{"id":1114,"date":"2011-07-18T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-07-18T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:50:30","slug":"saving-charcoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/saving-charcoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Charcoal"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anybody hasn’t stepped outside for a few days, I’ll save you the trouble;\u00a0 It’s still hot.\u00a0 Despite the lingering heat wave, we enjoyed a bit of semi-outdoor entertainment this weekend though.\u00a0 We kicked off Friday at the ol’ Brooksider.\u00a0 I headed down there directly after work (by way of the house to put some shorts on,) and took up my spot on the patio.\u00a0 It was so hot there wasn’t even a waitress out there for a while, but they opened for business at five.\u00a0 It actually wasn’t that<\/strong> horrible;\u00a0 It’s shaded if you get the right spot, and the fans were moving the air around a bit.\u00a0 After a while Donette and Johan joined me;\u00a0 They’d spent the afternoon at the pool.\u00a0 We hung out down there for a few hours, then headed off to dinner at Cantina del Ray, which was typically tasty.<\/p>\n

Saturday kicked off with doggie class up at Petsmart.\u00a0 After I finally found a parking place, (it’s right next to the new Trader Joe’s, which is still absolutely crazy,) we put in our hour of learnin’.\u00a0 She did a little better than last week, although “lay down” is proving to be a bit of a stumbling block.\u00a0 Who wants to lay down when there are treats flying all over, people walking by, kids wanting to pet you, etc?\u00a0 Sheesh.\u00a0 Matter of fact she never did lay down, not once.\u00a0 Better do our homework this week.\u00a0 After that we loaded up the car and headed <gasp<\/strong>> across the river to hang out at the Martin ranch.\u00a0 I wanted to take Johan to one of our competitions, but that didn’t work out so the next best thing was toss some meat on the smoker and have a little party.\u00a0 Actually, given the weather, I’d say it was a better option;\u00a0 The idea of sitting outside all day was not very appealing.\u00a0 Saved a lot of fuel too;\u00a0 We didn’t have to actually light the smoker, we just set it in the sun and it ran about 250 all day.\u00a0 We threw on two briskets, four slabs of ribs, a handful of chicken wings, and some jalapeno poppers for good measure.\u00a0 It turned into quite the party, good times.\u00a0 As an added bonus, Team Brisket might have actually stumbled across our next “tweak” too;\u00a0 Look for a double-digit finish at the next contest!\u00a0 (As long as there are fewer than 100 teams anyway.)<\/p>\n

Sunday was a bit of a down day.\u00a0 That BBQ took it out of me.\u00a0 Poor little Teagan was shot too, so we didn’t have to worry about entertaining her.\u00a0 I honestly am not sure I’ve ever seen her that tired, she slept all day.\u00a0 Between kids throwing her ball and playing with the Martin’s temp-pup, she was flat worn out.\u00a0 I did drag Johan down to the Brooksider in the afternoon so we both could feign interest in the sporting events of the day.\u00a0 I have to admit I was a little surprised\/dismayed to find the place was absolutely packed with people watching the soccer game.\u00a0 Hey, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but could you do it somewhere else?\u00a0 Luckily the regular crowd was there, (not that “lucky” actually…\u00a0 wasn’t really very surprising at all,) so we had someplace to sit.\u00a0 They had nearly every TV tuned to the soccer game, but they did throw the Royals game on one for us.\u00a0 I will admit, the soccer game was exciting, especially at the end.\u00a0 Passed the day at any rate.\u00a0 For evening entertainment I watched Secretariat<\/a>.\u00a0 While well outside my usual genre, it was a very good flick.\u00a0 I would recommend it to everybody, but then I imagine most have already seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anybody hasn’t stepped outside for a few days, I’ll save you the trouble;\u00a0 It’s still hot.\u00a0 Despite the lingering heat wave, we enjoyed a bit of semi-outdoor entertainment this weekend though.\u00a0 We kicked off Friday at the ol’ Brooksider.\u00a0 I headed down there directly after work (by way of the house to put some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}