Runner Fish Fun and Saving Money Adventures in The Park

 Another day and another dollar or as the saying goes, and in "The Park" the constant search for helping the dollar go longer continues. It's one of my favorite hobbies, and I would go far as to say it's most Ohioans favorite hobby how to save an extra dollar. 


If you ask Ohioans, how much you love their new item, of whatever it may be,  they will happily let you know how they were able to get a good deal on it. It is a point of pride, that they were able to save a bit of moolah! 


As a counter point as the good Book states in 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." I'll take that advice, that money shouldn't be the total focus of life. 

And that's what I adore about "The Park". The residents, stick together, are resilient, kind and always making adjustments for success. As the seasons change, there is a need to change a long with the weather, and to modify your environment. 


Fall is the perfect season for a good fish fry! Growing up going to a Fish Fry was a the main event of the day, you would talk about the type of fish you would buy, normally it would be a perch, whiting or walleye option. What would be the sides available? Would you have Mac and cheese, collard greens, potato salad, macaroni salad, or coleslaw? Just the smell of a fish fry brings back happy memories of joy and contentment. 

As an adult I try to recreate those great times again, but this time I am the one in charge and I decide that for my fish fry, that I want to make it a homey, warm and comfortable environment. So I focus on getting the best deal I can with the freshest fish available.

So I hop over to Klein's fish in "The Park". The selection is outstanding the customer services is warm, helpful and friendly and the location, location, location is so convenient I can walk. Personally my favorite bliss is to find the perfect fish for my fish fry, this time I choose a new fish to me the runner fish. I also selected the classics. yellow perch, and walleye, which all fried up to a lovely golden color in my delicious local Ohio lard. And you know I fried it up in my cast iron pan, I mean we helped build the steel industry in the Midwest. I also had to add my homegrown Ohio potatoes that I cut up very thin, and fried in pork lard. It was a meal for the ages that brought together the old and the new and created a new tradition at home, that was high on value and honored the basic Ohio principal to save your resources for a rainy day. 


I was extremely thankful to my community in "The Park" and how they allowed me to honor my traditions and gave me the opportunity to explore the new and expand my knowledge of what is possible. 



Happy Fall and Happy Fish Fry! 





  • 1 Timothy 6:10
  • The full verse says, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs"

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