I think Winter is going to be here a bit sooner than I would prefer.\u00a0 My morning scooter commutes are starting to get just a bit nippy.\u00a0 But, since we only have one car these days, and Donette is working two whole days a weeks, my alternate transportation methods are somewhat limited.\u00a0 I try to wait until the sun is out and the temperature is at least 40, but that doesn’t always work out.\u00a0 So, I wear lots and lots of clothes.\u00a0 Flannel-lined pants, double jackets, heavy gloves, etc.\u00a0 I am worried that all those bulky clothes are going to detract from my “coolness” factor though.\u00a0 That would be pretty hard, because nothing exudes coolness quite like an old fat guy on a scooter, but the thought has entered my mind none the less.\u00a0 Maybe I should get a big snow suit or something?<\/p>\n
We finally had a “down” weekend; Not much going on.\u00a0 Friday night was a total wash.\u00a0 I messed around with my PC’s a bit, with half an eye on some television show or another, and next thing I knew it was too late to go anywhere.\u00a0 (Which is like 7:00 in my book.)\u00a0 So, we built a cozy little fire in the back yard fire pit, broke out a cigar, (me, not Donette) and called it a quiet night at home.\u00a0 Not so bad;\u00a0 Rather relaxing actually.<\/p>\n
Saturday was somewhat more eventful, if not as busy as our recent weekends.\u00a0 The first project of the day was laying some sod in the back yard.\u00a0 Since the addition of the second dog to the house, the yard has taken an absolute beating.\u00a0 I think most of the damage is just from their constant game of “chase,” although Belle’s mysterious penchant for digging random holes doesn’t help matters either.\u00a0 Donette and Ronda tilled everything up last Spring and put down a bunch of seed. It tried to grow, but never really stood a chance against the galloping mooses.\u00a0 By mid-summer, despite constant watering and fertilizing, our once-green lawn looked like this<\/a>.\u00a0 Yeah, the seed project didn’t work out so well.\u00a0 So, for our second attempt, we decided to try some sod.\u00a0 Donette ordered a load of 100% fescue from the Grasspad.\u00a0 That crap is just this side of a noxious weed, but it’s supposed to hold up good under heavy traffic.\u00a0 (Which we have…)\u00a0 I recruited a buddy of mine from work to help, and we got started pretty early in the morning.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a mere hour or two later, we discovered we had grossly underestimated the amount of sod needed.\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 Oh well, the part we got done looks better<\/a>, for the time being at least.\u00a0 The entire time we were working, Gabe was sitting in the corner<\/a> thinking “FOOL, that stuff doesn’t stand a chance.”\u00a0 We shall see.\u00a0 Anyway, I was at something of a crossroads at this point in the day.\u00a0 I’d planned on an entire day of yard work, and here it was noon and I had nothing left to do.\u00a0 Luckily Zim called right about this time, and wanted to meet up at the Brooksider to watch some football.\u00a0 Whew, just in the nick of time, saved from an otherwise productive afternoon.\u00a0 Indeed, that pretty much killed the rest of my day.\u00a0 We sat down there all afternoon, then I bailed back home to watch the MU game in the safety and relative calm of my own house.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Donette went out with a bunch of friends for a “girls night out.”\u00a0 I think they went to La Bodega or something like that.\u00a0 I’m sure they didn’t have any fun without their men around though.<\/p>\n The first thing we discovered Sunday morning is that dogs do not observe daylight savings time.\u00a0 We thought we were ahead of the game when we set all our clocks back before we went to bed Saturday night.\u00a0 It was a flawless plan, and should have resulted in an extra hour of sleep.\u00a0 Alas, the pups have it in their simple little heads that breakfast is served at 6:00, which was 5:00 on this particular day.\u00a0 It is a total waste of time to try and convince them to go back to bed for another hour too;\u00a0 They will not be ignored.\u00a0 So, we had an unusually early start to our Sunday.\u00a0 (I’m not really sure how we’re going to get their clocks reset actually;\u00a0 The same thing happened this morning.)\u00a0 I had lots of time to kill before football started, so I went to the gym and then stopped by the grocery store and got stuff for a pot of gumbo.\u00a0 The gumbo came out pretty mediocre.\u00a0 My roux didn’t get dark enough, and it was downhill from there.\u00a0 I don’t know what happened, I stirred that stupid stuff for an hour and it still didn’t get dark enough.\u00a0 I used peanut oil instead of veggie oil;\u00a0 Is it possible that you can’t make a good roux out of peanut oil?\u00a0 Very mysterious.\u00a0 Anyway, the rest of Sunday was spent watching football and eating mediocre gumbo.\u00a0 All-in-all a rather poor day;\u00a0 Marginal food and I got beat by a stupid girl in Fantasy Football again.\u00a0 Dang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think Winter is going to be here a bit sooner than I would prefer.\u00a0 My morning scooter commutes are starting to get just a bit nippy.\u00a0 But, since we only have one car these days, and Donette is working two whole days a weeks, my alternate transportation methods are somewhat limited.\u00a0 I try to […]<\/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-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}