First, we drove to Perry, UT, just outside of Brigham City, UT...about 100 miles away. We went there because of a great restaurant called Maddox Ranch House. They have the best dead cow I've ever eaten. Besides being a restaurant, it's a cow ranch, slaughter house, etc. They sell beef and bison, too. After a wonderful lunch, we bought 10 pounds of hamburger patties and 2 nice Chuck Roasts. When we've BBQ'd those burgers in the past, our family has asked what we did to the meat to make it so good. Maddox's has been around since WWII. Double click the photo below and check out the cars in the parking lot. This must have been taken in the late 1950's.
This photo was taken more recently.
Here's their Website:
http://maddoxfinefoods.com/
Then we drove down the road, south, about 10 miles to Smith and Edwards just outside of Ogden. It's a huge, massive, big place that is a combination of an Ace Hardware Store, an Army/Navy Salvage Store, and a, well, here's their own description:
"Since 1947, Smith and Edwards has been one of Utah's unique destination retail experiences. Three generations strong with family tradition, the 171,000 square foot store includes departments for camping, fishing, backpacking, climbing, caving, hunting, guns and ammo, emergency preparedness, and extraordinary selection of Dutch oven cookware, marine, water sports, western tack sales and manufacturing, western jewelry, clothing, coats, footwear, toys, house wares, hardware, automotive, paint, plus U.S. and international military surplus - all this in addition to the sixty are yard which is filled with a huge assortment of military surplus...the "scrap" that started it all."
You could shop there for hours. And we did!
And, here's their Website:
http://www.smithandedwards.com/index.asp
It was a great day. The yard work will still be there for us to do next Saturday, but this was a beautiful, spring day that screamed for a Road Trip.
We made memories today!
