Happy Halloween! \u00a0We must be hitting our stride, because the time out here is flying by. \u00a0I swear we were just at a Halloween function not too long ago. \u00a0Must have been about a year ago though. \u00a0Funny how that works. \u00a0We didn’t go to any big parties this year though. \u00a0We were pretty heavily invested in the baseball games, plus I kind of miss just sitting home and passing out candy. \u00a0We did head down to the nearby shopping center to watch our little friend Harper do some trick-or-treating, then headed back home for the big game. \u00a0We put a radio on the front porch and sat out there with Teagan passing out candy, and had just a fine time of it. \u00a0I’d guess we had about 75 kids come by, just by doing some rough math on the candy we got rid of. \u00a0Lots of interest in Teagan, not so much in the baseball game. \u00a0I’m not sure the majority of them even realized what was going on. \u00a0Not a big sports town, good ol’ El Dorado Hills.<\/p>\n
Sunday was very fine day, at least by my standards. \u00a0I kicked it off early with the 6:00 Chiefs game; \u00a0OK that was a little weird. \u00a0First one I’ve got to watch though, so I wanted to catch it. \u00a0After that, I threw some beef ribs on the smoker, more or less just because they were on sale and I wanted to see what would happen. \u00a0As they were cooking along, lo and behold it started raining! \u00a0And rained, and rained, and rained. \u00a0I don’t think they’re going to declare the drought over but it was definitely more rain than we’ve seen all year. \u00a0It came down nice and steady all day. \u00a0Thank goodness for my nice covered patio; \u00a0I just rolled the smoker under it and kept on cooking. \u00a0Aside from a very little bit of landscape work, I spent the whole day watching games on the back patio and cooking the ribs. \u00a0Definitely one of my favorite ways to waste a day. \u00a0(The ribs came out rather marginal if you’re wondering… \u00a0Too fatty and I used too much rub, as usual. \u00a0Eh, gumbo season is upon us, they’ll get eaten.)<\/p>\n\n\t\t