{"id":156,"date":"2006-08-21T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2006-08-21T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T15:55:17","slug":"a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a whole lot happened last weekend, which was just fine by me.\u00a0 Friday I met up with Todd, Martin, and KB down at the Brooksider to celebrate the double-digit temperature.\u00a0 It was warm, sure, but not TOO warm.\u00a0 Tolerable.\u00a0 I only stayed until 6:00 or so though;\u00a0 It was my oncall weekend again so I needed my rest.\u00a0 The remainder of the day, predictably, was spent watching television and playing a little fetch with Gabe.\u00a0 Oh, and speaking of Gabe, I forgot to mention last week that he passed his Canine Good Citizen<\/a> class again.\u00a0 Yeah, he already took (and passed) the test once, but a little tune-up never hurts.\u00a0 Passing twice qualifies him for the rare and coveted “Canine Super-Duper-Extra-Good Citizen” status.\u00a0 He celebrated his accomplishment by tearing up Donette’s day-planner and terrorizing Kane (the cat) all week.\u00a0 They didn’t cover either of those topics in class apparently.<\/p>\n

Saturday I got up and took Gabe for his walk, and then made the drive to visit Mom down by the Arkansas border.\u00a0 Her PC was minorly messed up, so I got it fixed up (I hope) and then ate a tasty lasagne lunch.\u00a0 Homemade, not even the frozen stuff like we make at our house.\u00a0 After that, I did a little grocery shopping, and then I’m not entirely sure where the rest of the afternoon went.\u00a0 We went to a wine tasting around 6:00 down at Cellar & Loft<\/a> in Brookside.\u00a0 We didn’t go so much for the wine tasting (that place is a little high fallootin’ for me… more Todd’s style) but to talk to this guy whose dog we are lightly considering taking in.\u00a0 Donette met him last weekend at the tasting, and then we went and met his pup “Belle” on Monday.\u00a0 I would describe young Belle as… “energetic.”\u00a0 Yeah, that’s a nice adjective.\u00a0 A common phrase beginning with “ram” also comes to mind, but we’ll stick with “energetic.”\u00a0 At any rate, the guy wasn’t there so no progress on the new dog.\u00a0 After that social event, we met up with the Martins at Starlight for the production of “Rent.”\u00a0 You never know when children might be reading this, so I shall eschew the barrage of expletives that come to mind and just say that I didn’t care for the show.\u00a0 Loud, confusing, pointless, and the girl in front of me kept flipping her hair on my leg.\u00a0 Not to mention, I thought they were having prime rib for dinner and it turned out to be flank steak.\u00a0 I don’t even LIKE flank steak, as evidenced by my two enormous helpings.<\/p>\n

Sunday I started the day by hitting the gym, for the third time in the week.\u00a0 That’s almost a routine!!!\u00a0 Unfortunately since I’ll be out of town next weekend it will be a short-lived routine.\u00a0 After that I went home and fired up the smoker to cook some spareribs for dinner.\u00a0 The ribs were a bit of a sore subject;\u00a0 I picked them up at Price Chopper, against my better judgement, because they were on sale.\u00a0 I got home and unwrapped them, and they were friggin’ half slabs.\u00a0 Not only that, but just the large end to boot.\u00a0 Crap.\u00a0 Get what you pay for, I guess.\u00a0 But I couldn’t really just throw them out, so I gave them some dry rub and threw them on.\u00a0 Todd came over around 2:00 and threw a few chickens on too.\u00a0 While the flesh was cooking, I got out the food processer and made a basil-arugula pesto recipe I’d been wanting to try; not half bad.\u00a0 All that cooking pretty much took up the entire afternoon.\u00a0 Donette, meanwhile, was researching dessert recipes to enter for the ARB contest.\u00a0 Ed, Kim, Susan and John (Susan’s beau of late) came over for dinner and helped with the taste-testing.\u00a0 She made like four different styles of bread pudding, all them pretty darn good, most involving grilled or toasted bread soaked in cream, topped with fruit and stuff.\u00a0 That was pretty much a night-killer for me.\u00a0 Four plates of rich desserts after a barbecue dinner is a little much, even for a glutton of my magnitude.\u00a0 We managed to get through the Entourage showing, and that was IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a whole lot happened last weekend, which was just fine by me.\u00a0 Friday I met up with Todd, Martin, and KB down at the Brooksider to celebrate the double-digit temperature.\u00a0 It was warm, sure, but not TOO warm.\u00a0 Tolerable.\u00a0 I only stayed until 6:00 or so though;\u00a0 It was my oncall weekend again so […]<\/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-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}