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We managed to get out of the house a bit more this weekend than last. \u00a0Friday I got back into my regularly scheduled Brooksider visit, but didn’t stay long. \u00a0Had to go pick up the dog from doggy day care, you know. \u00a0Sigh. \u00a0The life of a responsible parent is not always an easy one. \u00a0We headed back home and settled in for a night of TV, but when Donette got home from another week in Chicago she wanted to go back out for some dinner. \u00a0After some minor negotiating we decided on Mike’s Tavern<\/a> down at 55th and Troost. \u00a0I leave their parking lot on Mondays for a weekly bicycle ride, but I’d never actually set foot in the place before. \u00a0It’s long been on our list of places to try though, especially since one of our neighborhood\u00a0Mexican restaurants (Cantina Del Ray) closed down and took their menu there. \u00a0As we sort of expected, the place was pretty crowded, mostly with college-age kids from UMKC watching the baseball game. \u00a0The food was very good, and very inexpensive; \u00a0If it wasn’t a whole three miles away from the house I’m sure we would frequent it for dinner. \u00a0The waitress cautioned me that the chile relleno I ordered was different than the one they served at Cantina Del Ray but I got it anyway, and it was delicious. \u00a0Donette had her favorite from the old restaurant, the carne asada enchiladas, and reported them just as good.<\/p>\n

Saturday we took care of a few outstanding chores in preparation for the rapidly approaching winter. \u00a0I ran the scooter up to the shop for some scheduled maintenance, and they said they could finish it the same day so we headed over to Maloney’s<\/a> for some lunch. \u00a0This is one of a very small handful of places I will eat at across the state line, and then only because it has the same owners as the Brooksider. \u00a0We had a solid lunch there, and hung out watching some football, but the scoot still wasn’t done so we headed on home. \u00a0Since it was so nice out we decided we might as well take care of the motorcycle too, so Donette found a storage unit out south and we ran the bike out there along with a small number of boxes from the basement. \u00a0By the time we finished with all the extra paperwork on the unit (I sort of got the feeling they weren’t too keen on the motorcycle being in there) the scooter was ready, so we went out and picked it up and headed home for a night of movies.<\/p>\n

Sunday we started our day with a rather heavy brunch down at Harvey’s<\/a>. \u00a0We bought a groupon quite a while back but every time we’d tried to use it the line was too long. \u00a0We hit it just right Sunday morning though; \u00a0No wait for a table and the food lines were short too. \u00a0I’m don’t remember what we paid for the groupon but we definitely got our money’s worth. \u00a0We stayed for quite some time seeing how many different things we could try. \u00a0It was all very good; \u00a0We might hit it again sometime, although it’s a bit pricey for our regular rotation. \u00a0Then again, given the fact we might not have to eat for the next two days it might be worth the price. \u00a0The weather was perfect out again, so when we got home I put Teagan in the car and headed out for the park over at Swope. \u00a0This was the first time we’d been there when there was a crowd, apparently the weather brought everybody out. \u00a0Teagan’s not there for the social aspect though; \u00a0She is there to play ball and nothing else. \u00a0She immediately laid claim to a stray tennis ball, and it was game on. \u00a0We played fetch for a good hour or so, which was probably a bit too long. \u00a0Poor lil’ pup was so exhausted she could hardly breath. \u00a0I finally caught on that she was a few tosses past done and took her over to the “break area” for a drink. \u00a0And, as she tends to do, she tried to drink the entire park dry as fast as she could. \u00a0I told her no more water, but of course all the nearby do-gooders insisted she needed more, so I stepped back and let her chug. \u00a0Predictably, she lapped up all she could, took a few steps back, and barfed up about a gallon of water, grass, leaves, and half-digested dog food. \u00a0And yeah, you know what happened next; \u00a0It was like somebody rang the dinner bell at some grotesque buffet. \u00a0As all the horrified owners tried to pull their dogs out of the mess, Teagan and I decided it was time to go and discreetly took our leave. \u00a0Maybe we’ll go to Penn Valley next time and hope nobody recognizes us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We managed to get out of the house a bit more this weekend than last. \u00a0Friday I got back into my regularly scheduled Brooksider visit, but didn’t stay long. \u00a0Had to go pick up the dog from doggy day care, you know. \u00a0Sigh. \u00a0The life of a responsible parent is not always an easy one. […]<\/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-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}