Ahhhh, finally a relaxing weekend.\u00a0 I needed that.\u00a0 We kicked things off Friday with a fine dinner over at John & Susan’s house.\u00a0 John flew in several dozen assorted kinds of oysters, which I haven’t had in a long time.\u00a0 And, I’ve never actually shucked oysters, so that was an adventure in itself.\u00a0 As if the oysters weren’t enough food, we had a big pot of shrimp, ‘taters & corn to go with it, and Donette made a bowl of shrimp ceviche.\u00a0 The oysters were definitely the stars of the meal, although we had a little trouble finishing them off.\u00a0 They all had to be eaten though, so we did;\u00a0 Not much you can do with leftover oysters.<\/p>\n
Saturday turned into a nice lil’ day.\u00a0 Donette had taken off with a bunch of girls to celebrate our friend Anne’s 50th birthday.\u00a0 The one chore she left me with was to go to the Starlight box office and get some tickets for a few of the summer shows.\u00a0 So, I dutifully headed over there on my motorcycle around 11:00.\u00a0 I got the tickets, and headed back home.\u00a0 It was such a nice day out, I decided to turn left on Holmes and stop by my buddy Wally’s house to see what was going on.\u00a0 Well, he wasn’t home, so I decided to ride on down to the Yamaha dealership and see what was going on there<\/em>.\u00a0 So I headed a little farther south to Martin City, and when I got near the dealership my fuel light came on.\u00a0 At this point, or somewhere near this point, my trip took on sort of a Forrest Gump-like quality.\u00a0 When I got to the dealership, I thought maybe I’d just ride on down to Snead’s and get a tank of gas.\u00a0 And when I got my tank of gas, I thought maybe I’d just keep going a little further on Holmes.\u00a0 And I figured, since I rode this far, maybe I’d just ride all the way to the end of the great street of Holmes.\u00a0 And that’s what I did.\u00a0 For no particular reason, I just kept on going.\u00a0 OK enough Forrest Gump.\u00a0 Anyway, it may be no surprise to anyone else who has lived in the area 40+ years, but Holmes turned into D highway, which ended all the way down at Drexel, Mo.\u00a0 I was kind of wishing I had my Garmin with me, because I wasn’t exactly sure where I was at.\u00a0 (Other than that 71 was somewhere east of me.)\u00a0 I studied on it a while, and enventually decided that, since I wasn’t going anywhere particular, it really wasn’t too important how I got there.\u00a0 Armed with this logic, I headed east, and indeed ended up at 71 highway in the fine town of Archie, population 890.\u00a0 (Salllllllute!)\u00a0 From there I worked my way north-east to Z highway.\u00a0 About that point I noticed, even through my sunglasses, that my arms were getting pretty pinkish where my sleeves were blowing up, so I decided to start working my way back.\u00a0 I headed north, and Z ended at 2 highway, which with my photographic memory I remembered I had passed riding down D.\u00a0 Indeed, it took me right back to D, where I headed north right back home.\u00a0 When I got home I was rather surprised to see my whole loop had been a little over 135 miles.\u00a0 Holy smokes, I had no idea I had gone that<\/em> far.\u00a0 I gave an A+ to the ride, it was fun…\u00a0 With the exception of the ridiculous farmers tan<\/a> I ended up with.\u00a0 It took up a good part of the afternoon too;\u00a0 After that I grilled myself a hamburger and sat on the back porch with Gabe, listening to the Royals get thrashed again.<\/p>\n Sunday I picked up John, and we headed way up north to do some shootin’ at my friend Mark’s house.\u00a0 It was quite a drive (Lathrop, MO) but there sure isn’t anywhere closer I know of that allows random gunfire, so it was worth it.\u00a0 We stood out in his field and killed cans for a while, then it started getting hot so we headed back to the A\/C at the Brooksider to watch the Royals get thrashed.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 After that I headed home for dinner and grilled up some burgers again.\u00a0 I liked the ones I made Saturday night so I wanted Donette to try them out.\u00a0 A rather interesting mixture of burger, blue cheese, and chopped herbs.\u00a0 (The Aerogarden is getting a little wild, everything is getting a good dose of chopped herbs.)\u00a0 Luckily she liked them too;\u00a0 They are<\/em> pretty darn good.\u00a0 So ended the weekend.\u00a0 She was tired from her overnight party with the girls, and my sunburn was still a little uncomfortable, so we settled in at our respective TV’s for an evening of bad programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahhhh, finally a relaxing weekend.\u00a0 I needed that.\u00a0 We kicked things off Friday 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