Bite of Bend & Friends Visit Us

Greetings Earthlings!  Did you know that it's warmer in Anchorage, Alaska than it is here in Bend?  Strange, but true.  Friday & Saturday were too cold and wet to ride.  One of the places we went while waiting for better weather was Cash & Carry.  They are a restaurant supply store.  If you want to know what's in the food you're eating in restaurants, this is the place to go.  Here we have a jar of pickled eggs.  I always wondered about their origins.

 

This is cured pork and beef, beef heart, cereal and soy protein concentrate product, packed in a vinegar brine with artificial color.  Yummo!

 

Here are the ubiquitous frying chicken parts, those would be gizzards.

 

Roger and Peggy Hancock are visiting us from Utah.  It is always a treat to see them.  We rode at Phils's yesterday.  It was cold, but a good ride.  Afterwards we went to the Bite of Bend.  Jim and I have given up on things like the Bite of Seattle, because it's just too crowded.  Wall to wall people do not make for a fun time. Bend, being a small town, had a small bite and it was very enjoyable.

 

They had one street dedicated to cocktails.  We did not imbibe, way too early!

 

The big smoker was there.

 

We could not decide if these women were in a band, a cult or what, since they were all wearing wife beaters, skin tight jeans and inappropriate foot wear for walking the Bite.  I was walking behind the woman on the right with the wedge shoes, and she was having difficulty with ambulation.  The shoes don't bend, which was giving her a very odd gait.  There were also issues with ankle stability.  They're hard to see, but the blonde in the back is wearing two inch platforms.

 

These are cool.  They're upright PVC tubes and you can grow crops in a very small space.  They would be a storage issue for us, but I thought they were clever.

 

Here is Jim's leg.  Jim failed to notice a manzanita and drove his bike into it. He'll recover, but for the next couple of days he'll be using paper towels on that leg, rather than a bath towel.

 

Other than that, Earthlings, I have nothing much of import to report.