{"id":2336,"date":"2015-07-27T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2015-07-27T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:41:59","slug":"a-merry-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/a-merry-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Merry Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geez I can&#8217;t believe it is Monday already. \u00a0Nothing short of depressing. \u00a0The busier the weekend, the faster it goes by it seems. \u00a0Sort of makes sense when I think about that statement, I suppose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Donette&#8217;s younger sister Victoria came out and visited us for a quick weekend trip. \u00a0She came in Friday, and we started things off by going to a wine tasting party over at a friend&#8217;s house. \u00a0This likely sounds like we&#8217;re getting into the hoity-toity California way of things, but such is not the case. \u00a0It was just a nice little dinner gathering, and apparently they felt the need to have a theme. \u00a0It was a good time. \u00a0We all got scorecards and rated each wine 1-5; \u00a0added to the conversation opportunity if nothing else. \u00a0As an added bonus, our wine won crowd favorite, woot! \u00a0I believe it was an estate zin from one of our favorites out here, <a href=\"http:\/\/mtvernonwinery.com\/tastings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Vernon<\/a>. \u00a0I was a bit upset with sharing it, but that was offset by winning a gift card. \u00a0All good in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was a hopeless waste of a day, spent sitting at my pc working. \u00a0Unfortunate overlap of scheduling since we had company, but that&#8217;s the way it goes I guess. \u00a0The girls left me to my misery and went out to a few wineries for the afternoon. \u00a0After that they hung out on the back porch and watched taped episodes of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fyi.tv\/shows\/tiny-house-nation\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny House Nation<\/a>&#8221; while I kept working. \u00a0Thanks for flying six hours to see us, we&#8217;re a hoot!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday we had a river tubing expedition on the calendar, but it&#8217;s been rather oppressively hot here so we bailed out of that and headed up the hill to Tahoe. \u00a0The hour and a half drive gets you 20 degrees knocked off the temp, well worth the time. \u00a0We didn&#8217;t do a whole lot when we got there really. \u00a0We met up with our friends Michael and Alaina, who had stayed the night before, and ate a solid breakfast at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhutcafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hut<\/a>, after waiting an hour for a table. \u00a0After that we just kind of kicked around the town for a while. \u00a0(A while too long, according to the parking ticket we got. \u00a0Arggghhh.) \u00a0I made the rookie mistake of misjudging the cool weather and burned my bald head, but it was fine afternoon all the same. \u00a0Afterwards we rolled back down the hill to the heatwave, and did a little grilling. \u00a0Victoria had picked up a fresh salmon in Seattle on her way, and it was delicious. \u00a0I think I can declare it the best piece of fish I&#8217;ve ever eaten. \u00a0I usually try and pick up the high-rent salmon when it&#8217;s in season at our local grocery here, and have never really been that impressed. \u00a0THIS stuff was awesome though. \u00a0Got to go all the way to the source I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to upload my Tahoe pictures. \u00a0I&#8217;ll share the weekly forecast instead. \u00a0My family is coming out next week, bet they can&#8217;t wait for this!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2337\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/weather_report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2337\" class=\" wp-image-2337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/weather_report-300x77.png\" alt=\"Scorcher\" width=\"413\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/weather_report-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/weather_report-150x39.png 150w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/weather_report.png 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scorcher<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geez I can&#8217;t believe it is Monday already. \u00a0Nothing short of depressing. \u00a0The busier the weekend, the faster it goes by it seems. \u00a0Sort of makes sense when I think about that statement, I suppose&#8230; 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