On Saturday my buddy Hank and I met up for our annual Georgia Tech baseball game, the last in our tradition as Hank is moving later this year. While the game was fun, including inadvertently making a woman in the row ahead of us bust out laughing after I shouted “It hit him in the hoo-ha!” when the pitcher was hit by a batted ball, I think our baseball excitement was eclipsed when Charles Barkley walked into Eleventh Street Pub while we were sitting at the bar.
Wordle: five, my starter was LOUSE. It was going to be LOUSY, but yesterday’s solution was an adjective ending in Y, and I don’t think they’d do that on successive days.
Wordle in 5, yesterday in 3 and Saturday in 2!
So Friday, after returning from my ride, I was able to locate the carb adjusting tool set and got the weed wacker tuned properly. I did both sides of the driveway before I ran out of gas. Saturday was more choring followed by watching cross country day from Rolex in Kentucky.
Sunday, we drove to the Calloway Gardens Country Store for a rather mediocre breakfast that took entirely too long, then scoped out campsites at FDR for a weekend retreat coming up.
21 miles yesterday and felt like I could have easily ridden more. I like that.
-FP
I should have ridden yesterday, but didn’t. I need to ride more before BRAG.
But if you had just worn the boots, you wouldn’t have needed the weed wacker! 🙂
how cool to see Charles Barkley – he didn’t buy the whole bar a drink? 😉
We should have done a real bike ride yesterday – but instead did the Wheelhopper Spring Dress ride around town – it was a whole 9 miles, with 4 beer stops before ending at Rocky Mountain Pizza.
Nope, Sir Charles didn’t not make any offers.
Rocky Mountain Pizza? I haven’t been there for years! I think the last time I was there is was either a hash ending, or an Urban Explorers meetup/ending.
I’ve now seen Bo Jackson and Charles Barkley in the wild. I’m only missing Frank Thomas to complete the Auburn set!
what else did we do this weekend –
Friday night I did nothing, it ended up storming, so it was good to just stay home.
Slept in Saturday, until like 0900am, that never happens.
We did see 2 possums in the yard Saturday mid morning – that was pretty wild, thought they were more a nighttime animal.
Decided it was too wet to mtn bike, the streets were pretty wet to road ride, so went for a fairly long walk for lunch – down towards the Marietta Square – to Los Toras Locos. Its a chain, its been years & years since I’ve been to one, last time was when I had my old CRV at Peach Auto for an oil change in Doraville, so I walked to one.
Sally joined up – it ended up being 5.5 miles or so.
I meant to go to Red’s Beer Garden yesterday, but decided not to do so.
On Friday I walked to The Albert in Inman Park and met up with Hank and Chip for beers.
How was The Albert on a Friday night? I find that afternoons there are fine but evenings are…really noisy and crowded. Rowdy.
Evenings? You have me confused with someone else. 🙂 I was there from 3pm until about 6pm, when I walked home. I love this time of year because I can walk places when it’s not incredibly hot, and home before it gets too dark.
A man after my own heart.
When the streetlights come on? (that was me when I was a kid).
Pretty good weekend. It was Inman Park Festival so we steered clear of that craziness. Saturday we went to get mani-pedis and then Pure for lunch. In the evening we went up to Buckhead for Finn’s Buddy Baseball game. It just goes to show how much money is in Buckhead because someone brought in Blooper from the Braves, which was a huge treat for all the kids, Finn was over the moon. He doesn’t give a hoot about MLB baseball really but he likes to run the bases and he likes mascots. Needless to say I had my wine Yeti in full force. We didn’t get home until 10:30 and I was dead.
Yesterday Kevin took himself off to Moe’s & Joe’s and I did laundry, made a soup (kielbasa, kale, and barley) and a lasagna casserole. It’s basically all the components of lasagna but mixed together in a casserole so it takes half the time. Still takes a good hour and a half, but that’s less than lasagna.
I bet Blooper was a HUGE hit for the kids.
I make lasagna now with fresh raviolis, so as I think about it – its like a casserole.
Lasagna with ravioli, that is just craziness there.
saves SOOOOOO much time (to me)
Do you boil them first? That would be longer for me because I use no-boil noodles. Once I get to the stacking part of the recipe it’s super quick.
no precooking the fresh raviolis – I like the spinach filled ones – makes me pretend it’s healthy.
just lay them out in a layer like you would the no boil noodles
Home from a very long morning about which you will read tomorrow l
The mulberries in WLF’s mulberry tree must be ripe because the tree is full of birds today. They and the squirrels are the beneficiaries of the tree’s fruit since the branches are waaaaaay to high for me to get any.