My All Time Favorite Place To Eat

Whenever I go back to Dallas I always enjoy eating at my favorite restaurant. It is a Tex-Mex restaurant named Tejano. Tejano is in an old El Chico location in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas. I personally think that good food is a major problem in Arizona so one of the things that we enjoy when returning to Dallas is eating. Tejano is always at the top of the list.

When eating there you never know who you will see there. Many different types of people from all walks of life eat there. The prices are very reasonable but most of all the food is exceptional. When we were in Dallas in Januaray and early Febuarary this year we ate there maybe 3-4 times. I personally think I could have gone there maybe every other day but we didn't.
My wife's favorite plate is the #7 lunch. It is a cheese enchilda, a chicken flauta, and a puffed taco. I have had it and it is extremely good.
On my first visit there the fajita dinner for two was on special so my daughter and I shared it. Let me tell you, that was a lot of food. I couldn't believe how much we had. We had the chicken and beef fajitas mixed. Did I mention how much food there was? We ended up taking the leftovers with us and eating them the next day.
Did I mention that there was a lot of food? Maybe I did. But man was it good!
Latter in the week (Sunday afternoon to be exact) we returned to Tejano. My wife got the chicken enchildas. She enjos them made with flour tortillas. I must admit they are tasty.
But I enjoy the Mexican Dinner. Along with rice and beans you get two tamales and an enchilda. It is suppose to be a cheese enchilda but I always change it to a beef enchilda. One of my favorite meals there.
I do know that the day will come when I will hear the news that Tejano will have shut down. My heart will be broken and I will be sad. But until then, I will eat there whenever I am back in the Dallas area. If you are ever in Big D, check it out!!!!

Nothing Like A Good Read

I have a bad habit. I will start reading a book and then I will start another one. I will have two books going at the same time. But this time I have overdone it. I am reading three books at the same time. I will finish all three books, eventually. This time there is no fiction in the mix.

First is a devotional type read written by Pastor Chuck Smith. "The Man God Uses" (Word For Today, 2003) is an excellant book for men. The book has fifteen chapters and I am reading one a day as a type of devotion. My wife gave it to me for Christmas in December.

"Chosen But Free" (Bethany House Publishers, 1999) is another book I got for Christmas this past year. Dr. Geisler has written an excellent book dealing with predestination and free will. Geisler is a moderate Calvinist and so far offers a pretty balanced view. Geisler is usually a challenging author to read. I enjoy the challenge but it is not exactly a book to read in one setting.

When we were back in the Dallas area a few weeks ago I came across this book at a Borders Bookstore. When we got home I ordered a copy of it and just had to start it. "Uncommon Union" (Zondervan, 2009) is written by Dr. John Hannah who is a professor of Historical Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. This is a historical look at DTS, where the school has been and how it has evoloved over the years. So far a very interesting read.

Watching The Storm Come In

Yesterday at work while I was driving I got to watch a winter storm come in. I hit my first stop around 6:40 in the morning. The picture above was taken around 7:30. You can see the changes starting to hapen in the sky and the canyon was not as light as it should have been.
About 8:00 it began to snow off and on and the weather got nasty real quick. The picture above is at the bus stop at Pipe Creek Vista.
About thirty minutes latter I was back at the same stop and couldn't believe how much more snow we had by that point.
The road conditions were changing quickly! Right before I got off we began to get fog in the area. I was really glad to get off work when I did.

Work: Inside the Office

This is inside the office where I work out of. There are basically five rooms in our office building (which is actually a double wide office building). There is the supervisor's office, the driver's room, a small conference room that is also uniform storage, the manager's office, and the kitchen.

This is the supervisor's desk. All of the supervisors share the desk so no one has their own individual desk. This is where we dispatch and deal with paper work. Most of all this is where payroll happens!This is the supervisor's office. This is the view from the door way. It is really not as messy as it looks in the picture. On the file cabinet on the right you can see the flag has been brought it and is folded correctly. In the corner is the laser jet printer and our copier. Underneath (hidden by my chair) is where we keep lost and found. It is amazing what gets left on a bus and it always ends up in the office.

Work: Old Glory

One of my responsibilities as a supervisor is the flag. Whenever I work in the mornings I raise the flag around sunrise. Whenever I work afternoons/evenings I get to lower the flag close to sunset. I actually consider it a privilege to raise and lower the American flag.

Work: Who and What

As many of you already know I am a driver/supervisor for Paul Revere Transportation. I work at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. This week I am supervising and then we are heading out for a few weeks on a trip back home to Texas.

When I supervise management gives me a jeep to drive. The beautiful red color makes it really obvious whenever I am around. Makes it hard to sneak up on anyone!
Whenever I drive this is what I get to tool around in. Our buses are 40 feet long and in the summer the air conditioning is very nice but this time of the year (the dead of winter) the heater works great. Nice buses!

Chicken Fajitas!

A few nights ago we decided to have chicken fajitas for dinner.

I took some boneless/skinless chicken breasts and fired up the grill. Winter grilling never scared me! For seasoning I use black pepper and Lawry's Seasoning Salt.

While the chicken was grilling my wife was inside getting the refried beans and guacamole ready. The cheese and hot sauce was ready and pretty soon all that was needed was the meat.

There is nothing like the finished product hot off the grill, still sizzling from the juices and the hot grill.

We sliced the chicken into strips to put onto our tortillas.

There is nothing like the finished product.