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Cheesy potatoes are not all created equal. There’s a special place in hell for whoever serves them with the consistency of moderately thick soup.

These were the thick kind with the potatoes cut sort of like small fries. Overall the meal was pretty darn good the salad was more of a simple iceberg lettuce thing, but that was fine you don't go to a Cattlemans Banquet for the salad.

Oh and $3 beers, it was really kind of hard to go wrong.
 

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These were the thick kind with the potatoes cut sort of like small fries. Overall the meal was pretty darn good the salad was more of a simple iceberg lettuce thing, but that was fine you don't go to a Cattlemans Banquet for the salad.
Sounds like you ate at Unkie's.
 
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Sounds like you ate at Unkie's.

Gosh I haven't been there for years, I should go there again sometime. It's pretty funny in a little town like Thor they had to buy a building next to them and turn it into a bar/waiting area because the original doesn't have enough room for the crowd.
 
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Gosh I haven't been there for years, I should go there again sometime. It's pretty funny in a little town like Thor they had to buy a building next to them and turn it into a bar/waiting area because the original doesn't have enough room for the crowd.
Unkie’s is closed. I’m pretty sure Northern Lights supplies the food for the Cattleman’s Dinner, if I remember correctly.
 
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What or where is Cattleman’s? I ate at a place by that name that used to be in Belmond but a tornado took that out years ago and I assume this is something significantly different
 

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Gosh I haven't been there for years, I should go there again sometime. It's pretty funny in a little town like Thor they had to buy a building next to them and turn it into a bar/waiting area because the original doesn't have enough room for the crowd.
Last times I've been there, they don't take credit cards, so you better have plenty of cash on you.
 

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What or where is Cattleman’s? I ate at a place by that name that used to be in Belmond but a tornado took that out years ago and I assume this is something significantly different
He is talking about he cattlemen producers annual meeting I believe. The cattelemen's in Belmond moved to their golf course after the tornado took it out.
 
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Friends got their Story County property assessments yesterday. Damn!! Hopefully all the winners of increases went out yesterday as we never got ours yet. Fingers crossed.
 

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Not exactly sure.
Pretty sure a couple of years back. Either that or I’m misremembering. They were a customer of ours.
I pulled them up on facebook and they had a valentines special. Also showed days they were closed due to weather. Maybe they used the old closing excuse to change suppliers?
 
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Friends got their Story County property assessments yesterday. Damn!! Hopefully all the winners of increases when out yesterday as we never got ours yet. Fingers crossed.
I thought the assessments were only supposed to change every other year. Ours has went up for four years straight now.
 

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He is talking about he cattlemen producers annual meeting I believe. The cattelemen's in Belmond moved to their golf course after the tornado took it out.
Oh ha. I knew they moved out there. Forgot. I’ve eaten out there a couple times. Been awhile since I’ve been in that neck of the woods. Good food though.
 
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I pulled them up on facebook and they had a valentines special. Also showed days they were closed due to weather. Maybe they used the old closing excuse to change suppliers?
Honestly, working at Northern Lights through COVID, we had so many customers close down temporarily or permanently, that I'm probably misremembering it. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed suppliers either. That timeframe is such a blur anymore.
 

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Those can be a real b*tch.

Did a kitchen faucet a few weeks ago. Damn model I installed had one of those handle sprayers on the main faucet that pull down but the fricken weight they gave me to pull the head back up to the faucet didn’t come with a clamp so it just is a free weight on the hose so it was banging around and hitting my drain and caused a leak even though I told everyone in the house not to yank on it until it gets fixed. I wanted to blame the other adult in the house but I actually thing it was my 12 yo that ****** it up.

We had one of those at our old house, good idea but the recoil didn't work due to the weight being in the wrong place and I was too lazy (easier to just put it back in) to mess with it to fix it.
 
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Friends got their Story County property assessments yesterday. Damn!! Hopefully all the winners of increases went out yesterday as we never got ours yet. Fingers crossed.
We didn't receive one either. However, I KNOW we will be getting an increase, because they came out and walked through our addition in January, following up on the permit we obtained to build the room, decks and gazebo. :(
 

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Nothing in our mail yesterday or today. Probably waiting for bad weather.
 

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