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I-Dunno! Diner

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

My brother Eric told me about the I-Dunno! Diner a while ago but I honestly don’t recall what he said about it. Located about 500 S Main St in Spanish Fork we’d driven past it several times without seeing it. Rebecca and I rather liked it.

Rebecca had an omelet and hash-browns and I had a Ute Taco, which is basically a Navajo Taco — fried bread with chili and taco stuff on it. Both meals were delicious and generous and prices were fair. Most of the menu items don’t have names, just descriptions and a number.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was treading on someone else’s turf. Not that anyone made us feel unwelcome at all but this little diner was clearly a local establishment with regular customers, practically family.

They have a slick modern-looking logo which I neglected to take a photo of. You’ll need to watch carefully to see their sign as it’s partly hidden behind a tree or two.

Breakfast is served all day. I’ve always wondered why so many places don’t do that.

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Emus

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

On Sunday we went for a drive exploring our new home town, Spanish Fork, and it’s neighbors. It was a pleasant drive with a few surprises we totally weren’t expecting. The most unexpected find was a couple of Emus on a farm somewhere in Lake Shore.

Joust!

Emus apparently make this weird sound, almost like the sound a watermelon makes when you thump it. See if you can hear it in this short video clip.

We also saw a couple of large game animals (Elk?) in a farmer’s yard.

elk.jpg

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Home

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

After much searching and way to much disappointment Rebecca and I have decided to build a home in Spanish Fork, UT. The builder is Fieldstone and the development is called Spanish Fields. I clocked it at 13 minutes / 9 miles from work. The house we’re building is a 1390 sqft 2 story (no basement) with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a 2 car garage. We expect it to be done sometime in December and to cost us roughly what we were going to end up spending anyway. Of course that estimate doesn’t include the lawn we’ll have to put in next year and the various upgrades we could get could push it way higher.

Elevation A

There are several things we liked about the layout. The garage is plenty big, the “nook” is big enough (many houses we saw had dismal dining areas). The use of space is very good (again, especially when compared to what we were looking at buying). The closets are huge. Basically it has everything we want with the flexibility to upgrade things that are important to us at almost the same cost as everything we were looking at before. Besides which everything we looked at before this was a twin home with an HOA, this is a detached home with no HOA.

First Floor Second Floor

Spanish Fork is a nice town and very likely to be the next major growth area in Utah Valley after Lehi. It has it’s stupidities like operating it’s own ISP but not being part of Utopia but otherwise looks like it will be a very nice place to live. It’s also not Provo, which is a big deal for me.

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