Some "Friends" I Left Behind--Look In On Them For Me?

On 23rd Street between Adams and Jefferson.

http://www.homelessveterans.org/


http://youtu.be/KIo5xNyP4HU

Crossing The Pond For Cornishons

I like sour pickles so much that sometimes I can't prevent myself from taking a swig of the juice--even before the pickles are all gone. By "sour pickles" I don't mean any kind of dill pickle. A dill pickle is a dill pickle and a sour pickle will turn your mouth inside out! I can get $5.00 sour cornishons (French for "no dill") for 2 bucks at this fallen-off-the-truck grocery store over by the old stockyards--you know--by the landfill across the 24th Street viaduct? Lots of other real-deal steals, too, by the way.

You just have to be willing to cross the mote to get there!

New Harmons in Farmington--Boffo!

I don't even have to buy anything to enjoy shopping here; although, I have bought a few things since it's opened. 

Pink grapefruit sorbetto and cherry amaretto gelato.  Smoothe. 

 My favorite mango stilton in this section.

Sushi chefs create these little beauties fresh daily...glistening pink salmon roe missing from this picture, but trust me, it was Right On.



Kobe beef for under $20 per pound!  And cuts of dry-aged beef for even less.  No, those are good prices and won't stay this low once people catch on to the delectability of dry-aged beef.  Don't worry, other meat prices seem more normal.  Nice, really fresh seafood selection, too, offering calamari steaks and oysters in the shell, crab legs, scallops, clams, etc.  Almost makes you wish for Christmas Eve so you can make your traditional "seven-fish" supper.  Oh yeah, a pretty variety of firm-fleshed whole fish in this section, too.

And here we have a lounge upstairs next to the cooking school.

I didn't get pictures of the cafe or the florist's area.  Or the salad bar, or the pizza bar or the wok bar...or the very colorful produce area.  I've been there a few times and have yet to have time to check out the "regular" grocery aisles.  The place is ginormous!  And big, too.  Really, a whole marketplace called a grocery store.

Hey Trees...A Penny For Your Thoughts!

And Please! What IS This Thing?

Are We Alone...In Ogden?

Now you see 'em...

Now you see them just a little bit less...

And suddenly they are not there at all!

(View of the police station from my back window.)

I Love A Summer Night

Especially in the hood! 

Well, my hood, anyway.

Came out of Peery's Egyptian Theatre the other  night after a trip down Memory Wild West Lane...a bit thirsty from all the dust being kicked up at Hole in the Wall...and was quite refreshed by these sights!

Film Festival At The Egyptian: A Knock On The Hippocampus

The year was 1965. Our family had just moved to Syracuse, Utah from Farmington, New Mexico. One state away and what a difference a state line can make! For one, who ever heard of putting ketchup on hamburgers!? To the five of us kids, (elder brother already moved out, younger brother not yet born) having to make adjustments to a new place should have been, by now, old hat, having experienced a rather itinerant, literal sojourn on earth. But we were kids and uprooting was hard. Every time. No matter how many times we had done it before.

Something that was always a comfort, for me especially, was "going to the show." And go to the show, we did.


Peery's Egyptian Theater where I first saw this rollicking romp, which I must have seen at least seven times in as many days, (remember when you could stay and watch a movie over again without having to leave the theater?) is screening it again this week! It's part of the Pharoah's Phamily Phun Philm Phestival. They're showing other movies, too, like "High Noon" and "Shane," and "Gigi" which I think is a really ugly movie. But, that's beside the point. What is right ON the point is that I get to go see Cat Ballou with my sister and my daughter, at the historic Egyptian in Ogden, Utah. What would you call that circuitous kind of serendipity?

http://www.peerysegyptiantheater.com/events/film?layout=category

"Come And See...The Moon Is Dancing"

http://www.mambazo.com/

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=faXBr5H9QMc

http://http//www.utah.com/database/events/event32979.htm

"For more than forty years, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music. The result is a musical and spiritual alchemy that has touched a worldwide audience representing every corner of the religious, cultural and ethnic landscape. Their musical efforts over the past four decades have garnered praise and accolades within the recording industry, but also solidified their identity as a cultural force to be reckoned with."


Tickets are $20.00 and $16.00 for students and seniors. Student rush tickets will also be available for $15.00 one-hour prior to the performance at the Egyptian box office.

Tickets are available at the Peery's Egyptian Theater Box Office, by calling 800.888.TIXX or at smithstix.com

Phone: 801.689.8700

Event Hours: 7:30 pm

Admission: $20/$16/$15 student rush

Location: Peery's Egyptian Theater

Address: 2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden

Jonesin' For Winterfest!

ARE YOU READY? Ogden Winter Fest begins tonight. If all I get to see are the toboggan parade and this event,

I will be this happy:

Be There Or Be Square, Bear!

Ogden's First Winter Fest

http://ogdencitymayor.blogspot.com/2009/12/announcing-ogdens-first-winter-fest

http://www.winterfest.ogdencity.com/

Feb 12-14 (cozy way to celebrate lovers'-day!) A three-day snow party! You might choose to enjoy the fireworks or the toboggan races or the ice sculptures or the concerts or even wear your own snowshoes to make your way down 25th Street (I hear they're hauling in snow for this blow-out.)

Me? Not gonna be too picky about who I might have to knock over with my ski poles to park my Radio Flyer on the front row of that skiing-behind-horses event! Forewarned is forearmed, folks

http://www.winterfest.ogdencity.com/

Queen Of The Rink, Anyone?

These ladies represented at the parade tonight! (You know, the Ogden Electric Light Parade, fireworks and Christmas Village Opening--where were YOU? It wasn't even cold.)

I had no idea they even existed until I saw their float. An endearing piece of my past has just come back to life. I don't know, though. They said they couldn't throw the competition over the rails (because it's a flat track and there are no rails) OR elbow them in the breadbasket, (but I know they still have breadbaskets.) I'm calling "WIMPIE." What do you think? Is everything just getting too watered down in this oh-so-politically correct world?!