Warner Robins Burger Week

Warner Robins had a Burger Week where lots of places (23 to be exact). As Wednesday night if family dinner night we opted to go to a few places and split some burgers.  First up was the Butcher shop - I actually took a picture of what their burger was: 
I didn’t take a picture of the ACTUAL Burger because it was a “to go” only situation as this is really a Butcher shop, vs. a restaurant.  The burger was good - very good taste.  Liked it, but it was not the favorite…. It was the first that we really liked that had a good impression.

The next was Big Picture Burgers which we did sit down and have it there, and took the above burger in and while sitting and waiting for the frisco type burger from there we split the first burger and enjoyed it… then enjoyed the burger from Big Picture burgers… along with some onion rings.  Then we moved on to Black Barley’s pub down the road to split theirs.

While we pulled up to Black Barley and got on their wait list to get a table, we walked over to the new coffee shop - Woodlands to check out their burger…. There were quite a few people in there, and we walked in and EVERY head turned and looked at us!!! Goodness.  I said “I feel like we walked into something we shouldn’t” - felt rather horror story, stepford wives vibe.  ha!!  We found out they were closed and had closed at 4:30 that day and this was a mission trip to Honduras meeting for their church group that goes there.. it was only about $1,200 to go with them.  Really?  I’m IN!! Butch on the other hand wanted to know about diving.  Really dude?  Really?  Funny.  We did go back!

We got our call and went to Black Barley and it was an OK burger, but it wasn’t the best… so with that we have all had a full burger and some fries and/or onion rings along with beers for the others and a soda and water for me… so we were content and stopped there… 

Friday Butch and I decided to go out and do it again, this time we went to Woodlands again and that one DID impress. It was a sweet waffle burger with bacon and such on there.. this is the full burger and we split it… it was HUGE.  I think icould have eaten the whole thing - less the salad.  Their coffee’s were sugar free and yummy as well, so bonus!!

And Wild Wings for their Korean inspired burger with a pretzel bun (my favorite)… it didn’t impress, but you know, it’s burgers, so we ate it all… ha!  Their onion rings were way better than Big Picture burgers however :)

SATURDAY Barbara and I hit one as well with Wilsons as they were the sweets shop - they had a cupcake burger with fries… the fries were super messy and crumbly, so impossible to eat… the cupcake was tasty - they had two and the fries so Barbara and I split it - one cupcake each :)

And with that Burger week was over.

Hurricane Helena

We were hearing rumblings about this hurricane from the weekend prior with dire warnings of 100mph winds anticipated.

The storm was to land on Thursday night Friday morning.  it did pass through here at 2am.  The good news is that we were on the left hand side of it all, so we got the LESSER winds as they spin counter clockwise - meaning the right side is the side you do NOT want to be on.  There were places about an hour south (Valdosta) that got creamed and got a lot of damage and lots north that have been on the news that they really suffered with the water and flooding that caused devastation.  

We we DID have some killer winds and I was woken up at 5:30am to the flag trying to be pulled off the flagpole - the ONE thing we forgot to pull down overnight.  Butch had even pulled in my bird feeders and such but forgot that one thing.  At 6:00 or 6:30 when I found out that there was no going back to sleep I got up, got ready, got dressed (unusual for me) and went out to take the flag down as the wind was still whipping.  I got out there, started to let it down as it’s a telescoping pole… the first release of the first level had it spray water all down the front of me.  I had to laugh as it was a LOT of water just shot at me out the thumb hole where the pin is pushed in.  I chuckled, and went on to the other levels - being VERY mindful to aim that dang hole away from me and it was a smart move as it continued to spew water out at each level that was let down.  I pulled the wet flag to the back yard and hung it up to dry on my hammock stand.  

The news on the rain front was that it started to rain at about 9 pm on Wednesday.  We thought Liz beat the rain home as she left headed north after doing a burger week run with us in Warner Robins.  Thats another story that will follow.  

Anyway we started out with Thursday morning at 3.25” of rain overnight… 

By the end of Thursday there was another 2.75” or a tad more…

By the end of Friday and the end of the rain we had another 4.6” of rain…

Are you adding this up?  Yep, that is OVEr 10” of rain in two days… lots of rain, so I’m grateful that the amount of rain and the amount of the water IN The ground in that we didn’t have a lot of trees down.  By Friday we had clear sky’s with white puffy clouds.  There was still a bit of wind that was there, but mostly stiff breezes here.  I sent a video to my siblings who were also very surprised that we had blue skys as the news on the west coast really showed us still under cloud cover and bad weather.  SO… all is well here from this storm.  Electricity stayed up the whole time and we’re very blessed that we had such an easy time of it.