Another short week in the making, nice.\u00a0 Thursday begins the long weekend at the American Royal BBQ, so I took off Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 Let the marathon begin…\u00a0 Now if I can just get through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0 Today has already kicked off with a little car trouble…\u00a0 I guess I left something on in the “truck,” so we woke up to a dead battery this morning.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how long it sits in the garage before we take the trouble to get it jumped;\u00a0 I’m conservatively guessing two weeks, unless we need it to haul stuff around this coming weekend.<\/p>\n
The BBQ activities have already started, actually.\u00a0 Friday I crossed the river and went up to Martin’s house to start prep work for the party.\u00a0 We trimmed up a little meat so we’d be ready to cook the next day;\u00a0 Nearly 160 pounds of brisket and pork butt.\u00a0 Whew, that’s a lot of flesh.\u00a0 Gets a little bigger every year;\u00a0 That doesn’t even count all the ribs, chicken & sausage that we still have to get done.\u00a0 We got it all carved up and seasoned, then I retreated back to the safety of the southlands, stopping by the 810 Zone on the way for some socialization.\u00a0 I went to a guy’s 24th birthday party, just to make myself feel younger.\u00a0 And I supposed it worked, at least until I went home at 8:30 because I was getting tired.<\/p>\n
Saturday I once again crossed the river;\u00a0 Twice in one weekend!\u00a0 Geez that’s more miles than we put on the car in the entire last month.\u00a0 Martin had the smoker fired up and we cooked up all the meat that we had prepped the night before.\u00a0 That pretty much killed the entire day, but it was fun.\u00a0 He put the TV out on the back deck, so we watched college games, and cooked, and…\u00a0 That was it.\u00a0 After everything got cooked, we broke out the trusty food saver and got everything vacuum sealed too;\u00a0 I’d say we are in pretty good shape for a party this Friday.<\/p>\n
Sunday, well, I guess I wasted the entire day again.\u00a0 As I’ve done the last several Sundays, I sat on the couch watching football games that I wasn’t even remotely interested in.\u00a0 Occasionally I would glance out the window and think “Sure looks nice out there, I should probably do something.”\u00a0 But I never did, just sat there and clicked through channels.\u00a0 At least next Sunday is already spoken for with the BBQ, so it won’t be a totally wasted day.\u00a0 (Depending on your definition of a wasted day, naturally.)\u00a0 The highlight of the day was lunch I’d say;\u00a0 Donette whipped up a five-way<\/a> for us, with a few chili dogs for appetizers.\u00a0 That made for a “unique” little diversion in the day, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another short week in the making, nice.\u00a0 Thursday begins the long weekend at the American Royal BBQ, so I took off Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 Let the marathon begin…\u00a0 Now if I can just get through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0 Today has already kicked off with a little car trouble…\u00a0 I guess I left something on […]<\/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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}