It’s warming up rapidly here, I think the summer might be a bit much for me. Already hitting the 80’s and it’s early April? Bad sign. I’ll take it for now though. Friday, however, was a bone-chilling high of 62 so we had to retreat indoors for our Friday night date. We met up at Ruff Haus and used our coupons the guy at New Glory gave us last weekend. Can’t beat a quality hotdog for dinner. After that we went home and played the “spot the difference” game on Wii. We are nothing if not easily entertained, I’ll tell you what. We played that silly game for over two hours, culminating in our second highest score. A productive Friday night to be sure.
Saturday it warmed up considerably. Unfortunately we had shopping to do. I took a solo trip down to the grocery and stocked up on a few items, then Donette joined me and we trekked west to the dreaded outlet mall. I’ve never been convinced of the actual deals at the outlets, but at least you can get everything you’re looking for in one spot. We worked in a little exercise too, that’s a heck of a lot of walking. On the way back to the house we stopped at Relish Burger to enjoy the patio for a bit, then rolled on home. If we did anything entertaining that evening, the details escape me at the moment.
Sunday the warming trend continued; We woke to a very pleasant morning. I decided to lace up my new-ish hiking boots and go for a walk, and Teagan was more than eager to join me. We took our standard 3-mile route, but in a rather jarring bout of craziness I decided to walk it in the reverse direction. You can no doubt imagine the excitement this curveball threw into our usually mundane stroll. All in all an uneventful hike, but I do like the trail. It has some great views of the area, and we usually come across some kind of wildlife. This day, for instance, we ran across a big wild turkey. If it didn’t take every bit of both hands to restrain Teagan, I would have liked to get a video of that encounter. I think the stupid bird was taunting her, it just kept running in front of us. Teagan kept looking back at me like “I don’t know what the heck THAT thing is, but it most definitely needs killed.” She wasn’t the same the rest of the walk, she kept diving into the bushes in search of that huge weird thing. After we got home, I fired up the Weber and threw on some ribs. I left them on for 4.5 hours, effectively using up the rest of my day. They came out quite passable, especially considering my usual rib disasters.
Teagan taking a breather at the top of the hill.