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Wednesday
- Mar 4, 2020: Passing through Lenexa, Kansas I spotted a hawk on the
cross atop the 1911 Old Stone Chapel at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. This
attractive old stone church has long caught my eye and I hope to photograph
the interior some day.
We
drove to Lawrence, Kansas for Senior Night for the men's basketball team
at the University of Kansas. This is the one night of the year, that I
particularly want to attend. We were particularly there for the after game
speeches by Udoka Azubuike and Isaiah Moss. During the half time, the seniors
from the cheerleaders, dance team and band were also honored and it was
fun seeing the big response that drummer Donovan Miller (whose video went
viral in 2019) received.
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Hawk on the cross
Udoka Azubuike |
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Friday
- March 6, 2020: Following a visit to the Kansas City Auto Show for
my day job, I circled around to the east to have lunch at Big
T's Bar-B-Q in Kansas City, Missouri. I get to this part of town rarely
and with there being other nearby restaurants which I love (LC's
Bar-B-Q and Peach Tree Buffet), so it is hard getting by here enough
to keep the review current. Not that this isn't good barbeque, but I love
LC's. Both of those BBQ restaurants are on our Kansas
City BBQ Restaurant Guide.
Today
I wanted sausage, but it wasn't ready, so I tried something I hadn't had
before, the rib tips, which come with fries for $12.95. The fires were
good, but the rib tips were not as tender and juicy as I expected. I still
enjoyed it, but would not make a point of getting it again.
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A glimpse at the meat in the smoker |
Tuesday
- March 17, 2020: Due to the risk of spreading COVID-19, restaurants
in metropolitan Kansas City can no longer offer inside dining. I want to
do my part to help locally owned businesses stay in operation, I
picked up a chicken Caesar salad from Toni's Italian Restaurant in Olathe.
The salad was good, but I was disappointed that the bag did not have the
wonderful bread and dipping sauce which comes with the salad when it is
ordered in house.
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Wednesday
- March 18, 2020: I continued to get carryout at lunch from locally
owned restaurants and called Olathe's
Downtown Diner. They don't have a menu online, but we have their menu
on our page about the restaurant. I got a deep fried Rueben Roll, with
fries, which I had never had before. Not bad, but not one of my favorite
dishes from there.
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Thursday
- March 19, 2020: Today's carryout lunch was ordered at t he drive
through of Go Chicken Go in Olathe. I got a half order of fried chicken
gizzards without the roll and had them substitute a second container of
their wonderful, hot G-sauce. I drove to the nearby Frisco Lake Park and
watched the birds on the water while eating lunch.
Go
Chicken Go has a very basic, fast food atmosphere and this was actually
much more pleasant than the usual dining in.
I
didn't recognize any of the people working in the restaurant today. That
has never happened before.
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Friday
- March 20, 2020: Continuing to get lunch to go in Olathe, I stopped
by Smokin' Joe's BBQ to get
a ribber (three large pork ribs and fries). I was the only one picking
up food and the clerk said that business had been slow. I drove to the
west side of town and had lunch looking out at Lake Olathe.
Afterward,
I stopped Cedar Creek Waterfall
to make a video in the beautiful weather.
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Cedar Creek Waterfall |
Saturday
- March 21, 2020: It is another beautiful day and it is going to be
weeks before we have much new material for our web site and Facebook page,
so I headed to Merriam Kansas to photograph waterfalls on Turkey Creek.
The one at the right, is in Merriam's Waterfall
Park, but I also visited one about a half mile up river, near Ikea.
I
drove nearby to Shawnee, Kansas to Horse Thief Cemetery, which I first
heard of years ago on the radio program What'd Ya Know? Also known
as Campbell Cemetery, the tiny cemetery is in the middle of a block in
a residential neighborhood, All that is there, is a set of steps at the
entrance, an old stone post and a single large marker devoted to Alexander
and Nancy Campbell. Tradition is that 4 horse thieves were once hung and
buried in the cemetery, but I' not sure how accurate that is.
I
went on to revisit Shawnee Indian
Cemetery, about a half mile away. It was the first time I had been
there since several of the stones were stolen and I will be updating the
photos devoted to the cemetery.
Before
leaving the neighborhood, I went searching for a huge clothes pin, which
had been carved from the trunk of a dead tree. It had been moved to a new
yard, but I quickly located it.
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Turkey Creek Waterfall
Horse Thief Cemetery
Giant Clothes Pin |
Sunday
- March 22, 2020: We had a carryout pizza from Pizza
Man in Lenexa, Kansas today. I really enjoy their Chicago thin crust
pizza. Since I am in a high risk group, this may be the last we get carryout
food for the next few weeks.
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