Well that was an odd vacation. \u00a0As previously referred to, our cruise fell through, so that left us to our own devices for entertainment. \u00a0Having no devices, that translates to precious few options. \u00a0Let’s see… \u00a0I spent a\u00a0prodigious amount of time at various dog entertainment venues around town. \u00a0Fun for Teagan I suppose, and to some extent I enjoy them also. \u00a0She had her first real attempt at swimming; \u00a0I see a doggie-life-vest in her future. \u00a0We rode the motorcycle up to Lexington, MO for a day, mostly just to enjoy the awesome weather. \u00a0We spent more than one afternoon basking in the sun on the patio at the Brooksider. \u00a0I got caught up in the whole March Madness event for once, but effectively lost all interest after Missouri crashed and burned. \u00a0And I think that about covers vacation. \u00a0Gas hit crazy prices right on queue for us, so we really didn’t want to go over a few miles away for anything, limiting our options even further. \u00a0What can ya’ do. \u00a0Our cruise has been rescheduled for late May, we’ll try it again.<\/p>\n
The weekend itself was just sort of tacked on the end of the vacation I guess. \u00a0We got with the Martins to celebrate St. Paddies day and that about covers it. \u00a0Actually the girls did go out and celebrate; \u00a0Chris and I stayed home and slaved over a hot smoker all day so they would have a traditional holiday feast waiting when they got done carousing. \u00a0Ain’t that the way. \u00a0Maybe it wasn’t so traditional of a preparation though. \u00a0Convinced that anything worth eating is better on a smoker, we lit up some coals and prepared the entire meal over some nice hickory smoke. \u00a0I’ve done the corned beef on the smoker before, so I knew that was going to work out. \u00a0The cabbage and potatoes were something of an experiment, with mixed results. \u00a0I was a big fan of the cabbage, it was great. \u00a0We cored it, then stuffed it with butter, italian sausage, and some fresh thyme, then loosely wrapped it in foil and let it go about 4 hours. \u00a0Solid. \u00a0The potatoes we just tossed with oil and salt and put them right on the grate. \u00a0Eh, they were OK. \u00a0Probably should have foiled them also, at least for part of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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