reminded of this at breakfast this morning when I ordered a sausage biscuit at McDonalds in Prescott Valley. I was greatly saddened when I realized that the biscuits at McDonald’s in Prescott Valley are very similar to those we bought (sparingly) when we lived in Oregon. I guess they just do not know how to do it right here.
Our operating theory is that Bojangles, being a southern company with all the knowledge of what is a good biscuit, and even more importantly, how to make one, was kicking McDonald’s fanny throughout the south at breakfast time. They absolutely get their country ham biscuit just right. So, too compete, McDonald’s has upped their game. The biscuits at all the McDonald’s in North Carolina are profoundly better than any biscuit I have ever eaten out west.
But there is good news…