I like to begin my posts with an immediate excuse as to why I’m (still) boring this week. \u00a0Get it out of the way early. \u00a0So, for this week, I’ll quickly throw out the qualifier that I was oncall, so I had to sort of stay close to home base most of the time. \u00a0Friday, case in point, we did one whole lot of nothing. \u00a0And on a holiday to boot, tsk tsk. \u00a0I thought about crossing the county line and bootlegging some firecrackers in, but it seemed they were taking the ban rather seriously so I nixed that idea. \u00a0I really can’t say I saw or heard so much as a single firework go off the entire weekend. \u00a0A little eerie, honestly. \u00a0We did cruise down to check progress on the house, which seemed to be going just swimmingly. \u00a0We’ve got drywall, all taped and mudded, and one layer of stucco on the outside. \u00a0The way it’s going it doesn’t seem like it should take them two more months to finish, but I guess the slow part is coming. \u00a0That was about it for our big Fourth. \u00a0We picked up some tuna steaks at the grocery store and grilled those for dinner. \u00a0Not even a very Fourth-ish kind of meal, but it was on sale and it sounded good. (And, matter of fact, it WAS good.)<\/p>\n
Saturday, determined to leave our circle for at least a short while, we decided to drive up the hill a bit to Placerville and visit Jodar Winery<\/a>. \u00a0This was sort of a random destination, based mostly on location and the fact that they served tasty-sounding food. \u00a0It turned out to be a nice place, we killed the better part of the afternoon there. \u00a0We split an enormous gorgonzola burger and fries, had a glass of wine, and sat in the shade listening to a couple of entertaining guys play harmonica and guitar. \u00a0Cheap entertainment to be sure, which seems to be in short supply around here. \u00a0We stopped by K-Mart on the way home and picked up a kiddy pool for Teagan, and spent the rest of the scorching afternoon playing ball with her in the back yard. \u00a0(Poor girl isn’t smart enough to stop chasing the ball when she gets too hot, but she’ll cool off\u00a0in the pool if it’s there.)<\/p>\n