Santi Ficarnos

Turkey

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

We bought our turkey for Thanksgiving Day today and it is a huge beast, dang thing must weigh 25 pounds, maybe 30. It is the biggest turkey I have ever seen not on the hoof. We used to have some huge old turkeys on the farm when I was a child but we did not eat them, we always had one of the young turkeys for Thanksgiving, my Grand Mother said that they were tender and tasted better than the old ones. I love all the food and football coming this week and I can not wait to get this huge turkey into the oven on Thursday it will be terrific.

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Sub sandwich

Monday, September 15th, 2008

We have a great sub shop here close to our house, Jersey Mikes is a great sub chain that we really like to frequent. They make a wonderful sub sandwich and I really like their bread. That is the reason I do not go to some of the other sub chains is I do not like the bread and what is a sandwich with out good bread. I get the wheat bread most of the time and it is so very soft and tasty, makes the whole sandwich great. I like either the number eight or nine the club subs. The wife likes hers Mikes way which has oil and vinegar which I do not like but she likes them that way and thats all that matters.

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Tomato’s cleared

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Tomato has been cleared of the chargers of making several hundred people sick in the last month or so, and the finger has been pointed at the jalapeno pepper. I knew the tomato would be cleared he is one of the life bloods in the Italian family, with out tomato’s an Italian would starve to death. The nasty little pepper is something we can live without, although I do like Spanish food from time to time. I will have to wait till the all clear is given before I have Spanish food again, I can make it on spaghetti if I have to.

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Cubs game

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Every year we make a trip to Chicago to see the Chicago Cubs play my team the St Louis Cards, and this year we are going to do something very different. We are going to watch the game from the Wrigley Field Rooftop Club, it is located right outside the walls of Wrigley Field and the view is great. Cubs roof top games are fun and exciting, I can not wait to see my first game from the roof top outside of Wrigley Field, I have been inside Wrigley Field for games, and that is very exciting in its own right, but watching a game from the roof top is going to be a blast.

Wrigley Field Rooftop Club is located right down the right field line and only 454 feet from home plate, it is closer than any of the other rooftops that have seats at Wrigley Field. What is more amazing is that it is closer than some of the seats inside the stadium. This trip is going to be so much fun I can not wait for my Cardinals to beat the Cubs and I will be right there to enjoy it.

The food they offer on the rooftop is fantastic and that is going to add to the party. Good food, beer and most of all great baseball. This is going to be my kinda trip. Next year we might bring a big group to enjoy this view with us.

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