May 17, 2008

• Weekly Photo Challenge, “Your Guilty Pleasures”

   

  Weekly Photo Challenge

  the subject from Ruth from Ohio is:

  “Your Guilty Pleasures”

  Having thought about this topic for a while, my conclusion is “my guilty pleasures” modify with age.  As a teenager I loved makeup,clothing and roller skating.  As a young woman I traded the roller skating for young men.  As a married woman with children my interests gravitated toward home and family.  As a senior, my interests are purely for the love of being entertained. 

  My guilty pleasures include, the pleasure of eating out, movies, my computer and digital photography.  I’ll concentrate my photos on Eating Out as my guilty pleasure.  I never grow tired of good food.

  My Photos/Graphics

  

  My collage indicates our food tastes are varied.  Some of the food spots pictured, discovered on trips, called to us with cute exteriors.  I do have prerequisites and have made some mistakes with some stops we have made i.e lousy food or poor service.  My preference is clean tables and rest areas, tasty food, affordable and nice atmosphere if we have time.  For a change of pace we carry out, for picnic lunches at the lake, or take it home unless we are on the road and can’t do otherwise. 

  (A list of the restaurants in the above image left to right top to bottom:  El Picante Mexican, The Hen House Country style, Charlie Baz’l's for Karaoke plus more professional entertainment, lots of sports television (probably 50 plus big screens), and food, Bob Evans great home cooking with nice people waiting on you and if you go after rush hour, a nice place to sit a while, Applebee’s, McDonalds and hiding as a background to all of it the Village Ice Cream Parlor, a spot we enjoy going to for ice cream sodas, in Lebanon, Ohio.)

   

  

  Everyone recognizes McDonalds.  We don’t eat here often but they do come in handy on trips as I find them to be clean and consistent.  I love McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin for breakfast, ordering it with two slices of sausage , a slice of FRESH Onion, a slice of FRESH Tomato and sometimes an egg and don’t forget the glass of orange juice.  It’s tasty.

   

  

  Bob Evans restaurants originate from Ohio where they have a wonderful farm.  The restaurants are laid back spots with a good cup of coffee.  Their sausage rolls are in the markets  and the company’s Internet map shows the restaurants in 20 states.  They have a very good menu and a pleasant arrangement so we enjoy sitting inside to eat.  The rooms and seating are clean, the help congenial, the food very good, the price affordable and they decorate for whatever is current.  We enjoy it.

   

  

  The Antique Peddlers is a lovely little eating place and our favorite type of spot to eat and relax.  We have discovered a few others I don’t have photos of, yet.  The Antique store sits in the rear and the restaurant is up front, the building sitting right on a corner.  They have a garden where all the vegetables they use are grown and the food is prepared, on site, in their own little kitchen.  It’s very clean, extremely quaint, small, which I like, and the food is very good leaning toward vegetarian.  Another plus, it’s a fun place to bring company.

   

  

  This is the inside and we usually sit looking across this glass topped table and sometimes in another small room with booths.  The bay window at the left in the previous image is the window behind the hanging plant.  This is our type of place, cozy, lovely to look at, good food, laid back atmosphere, nice people serving you and we can afford to eat. 

  There you have it, I’m guilty pleasured as sin when it comes to enjoying good food out and the little getaway it provides.  We enjoy a picnic too, so we grab carry out on some of our nice days from McDonalds or ??? and go to the lake and sit watching the fishermen and the ducks. 

  Now I have confessed, 
  have a super week and thanks always for your comments.
  

   

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