Matts Bar

Went to Matts Bar on sunday night. Matts is one of the two original creators of what is called the "Juicy Lucy" hamburger. What it is, is a cheeseburger with teh cheese in the middle of two burger patties that have been formed together on the edges... you get a bunch of cheese that oozes out when you take your first bite. Matts and another place jsut down the street called the 5-8 Club both claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy years ago but i really dont care because Matts tastes so much better! Their menu only has like two or three other things on it and there is only like two options for each thing as far as how you order it. i highly reccomend it as it is probably the best tasting burger ive had. you might want two. i regret not having two allthough my stomach might have exploded. it would have been worth it.

Squirrel

Ive said it before, but squirrels have to be the funnest animals to photograph...

douche bag

I could have titled this post "fucking idiot", "absolute moron" or "total dipshit", but the good ol' "douch bag" fits so nicely...



first off, this is minnesota. this was the weather reading on my phone seconds after i took the pic... (note the "feels 28" part)



second, hes a middle aged guy in a corvette with the top down in below freezing weather... need i say more?

train yard

This is a train yard out in skokapee.... i have spent countless nights there painting. I freak out every time i drive past there because its just so fun being down among the train cars... this pic is really more for me then you guys...

spring

flowers, birds chirping, green grass.... these are not signs of spring to me...

the way that i officially know its spring is this:



that means the roads are salt free now and i can FINALLY get the lotus out of the garage!

xbox death

my xbox died. it has the dreaded "red ring of death" that just about every xbox experiences at some point in their life... normally that ring around teh power button is green... i turned it on over the weekend and it was red, with no signal to anything...

good news is, i think microsoft honors repairs for free when this happens now... maybe its good for me, i needed to get off that thing anyways!

Mickeys

Went to my favorite diner over the weekend... Mickeys! Had an excellent grilled cheese... I also have been obsessed with getting the perfect photograph of this place and I think I may have done it... I edited it with some artistic filters in photoshop so now it looks like something an artist may have painted or something...

Falcon

My favorite bird has to be the Peregrine Falcon. They are deadly and they are also the fastest bird on the planet. On a dive, it can reach speeds of over 200mph. Well there is this tall building by my house that I keep seeing them circling overhead by:

I looked up falcons on the internet and found out that there is a nest box at the top of this building and that the falcons are looked after by a local group. Today was my first sighting of one not flying so I ran home and got the binoculars and took a pic of the bird through one of the lenses:

Hopefully I see it again, Ill try to get a better shot next time.

Cars and Coffee

Today kicked off the start of the car show season with the monthly Cars and Coffee event at the Auto Motorplex in Chanhassen. Despite the near freezing temperatures there were a TON of cars that came out. Nothing too exotic, more Porsches, Audis, BMWs and Corvettes then anything. There were THREE Audi R8s there and I have a feeling that they will be insanely common this summer so this will be my last posting of them unless I see one that is heavily modified:

R8 interior:

There were two lotuses there, one Elise and one Turbo Esprit that I have never seen before:


This show is the first saturday of every month.

Prince!

I had a little extra time today before a car show out in Chanhassen this morning so I decided to go check out the spot where famous musician Prince used to live. His recording studio is in Chanhassen right on highway 5. It is called Paisley Park and I dont think he records there anymore but this is where his career took off from. It is still a recording and movie studio and is heavily guarded and fortified. There are video cameras everywhere and gates and such.
Paisley Park:

The view from around the side (truck entrance):

His actual house that he used to own is down one more intersection on highway 5 and then north on a certain street. You cant see anything from the road besides the guardhouse but from satellite views, he had a HUGE mansion with many acres of property back there:

Hummer

As if there weren't enough hummer photos in my blog yet... this is one that was spotted in Eden Prairie. What is cool about this one though is there was a badge on the side that said "biodiesel", so I'm assuming it has a conversion for the engine to be more energy efficient... Either that or he didn't want the nutjob environmentalists torching his beast of a truck! Still, I will have one of these some day.