I guess Christmas is here! \u00a0Once again we didn’t get the house decorated. \u00a0I’m not sure how many years running that is; \u00a0Too many I’m sure. \u00a0At least this year we discussed it, usually we just totally ignore it. \u00a0I was supposed to put up the tree while Donette was out of town, but I didn’t get it done. \u00a0My rationale was “Why?” \u00a0I was home by myself, we have zero visitors… \u00a0Didn’t make no good sense. \u00a0Maybe next year. \u00a0Or, maybe not.<\/p>\n
We actually had a remarkably busy weekend for once. \u00a0I was on vacation all week, which was quite nice. \u00a0As briefly mentioned last week, our friends Ed & Kim<\/a> were in town; \u00a0Our first official visitors! \u00a0(This, of course, sort of contradicts my earlier statement of “zero visitors.” \u00a0It would have been a good idea to have a tree up for their kids… \u00a0Oops. \u00a0We did walk up and down the street looking at other people’s decorations, close enough.) \u00a0They headed to Tahoe on Monday, then we joined them Wednesday afternoon. \u00a0Donette was a little sick so we almost bailed out, but the rooms were already paid for so we didn’t want to just lose them. \u00a0It worked out well. \u00a0She started feeling better after some sleep, and mostly we just hung around the condo while they skied. \u00a0(Snowboarded, to be more accurate.) \u00a0They reported the conditions a little on the lame side the first few days, but Wednesday night there was a pretty good snowstorm that gave them some white stuff to work with.<\/p>\n We all headed back to El Dorado Hills Friday afternoon, and they had to fly out Saturday morning. \u00a0We didn’t exactly tear up the town while they were here, but for whatever reason we were rather exhausted and spent the vast majority of the day on the couch watching basketball. \u00a0As a matter of fact, that is all we did. \u00a0Sunday was only slightly more productive. \u00a0Donette did a thorough cleaning of the house in an attempt to get rid of any left-over germs from her little bout with the flu (or whatever it was.) \u00a0Meanwhile I hit the gym for a while, or perhaps it hit me. \u00a0After that I did the grocery shopping for our Christmas dinner. \u00a0We elected to go with turkey again, but deep-fried this time. \u00a0I am giving a go to the “dry brine” method this time, mostly out of interest and cheapness. \u00a0For the record, I didn’t want turkey, so it better be good. \u00a0They make an inhouse turducken<\/a> at the grocery down the street, and I was dead-set on grilling one of those. \u00a0Donette was a little skeptical though, and likely with good reason. \u00a0I just wanted to try it more than anything. \u00a0Second on my list was rib roast. \u00a0This one she agreed sounded good, but they’re a little spendy. \u00a0Turkey, on the other hand, is still $1.49 and always a safe bet… \u00a0A reasonable compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I guess Christmas is here! \u00a0Once again we didn’t get the house decorated. \u00a0I’m not sure how many years running that is; \u00a0Too many I’m sure. \u00a0At least this year we discussed it, usually we just totally ignore it. \u00a0I was supposed to put up the tree while Donette was out of town, but I […]<\/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-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}