Happy Halloween all.\u00a0 Hopefully everyone has their costumes ready to go for a big night of trick-or-treating.\u00a0 Not us though.\u00a0 We kind of gave up on Halloween;\u00a0 Too much of a nuisance.\u00a0 Plus, we’re still on a diet so we can’t have candy around the house, you know.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll give out carrot sticks or something.\u00a0 Actually, we are planning to leave the front door open and the porch light on, and then when kids ring the doorbell the dogs can rush the storm door and scare the crap out of them.\u00a0 We’re going to take some snacks over to the neighbors house and watch out the window and laugh.\u00a0 Come on over, it’ll be a hoot.<\/p>\n
Well we had a pretty busy weekend again.\u00a0 Friday I started things off by going to Kennedy’s with Brice and Martin, for their “grand re-opening<\/a>” event.\u00a0 Personally I’ve never been much on Kennedy’s anyway, and their “temporary” location doesn’t do much for me either.\u00a0 But, what the heck, gotta keep the local shops open.\u00a0 Supposedly they are re-building on their old location, so if that ever actually starts the construction should provide a diversion, as it’s right outside the window from their current spot.\u00a0 (The sorta-historic Kennedy’s burned down<\/a> last winter, if you don’t remember.)\u00a0 We hung out there for a while, and then picked up a pizza (so much for the diet) and met up with the girls at home.\u00a0 I spent the rest of the evening kicking everybody’s butt in dominoes.\u00a0 Nobody was very sure on the rules, but since I won they must have been right.<\/p>\n Saturday we had some friends in from Nebraska, Army buddies of mine from “The Big One of ’91”.\u00a0 Tom and Tammy come up every and then, but the last time Dan and Denise visited us was for our wedding, so they haven’t seen KC in a little while.\u00a0 Since it might be another 15 years before they make it out this way I wanted to do it up right, so I decided to take them to the Brooksider.\u00a0 Spare no expense, I always say.\u00a0 We introduced them to everybody down there, had some delicious chicken wings and nachos for lunch, then hung out watching the Huskers get their weekly beat-down.\u00a0 After that, we hopped a bus down to the Plaza so the girls could take a mercifully short shopping break.\u00a0 When they were done, we took everybody on a short tour of the Plaza, showing them all my favorite spots.\u00a0 Since I don’t really like anywhere on the Plaza, this made for an extremely short tour.\u00a0 My recommended spots consisted of Tomfooleries<\/a> and the ‘Falloon<\/a>, both of which went over pretty well with the group.\u00a0 Actually I had very good tenderloin sandwich at Tomfooleries;\u00a0 I’d even say it was good enough to merit a trip back some day.<\/p>\n Sunday we spent the better part of the day cooking.\u00a0 The Nebraska crew came over for breakfast, so I made a big pot of biscuits and gravy and some fried eggs.\u00a0 (Yeah, the ol’ diet ain’t going so well.)\u00a0 They had to start their trek home around 11:00, and after they left I went to work boiling a chicken.\u00a0 It’s been said that I am easily amused, and to that end I would say that boiling chickens is one of my favorite things to do around the house.\u00a0 There is just a lot of “bang for the buck” out of a boiled bird.\u00a0 You get a couple of quarts of broth that you can do all sorts of amazing things with, especially with soup-weather right around the corner.\u00a0 And, you get a bunch of shredded chicken meat that you can use in countless fascinating scenarios.\u00a0 Case in point, the Martins came over for dinner and voila’,\u00a0 chicken burritos!!!\u00a0 Wow, does the fun ever end at our house?\u00a0 Donette made all kinds of good stuff to go along with the burritos too;\u00a0 beans, salsa, pico de gallo, etc.\u00a0 We cheated and had frozen guacamole though.\u00a0 OK, that’s about all the text I can stretch out of a boiled chicken, I’m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Halloween all.\u00a0 Hopefully everyone has their costumes ready to go for a big night of trick-or-treating.\u00a0 Not us though.\u00a0 We kind of gave up on Halloween;\u00a0 Too much of a nuisance.\u00a0 Plus, we’re still on a diet so we can’t have candy around the house, you know.\u00a0 Maybe we’ll give out carrot sticks or 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