Thank yous need to be said.
Thank you to Janet Cherry, proprietor of the cottage bakery Cherry On Top, which provided the birthday cake for our WacoFork birthday party on Saturday evening. Cherry's half vanilla-half chocolate sheet cake with the WacoFork design in the icing was a big hit at the party. Make a note that Cherry On Top is now listed in our directory, so if you need a great tasting cake that also looks fantastic, or you're jonesing for some cupcakes made specifically for you, call Cherry On Top.
I've been trying to eat healthier lately.
I mean it. I've really been trying. Mostly. Like eating almonds or trail mix for dinner kind of trying. But of course, part of this gig involves making the rounds and that's hard to do and maintain a high level of healthy eating.
Case in point: Fried-day.
It's funny how this WacoFork wire thing works.
Because I'm not a good or diligent enough reporter to come up with all of this stuff on my own. I rely on tweets and Facebook posts and restaurant managers and just plain and simple word of mouth to fuel this blog.
When I was a kid, my family spent a lot of time driving back and forth between Waco and Lubbock as that is where my parents grew up and where their parents still lived.
That meant many long car trips. On those trips, whenever we asked my dad how much longer until we got there, he would tell us this unfunny joke about how a cat got its tail run over and the doctor said "It won't be long now." After a while he would just say, "It's like that cat's tail."
Well, if you're wondering how long until BJ's Brewhouse opens for business, it's like that cat's tail.
Right now, I'm sitting on my front porch watching grass grow.
I've planted grass, a fescue blend that grows well in the shade to be exact, and it's beginning to come up nicely. I'm also sitting on my front porch because it's cooler than 80 degrees and very much cooler than 90 degrees. There aren't that many days left when that will be the case before we are wrapped in the warm embrace of the five months of the year we call summer around here.
Cafe Homestead continues to elevate its game for its monthly Farm To Table dinners.
I guess when people walk away from dinner saying "That's the best meal I've had in a long time," it comes with a certain amount of pressure to keep topping the last one.
Fat Ho Burger is back in business.
It's reopened inside the RZS Food Mart at Waco Drive and Turner Street in East Waco.
Attention fans of Fried-day (if that is a kind of person that actually exists): Fried-day has been moved up a day this week.
It's today.
First of all, I'm not happy that I finished next to last in the WacoFork Bracket Challenge. But I knew on the first Friday of the tournament, when my Final Four pick Missouri lost to Norfolk State (or whoever it was) that my bracket was doomed and I was going to be paying out a few $5 gift cards.
But a friend of mine reminded me last fall that sometimes you have to take lemons and make lemonade, so I've attempted to do that this week. To that end, I've given the people who beat me, of which there were many, the option of a cup of coffee ($5 gift card to Starbucks) or a frozen yogurt in the form of a $5 gift card to Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt, which is one of our WacoFork advertisers.
I bet you think I'm dedicating a blog to the fact that there is now a fenced off perimeter in the shopping center at Franklin Avenue and New Road, the location where there will soon be a Freebirds World Burrito.
I did see that on my way home from watching the NCAA Tournament championship game last night. But I've got much juicier Freebirds info to drop on you today.
