OK enough with the rain already…\u00a0 I assume I brought this scourge on the city by deciding to ride a scooter to work.\u00a0 At the current rate of precipitation I’ll get to ride to work like 4 days this year.<\/p>\n
Whew that made two busy weekends in a row, save Friday. All we did Friday was stop by the Brooksider to say a quick “happy weekend” to everybody and then went home and shut down.\u00a0 I went oncall so I had to spend an evening hunkered down in the dark sulking; it helps me get adjusted to the odd hours.<\/p>\n
Saturday we got up relatively early and took the dogs on a nice long walk. \u00a0They like the exercise and I doubt it hurts us any either.\u00a0 After that I took my bicycle up to a shop in Waldo to get it worked on, in preparation for my good intentions of riding again this summer.\u00a0 This marked the first time, literally, that the bike has been off the garage wall since the ill-fated Katy Trail ride of ’05.\u00a0\u00a0It still has like 2 lbs. of gravel dust caked on it as evidence of this, which might have something to do with why it doesn’t quite shift right.\u00a0 I’m supposed to pick it back up today, hopefully they got it all working again.\u00a0 For afternoon entertainment, we put our helmets on and went for a little ride.\u00a0 We were a little nervous about the weather, but after keeping an eye on things for a while we decided it was going to stay dry so we rode all the way out to Mom’s house, by way of Y highway.\u00a0 We visited a while and had a tasty lunch, and then rode back a slightly different route.\u00a0 I’m for the weekend rides; it was a good time.\u00a0 Relaxing even.\u00a0 Kind of looking forward to the end of the 20 mph wind season though.\u00a0 Donette went home after that, and I rode over to Brice’s house and had a few of the ribs they were smoking up.\u00a0 BBQ season is officially OPEN!\u00a0\u00a0 We didn’t do much that night, sat around at home and watched the Jayhawks get thrashed.\u00a0 I was a bit sad to see them lose, but that was easily compensated for by the knowledge that their “fans” or whatever they call themselves will be blissfully absent from the area until next year.<\/p>\n
Sunday we started out the same way, with a good long dog walk.\u00a0 According to Caesar Milan this is the surefire route to happy, healthy dogs, so we need a lot of walking.\u00a0 Then we put the kids down for a nap and took the scooter up to the recently relocated Jake Edwards BBQ.\u00a0 It earned a “mediocre” rating I would say.\u00a0 Not too bad but I doubt we go back any time soon.\u00a0 We had the burnt ends and sausage;\u00a0 The burnt ends were decent but not smoky enough for me, and neither of us liked the sausage at all.\u00a0 The sauce was good, the beans livable, and the fries passable.\u00a0 However, when you factor in that everything was a buck or two overpriced, it knocked the rating down even further. \u00a0After that we took our full bellies home and went on a bit of an outdoor spring cleaning binge.\u00a0 I got the blower fired up and blew all the crap off the back patio, we drug out the chairs and associated patio furniture, and washed the motorcycle and scooter as a bonus.\u00a0 Then, inspired by the ribs at Brice’s house the day before, I fired up the smoker.\u00a0 Todd and the Martin’s came over and we threw some chicken breasts and wings on, since that was all we really had time to cook.\u00a0 We drug the TV out on the patio and watched North Carolina get beat while the chicken cooked.\u00a0 The wings came out pretty darn good;\u00a0 Martin may have given new life to the quest for the perfect smoked chicken wings.\u00a0 The breasts were just OK…\u00a0 I wonder if the sauce I slathered them in blocked the smoke or something.\u00a0 Oh well, we were just enjoying the weather more than anything, I don’t think anybody was even hungry.<\/p>\n
As a side note, I realize that the “weekly poll” excludes like 50% of the site’s dozen or so readers.\u00a0 It was a request though, what can I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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