We at least made some kind of effort to leave the house over the last few days, despite the stifling heat.  Friday wasn’t really by choice though, I had to go pick up Donette at the airport.  She was coming back from two weeks of traveling, which we (I, at least) decided was far too long.  Since we don’t get all the way to Sacramento often, we decided to eat dinner while we were down there.  Through a random google search we ended up at Fat City in the Old Sacramento district.  We had minor trouble finding a parking place, which is about par for the course every time we’ve been downtown, but once we found a spot it turned out to be a pretty fun, walkable area.  Before we went into the restaurant we strolled around for a bit, and saw several more places to put on our “to visit” list.  We had a decent dinner, if not outstanding.  The building itself was as cool as anything, and they had a way-old, elaborate wooden bar and lots of stained glass to check out while we were eating.

Saturday we headed down and checked on the house project, which appeared to be coming along just swimmingly.  We’ve got a bit of tile on the floor, cabinets in the kitchen, the solar panels are on the roof, and the interior doors are all hung.  They were in the process of putting in the sprinkler system when we were there, which looked a lot more complicated that I expected.  It’s tied into a recycled water system so there were trenches dug everywhere for that, not to mention the ground is a bit rocky out here so the trenches themselves looked pretty hard to dig.  Looks like they are on schedule for September though, I can hardly wait to pack up and move again.  (Ugggghhhhh.)  After that we did a light bit of shopping, then went over to a friend’s house for a nice pasta dinner.

Sunday we got all crazy and left El Dorado Hills for a little bit.  We spent most of the day lazing around, then in the late afternoon we drove out Hart to Hart winery for a tasting.  A friend of ours was working, and we were darn near bored out of our minds, so it seemed like a good diversion despite the 30 minute drive required to get there.  Indeed, it was a nice place to hang out for the afternoon, and most importantly it was well air-conditioned.  We spent a few hours there, then drove to nearby Cool Beerwerks for a light dinner.  Pretty nice little brew-house, although I think the best part about it was being in the town of Cool.  Every single business there was named “Cool Something-or-another.”  Kind of hard to go wrong with a name like that.  The drive back to EDH was just as arduous as the drive out, and effectively wore me out for the rest of the day.  I was relegated to the couch watching Netflix for the remainder of the evening.