Saturday Critters #632

Thursday, we took a drive to Lake of the Lilies in Point Pleasant.

The entire lake is frozen...

except along the shoreline where there are very small patches of water that had not frozen.

The few ducks and coots we saw were hanging out there.

The resident Great Blue Heron was there, right along the shoreline,

in one of those water patches.

It looks like there is a nest behind him...

or at the very least where he goes in the evening to keep warm.

He was not fishing, there must be some fish, or he would not stay here.

He enjoyed my attention, he was on alert at times and I have no doubt he saw me.

Walking into the lake...

and preening a bit.

I did not see the Egret that was here last week.

With single digit temperatures in the forecast, the lake will definitely stay frozen for the next week!

I hope everyone in the path of the storm is prepared, safe and able to keep nice and warm.

We are all stocked up with lots of "snow necessary" food, 

candles, batteries, extension cords, and a generator.

Most importantly, I have plenty of yarn.

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The Olive Garden

 We like to eat at The Olive Garden, usually twice per month.

We each always get the Chicken Scampi and it is insanely delicious.

The portion is huge, we each eat half of ours and then bring the other half home.

We spent $ 75.00 dollars...

this is what we brought home/

They have a 6 dollar take home menu if you dine in the restaurant...they offer three choices.

We have had them all and we love the spaghetti with Meat Sauce.

We got 4, 6 dollars each.

Our dine in meals came with all you can eat soup or salad.

We didn't finish our soup and we each brought home a good amount.

Our server brought us a huge salad by mistake and said he could not bring it back to the kitchen.

So he boxed it so we could bring it home.

This is the other half of each of our Chicken Scampi's, enough for another meal for each of us.

I keep breadsticks in the freezer that are just as good as Olive Garden's.

I make us 2 to go with this.

One spaghetti feeds both of us one dinner with a salad, that equates to 3 dollars per person.

This food that we brought home will feed us at least 5 meals...what a bargain.

This is why we try to go twice each month, the food is delicious and we always come home with all this food, minus the one salad.

We always tip in cash!