Now THAT was a nice weekend, weather-wise if nothing else.  It was relatively entertaining also;  I’d say we made the most of it all around.  I even had the good fortune to have Friday off as a bonus.  Score!  It was a long week at work, so we didn’t really do much with Friday afternoon except wind down.  Went to the gym all day…  Which is to say we laid out at the pool all afternoon.  For dinner we traveled south out to Munkirs house.  It wasn’t as far as I remembered;  We took the dog to boarding, gassed up the car, packed some snacks and a change of clothes, and we were there before I knew it.  Last time we went out there we had to spend the night at a hotel somewhere in Overland Park;  This time we drove it straight through.  It was worth the drive though;  Grilled Kebabs and ‘tators, right up our alley.  For after-dinner entertainment we played some kind of card game.  I did a few seconds of research on Google and I can’t find it to provide a descriptive link though.  I think Janene may have made it up on the spot.  It was fun but I didn’t win, so I will never play it again.

Saturday I got up sorta early and got the yard mowed.  There is something horribly wrong with having to mow the lawn once a week in the middle of August.  Very unnatural.  After knocking that out, we had to go out and do a little shopping.  For the first time in my 43 years, I am going to some kind of event that necessitates a jacket.  Having never attended such an event, it stands to reason that I have never owned a “jacket.”  Well, after six or seven hours of arduous shopping, now I do.  I didn’t have much trouble finding something I liked, but it did take a little time to pare down the selections to something, errr, in my price range.  Actually I never did find something in my “price range,” but I settled on one anyway.  It was, quite literally, the cheapest one in the store, and I wasn’t going to drive all over the city trying to save $10 somewhere else.  And I do rather fancy it…  Just had a little sticker shock going on.  I had it in my head that a jacket should be, well, 1/2 the price of a suit.  Reasonable assumption, since it is 1/2 a suit.  Not so much;  They are roughly the same price.  Scam!!!  Oh well, now I have one.  Somewhat traumatized by this experience, we headed down to the Brooksider to enjoy the weather out on the deck.  Hung out down there a while, went home and grilled some burgers for dinner, and called it a day.

Sunday Donette got up and went to the gym with Susan, and I spent my day on a long motorcycle ride.  I met up with my friend Troy and a friend of his around 10:00, and we headed up to Weston to kick around a bit.  Did a little antiquing, poked around some craft shops, and had a tasty lunch at O’Malley’s.  (We really did have lunch at O’Malley’s.)  After Weston, we headed… ummmm, out of town, and, errr, went a different direction, and ended up at Lake Perry in Kansas.  OK, I am a bit directionally challenged.  I was good with Weston, but got a little turned around after that.  No matter, Troy was in charge of directions, I just enjoyed the ride.  We went through all kinds of little towns, checked out a few Civil War “historical markers” and pretty much took advantage of the fine, fine weather.  I put just over 200 miles on my bike over the day;  Good times.  Donette, meanwhile, was up in Liberty visiting with long-lost Todd, who was in town for his parents 50th wedding anniversary.  I likely would have re-scheduled my ride and gone up there also, but apparently he had forgotten to mention he was in town.  Sigh.