A TOUR OF THE CLINTON LIBRARY

As you probably know, the Clinton Presidential Library is in Little Rock, the capital city of Arkansas. Just across the Arkansas River from my home town, North Little Rock.The fountain outside looking across the river into North Little Rock.A panoramic view from inside, looking at downtown Little Rock.The oval office.

WINDING DOWN A CRAZY YEAR

Sculpture from the President Clinton Library, Little Rock Arkansas.

ON THE TWELTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...Twelve drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a milking, 7 swans a swimming, 6 geese a laying, 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE ELEVENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...Eleven pipers piping, 10 lords a leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a milking, 7 swans a swimming, 6 geese a laying, 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, 2 turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE TENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...Ten lords a leaping...nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE NINTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...Nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME......EIGHT MAIDS A MILKING, Seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...Seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle dives & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE SIXTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...SIX GEESE A LAYING...five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE FIFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...FIVE GOLDEN RINGS...four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves & a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE FOURTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...FOUR CALLING BIRDS...three french hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...THREE FRENCH HENS, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...TWO TURTLEDOVES...and a partridge in a pear tree.

ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS

MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE...

HOHOHO...MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christmas Geese sunning in Arkansas!!!

FALL PANSY

Just a single bloom....that's all I need to make my day.

A NEW TURN

I have decided to turn this blog into a photo archive of my pictures instead of a food review site. Please visit often to see my state (Arkansas) and other areas around the USA. Hope to see you again

Tostitos Restaurant Style Salsa

What Happened!!! Tostito's had a superb product with their restaurant style salsa but they stopped making it for some reason. I have been seeing blogs on the internet about bringing it back but are THEY listening? After I first found this product, it was the only salsa I would eat. It was far above any other salsa on the market. If you ever tried it you know what I mean. Now, I don't even eat salsa because all others seem down right yucky compared to it. I have no picture because it has been so long since I had any and Tostito's doesn't even have it on their website.

IF TOSTOTO'S IS LISTENING---PLEASE BRING THIS PRODUCT BACK---PLEASE!!!

(5+ Gold Stars)

ZAXBY'S

I hope you have access to this restaurant because I think it is great. It is more like fast food with a casual dining setting and take-out window. But the quality of the food is more like a better restaurant. They have their own special dipping sauce for the chicken and it is very unique. Very smokey! They only have chicken because it is a chicken restaurant and they serve carrot and celery sticks on the side with the wings which is a great complement. Their specialty is chicken strips and wings. But today I am going to suggest "The House" salad with grilled chicken.
I usually get the honey mustard dressing to go with this but sometimes will change to ranch.
We first ate at Zaxby's while in Oxford Mississippi about 2004. When we moved back to Arkansas in 2006, we found that they had built one in Sherwood Arkansas and we visit there regularly along with the one located in Maumelle Arkansas.
I believe there are several around the central Arkansas area. The House salad is served with grilled Texas toast which is excellent but since I have been omitting bread from my diet, I fed this to the birds. They loved it too! I have tried most of their items and have loved them all so I give Zaxby's 5 GOLD STARS. Way to go Zaxby's!

SOY MILK COMPARISON

I recently found out; not all soy milk is the same. I have been using SILK for a while and thought one was just as good as the other...not too good, seeing how it is soy.

I guess I thought all soy milk was supposed to be bad, as long as it was half-way ok, I could get by. Well, they were out of SILK LITE VANILLA at the store this weekend so, I had to buy a different kind. I was pretty mad because I expected I would have to end up throwing it out. I wasn't optimistic!!! Well, low and behold! It turned out to be 100% BETTER than SILK. The product is 8th Continent Lite Vanilla. I use the "vanilla" to help the taste.

It actually tastes ALOT like real milk. It hardly tastes like a soy product at all. I would highly recommend it to anyone. I could even drink it out of a glass. If you can't get this brand where you live, I suggest trying several different kinds until you find one you like. Good Luck
I give 8th Continent 4 Gold Stars, great for a soy product!

It's DiGiorno!

It certainly ISN'T take out!!! My husband doesn't eat frozen pizza but he decided he wanted to try a DiGiorno since the commercial says it's like take-out. Well, I don't know where they are getting their take-out because IT IS NOT!!! Actually it was really BAD...he only ate a couple of pieces and couldn't eat any more. The canadian bacon was like shoe leather and there was so much sauce it was oozing out all over. The crust had a weird flavor. I normally like frozen pizza, even though I don't eat it very often, especially since the kids are grown and out of the house. There was not anything we liked about it, including the $5.75 price so I am giving it a big fat zero gold stars. If you don't agree with me, please let me know why...I would love a second opinion.

BURGER KING

I do love an occasional Burger King meal. From time to time it has been known to cause my stomach to hurt but the BK at the corner of Brookswood and Kiehl Ave. in Sherwood AR. has consistently produced GOOD food. Last week I ordered 2 small hamburgers (Not the Whopper) and large french fries. BK fries are some of the last good fast food fries around, in my opinion. The burgers were great...fresh and the fries HOT and crisp! Anyone on a budget would be happy, at only $4.16. I will give this meal 4 1/2 gold stars. Only because they didn't give me any ketchup after I had asked for some.

DIXIE CAFE REVIEW

It had been a while since our last visit to Dixie Cafe. I am a bigger fan than my hubbie but we went last night because it was my turn to pick the restaurant. I ordered grilled pork chops, fried okra and a baked potato. He ordered the chopped steak, mashed potatoes and pinto beans. Everything was really good, especially the pork chops. We had only 2 complaints: The rolls and corn muffins were not very warm and my hubbie felt he didn't get quite enough food to eat. He said that is his main gripe with Dixie. The young waitress was very nice and kept checking on us. It's a good atmosphere, not too noisy and not too cold. I give them 3 1/2 gold stars.

RED ROBIN REVIEW

We had our first experience at Red Robin restaurants, in Prescott Arizona. My hubbie and I both ordered the BBQ sandwich with garlic fries (see picture at top of this blog), cole slaw and diet cokes. Everything was great and the service just as good. The waitress was quite pleasant and helpful, even giving us directions to where we were going after leaving. The whole place was clean and cheery, including the restrooms.

I give them 4 1/2 stars, (the fries had a little too much salt and garlic). I will definitely visit Red Robin again if I see one. (I have never seen one in Arkansas).

Best Wendy's

In 2006 we experienced the absolute best Wendy's food we have had since at least 1980. You know, way back when fast food restaurants actually were in the business of pleasing the customer. We were passing through Gallup New Mexico, 22 miles from the Arizona border on Interstate 40. It was lunch time and we stopped to get a hamburger and stretch our legs. No stale, dried up or tasteless meat from these people. Hot, fresh, full of flavor, the hot juice running out, but not too much. All the lettuce and tomatoes etc were fresh and not skimped on along with hot, crisp fries. If I lived there and ate there all the time, I would be so spoiled, I would die if I ever had to eat food from a Wendy's in Arkansas. 95% of all the hamburgers I get here almost seem like fake meat that has been sitting under a warmer. I thought Wendy's motto was, fresh off the grill. I say 95% because a couple of months ago, I actually got a very decent Wendy's burger that was quite good. Fresh, hot and juicy just like they are supposed to be. It was at the Wendy's in Sherwood Arkansas, Hwy. 107 almost to Kiehl Ave. It was not really at regular meal time so I guess they cooked it fresh when I ordered.
I will give Wendy's an overall rating of 3 stars because you can still get a good burger occasionally but their fries are just plain"yucky". I guess we can blame healthy eating advocates for changing the deep frying oils for that one.

Wendy's Review

Yesterday, I dropped by the Wendy's drive-thru window in Conway Arkansas. It was a little late for lunch, about 2:30 pm. (I had not had lunch yet) and decided to order a little something. I ordered a .99 cent double stack, no cheese, and a small chocolate shake. When I got to the window, I asked how much the shake was and she said $2.39 plus tax. I said "They are proud of those things aren't they"? She said "yeah, but they are hand-spun". I just kind-of laughed, since every milk shake you get at a restaurant is hand-spun on a rotary mixer. Funny! They have just decided to market that term to make us think we are getting something special, I guess. The first thing I noticed when she handed it to me was how watery it looked, BUT I didn't say anything. After I pulled away from the window, I took my first sip and almost choked. It had the weirdest flavor I have even tasted in a milk shake and it was extremely "bitter". I took a 2nd sip to make sure I just hadn't hit a bad patch and, the same. So, I made a loop back around and parked the car, got out and went inside. I told the young girl behind the counter that I wanted my money back because it was so bad. She held it up for the manager to see from the back of the prep area and I heard her say "Tell her I'm very sorry". She told me and just stood there with the shake in her hand. So, I said "OK, could I get my money back"? She said ok and went to get my cash. I'm not sure what happened but maybe whoever prepared it just put too much chocolate syrup in it. Needless to say, I will NEVER buy another shake from Wendy's. Now I am wondering if their Frosty's are still any good. I actually was never a fan of them in the first place. I will give this Wendy's a rating of 0, for the shake only. I DO NOT recommend trying one. The burger was ok and the employees were nice.