{"id":5838,"date":"2023-10-23T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:58:14","slug":"almost-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/almost-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMOST Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh man, the weather really wants to go to full-on Fall season here.  Just can&#8217;t quite get over the hump.  Sunday was definitely in the season, rainy all day and barely broke 60.  Then this week it&#8217;s back to the upper 70&#8217;s with full sun.  Hey, nothing wrong with that either.  As long as it&#8217;s not snowing, it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weekend was unacceptably marred by work.  It happens.  I&#8217;ve yet to convince management that I cannot be spending nights in the datacenter instead of hitting the town in search of blog material.  I don&#8217;t really understand this mindset, but seem forced to comply.  Robbed of my Saturday, I did have a fairly entertaining Friday.  We went to our neighborhood haunt Bones for lunch.  Haven&#8217;t been there in a few weeks, so it was good to see &#8220;the crowd&#8221; again.  We don&#8217;t usually eat there either, as it&#8217;s gotten so expensive.  Not expensive in the &#8220;costs more than everywhere else&#8221; kind of way, just in the &#8220;everything is expensive anymore&#8221; kind of way.  Apparently I whined too much about the insane cost of adding bacon to my burger and they threw some in for free though, so that was nice.  ($3.50 to add a few strips of bacon?!?!  C&#8217;mon man.)  After that tasty meal, we finished up the workday at home and then went to an open house our realtor was throwing at nearby <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/saureelvineyards.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/saureelvineyards.com\" target=\"_blank\">Saureel Vineyard<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/saureelvineyards.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/saureelvineyards.com\">s<\/a>.  We&#8217;d never been there, and it was a fantastic property.  We need to make it a point to go back there sometime and check out their wines.  Had a great time though, lots of food and a guy singing who was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday we went out to a late breakfast with some friends, then it was back to the house for a day of watching football.  It didn&#8217;t feel like so much of a wasted day like usual, since it was raining and cold out anyway.  Donette made some great beef stew to enjoy during the night game, which hit the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll throw in another random &#8220;product review&#8221; since I don&#8217;t have much else to go on.  I recently broke down and bought a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vortexbbq.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vortexbbq.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vortex<\/a> setup for my Weber grill.  I&#8217;ve been going back and forth on if I really needed one, and as usual finally came to the inescapable conclusion that yes, there was really no way I could continue life without one.  I&#8217;ve used it twice so far, both times in the &#8220;indirect-direct&#8221; setup described on their site.  (Whatever that means; Doesn&#8217;t really make sense.)  I made chicken legs both times, and both times they came out great.  Smoky, crispy, and they get done fast.  I want to do wings in the same fashion, but when legs are usually 1\/5 the price of wings I&#8217;m gonna go drummies every time.  The main reason I got it is to do ribs in the same setup, but I haven&#8217;t had a chance to try that yet.  Supposedly you can cook a slab of ribs in about an hour;  This I gotta see.  I also want to sear a steak over it, as it gets crazy hot in the middle.  Overall, I&#8217;ll give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars.  Half star ding for the price.  Yeah it works great, just like everyone says.  But I can&#8217;t shake the feeling that $40 is a little exorbitant for a metal cone.  A lot of people make their own, but nah.  Guess I ain&#8217;t THAT put off by the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, the weather really wants to go to full-on Fall season here. Just can&#8217;t quite get over the hump. Sunday was definitely in the season, rainy all day and barely broke 60. Then this week it&#8217;s back to the upper 70&#8217;s with full sun. Hey, nothing wrong with that either. 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