A Happy 70th Birthday

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Clay had a good day for his actual 70th, yesterday. Of course, as usual, we've been celebrating it for at least a month now. But today was the day. He got calls from his siblings, from an aunt and a b-day card with a check from his mother-in-law. For dinner, he'd chosen to go to Angus Barn. It is a local institution and very popular. It is a big meal though and a big expense and inconvenient to get to being out by the airport, so we only go about once a decade. That said there had been some changes though much remained the same. The biggest change we noticed was the Wild Turkey Lounge has moved upstairs and been enlarged. That was good for us as viewing the menus online, we'd decided that on a Tuesday night we'd take our chances there without a reservation. We realized that the difference between the 2 menus after 5:30pm was that the lounge would not include a salad and that was fine. What we didn't know is that the cheese, cracker and relish dish the restaurant includes up front at the table was also included at the lounge by way of a self-serve buffet. Bonus. The biggest change Clay noticed is that his much anticipated beef ribs had changed. He knew they served 5 last time we went and now it was 4 but what he didn't know until they were served was the cut had changed. You can ask him about rib meat cuts and he'll give you his treatise. Suffice to say he's had his last beef ribs at Angus Barn. Too bad. Lastly, we've always picked up a chocolate chess pie at the gift shop on our way out. The price has increase dramatically to $18 since our last visit. That is still close to the price for 2 servings for a whole pie, but not the great deal it used to be. Still a good dinner. They still have a barrel of red apples to pick one from on your way out.

In other disappointing news, you may have noticed the January temps arrived overnight this week. Clay has finally found a chink in the armor of his Kia Niro PHEV. It seems that the battery capacity or charge time is seriously reduced by the cold temperatures. Not surprising, but he is pretty stressed right now. Thank God we already put in the Level 2 charger for his birthday!