We got back to our regularly scheduled “nothing” this past weekend.\u00a0 For that I am thankful.\u00a0 I just can’t keep the pace in my old age.\u00a0 I might have taken it to the extreme though, I was very nearly bored.\u00a0 Not quite though.\u00a0 Friday night we just hung out on the back patio and watched a movie, which was nice.\u00a0 I believe “Snatched” was the selection if I remember correctly.\u00a0 Eh, it was OK.\u00a0 The list of movies we can both tolerate at the same time is a very short one, so at least it passed that test.\u00a0 And of course the dogs were happy to have us around, or at least they didn’t run around tearing up the furniture like they do when we’re gone.<\/p>\n
Saturday we went to Amador to pick up a wine shipment.\u00a0 They’ve been sending us increasingly hostile emails about picking up our 3-month-old shipment.\u00a0 Geez people, lighten up, we’re extremely busy people.\u00a0 It was really kind of a nuisance because it’s so flipping hot out and I didn’t feel like driving, but we headed out anyway.\u00a0 We dropped the top on the convertible and blasted the air and I would say made the best of it.\u00a0 On the way we stopped in Plymouth at one of our favorite spots of late, Marlene & Glen\u2019s Diner.\u00a0 This place is definitely a “diner,” or “greasy spoon” if you prefer.\u00a0 It’s hard to find a place like that around here, so it’s a nice change of pace now and then.\u00a0 I had a pretty awesome chicken philly sandwich, and Donette enjoyed a huge green chili burger.\u00a0 We’ve only been there twice but have been more than happy both times;\u00a0 It’s definitely on our “list.”\u00a0 From there we went on to Wilderotter Winery to pick up our shipment.\u00a0 We weren’t really feeling “wine” and planned to just pick up and bolt,\u00a0 but as it happened they were doing a special vertical tasting of their Syrah.\u00a0 Being the highly sophisticated wine connoisseurs that we are, we know you just never pass up a vertical, so we pulled up a chair and enjoyed a few sips.\u00a0 We are so fancy.\u00a0 For dinner we went over to a friends house and enjoyed a tri tip dinner.\u00a0 They’d picked up the meat at a local butcher shop we’ve always wanted to try, and now I know I really need to get there.\u00a0 It was just far and away above the grocery store offerings, even my beloved Nugget.\u00a0 After dinner we actually watched two entire movies.\u00a0 I mention that only because of the unusual occurrence that I did not fall asleep.<\/p>\n
Last night we went on something of a “date night.”\u00a0 Yeah, I guess you can call it that.\u00a0 We went to dinner at Pete’s (based solely on proximity to the movie theater,) then headed to the early showing of “Jurassic World.”\u00a0 I can say with some confidence that I saw more movies this past weekend than I’ve seen in the past three months.\u00a0 This was probably my favorite of the four, recommended.<\/p>\n\n\t\t