Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
food & drink, out and about

fred rogers

I’m taking some extra long weekends this summer and checking out some things in the area. Today was dedicated to Fred Rogers.

I think every kid in my generation grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. This morning, I visited the Fred Rogers Exhibit at Saint Vincent College. It was a nice tribute to him and was very well done. I also checked out the Fred Rogers Memorial in downtown Latrobe and swung by the Unity Cemetery to view his family’s crypt. The memorial was a nice little park. I was kind of surprised that no one else was there, but it is pretty hot to be sitting outside. I was somewhat surprised (but not really) that the crypt was locked only because I saw pictures of the interior online.

After my Fred Rogers tour, I treated myself to lunch at Chick-fil-A in Greensburg. It was my first time at the restaurant and I have to say that their chicken is pretty tasty! I would go there again.

 

 

books

the outside man

This was a book I think I read before from a novelist I used to really like (Richard North Patterson). For whatever reason, I could not get into this book. Maybe it’s because it was about a bunch of rich old white men from the south. It’s difficult to drum up any sympathy for them, you know? Anyway, I have another book from this author (that I’ve also read before). We’ll see how that goes.

My rating: 3/5

miscellany

wordscapes

I played this game for years (and years) and finally finished it over the weekend. Technically speaking, you can play the game forever, but they recycle old games beyond the first 6000, so I decided to quit once I got to that point. For that matter, it feels like they’ve been recycling old games for a while, so I think it was a good decision. That leaves me with Wordle and Connections. Are there any other good word games out there? Maybe it’s time to pick up Scrabble again…

movies

the gray man

This was an ok action flick. There was plenty of action, but it dragged on forever. I started getting bored at the end. It had one funny unintentional joke–the one character referred to Ryan Gosling’s character as a “Ken doll”. This is funny because Gosling played Ken in Barbie, but this movie came out before Barbie, so I guess he was born to play that role.

My rating: 3/5

me

birthday

Yesterday was my birthday, so I was off work (we do birthdays off as a perk). My parents took me out for lunch to Forno Alto in Altoona. I got a sandwich, which was tasty, but they had an impressive-looking pizza oven there, so I will definitely try their pizza if I go there again. We also stopped in Alto Markets. They had a nice selection of Italian foods. I did not purchase anything, but my mom bought a few items.

Other than that, I didn’t have anything going on. I tried taking a nap when I got home, but the animals were all over me (literally), so that didn’t pan out. After supper, I did a few things around the house and then had my first chiminea fire of the season.