{"id":1589,"date":"2013-12-17T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:27:07","slug":"and-still-more-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/and-still-more-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"And Still More Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent spate of vacation time is continuing, hence my lack of a timely update this week. \u00a0I was busy all day yesterday with more important things, as remarkable as that may sound. \u00a0I&#8217;m still on vacation today, but honestly not so busy. \u00a0We had a pretty laid-back weekend. \u00a0Donette <strong>finally<\/strong> got back from her travels, I&#8217;d been a bachelor for nine long days. \u00a0I picked her up from the airport Saturday, and we spent the rest of the day cuddling on the couch and watching Gone With The Wind.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon we drove back down to Sacramento and met up with our friends <a title=\"Ed and Kim\" href=\"http:\/\/edpaffjr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ed &amp; Kim<\/a>, who were able to come out for a visit. \u00a0We randomly decided on lunch at a place cleverly named &#8220;<a title=\"Burgers &amp; Brew\" href=\"http:\/\/burgersbrew.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burgers &amp; Brew<\/a>,&#8221; which turned out to be a fine choice. \u00a0Myself and Donette were particularly happy with it, there honestly aren&#8217;t a lot of great restaurants around our house and we&#8217;ve been in a state of food withdrawal for a while. \u00a0This place fit the bill very nicely though. \u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t call it exactly fancy, but good and also quite reasonably priced compared to the places around us. \u00a0I would guess we will suck it up and make the horrific 20 minute journey again sometime in the near future. \u00a0After lunch we headed back to our house, then took their little &#8216;uns up the street to the park to enjoy the beautiful weather for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Monday we all headed down to Old Folsom and had a good lunch at <a title=\"Samuel Hornes\" href=\"http:\/\/samhornes.com\/menu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Horne&#8217;s<\/a>. \u00a0It occurred to me that perhaps there actually are some decent places to eat nearby, I just might have to broaden my current 3-mile travel radius a bit. \u00a0That&#8217;s expecting a lot, 3 miles is already triple the area of my circle in KC. \u00a0Quite an inconvenient situation. \u00a0At any rate, we got some more food in us, then they loaded up and headed east to spend a few nights at Tahoe. \u00a0We are hoping to join them in a few days if it works out, we&#8217;re sort of playing it by ear. \u00a0We still haven&#8217;t found a good option for dog-sitting, although we do have somebody who can come by and check on her. \u00a0That might just be the way to go, we&#8217;ll see. \u00a0In the meantime, Donette had brought me back a glorious 13 lb. USDA Prime brisket, so I&#8217;m spending my free time cooking that. \u00a0(Inter-state beef trafficking&#8230;. \u00a0were any laws broken there?) \u00a0Time to show these Californians what&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/smoker-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1588\" alt=\"Brisket time!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/smoker-2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/smoker-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/smoker-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/smoker-2.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brisket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1590\" alt=\"trimmed and rubbed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brisket-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brisket-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brisket-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/brisket.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent spate of vacation time is continuing, hence my lack of a timely update this week. \u00a0I was busy all day yesterday with more important things, as remarkable as that may sound. \u00a0I&#8217;m still on vacation today, but honestly not so busy. \u00a0We had a pretty laid-back weekend. \u00a0Donette finally got back from her [&hellip;]<\/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-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}