Uhhhh…  I guess I should have been a bit more descriptive on last weekend’s activities, and save the slacker-updates for a weekend when I really needed it, like this past one.  Just not a lot going on the last few days.  Friday, in what could possibly be considered a “rut,” we went to Ruff Haus after work.  After that we were a bit hungry, so we headed to dinner at Los Pinos in Cameron Park.  It’s OK I guess;  The best we’ve found around here so far.  Ever open-minded, I haven’t concluded just yet if A) I have different tastes being from KC, or B) they have really, really marginal restaurants here.  I must say I’m leaning towards the latter.

Saturday I’m not sure we got out of bed.  Oh wait…  Yes, we did go to Target & then Chipotle, and took a quick drive by the new house/lot/dirt-pile.  We spent the better part of lunch debating if the Chipotle burrito was just as good as any we’d found in the local restaurants.  I maintain that yes it is, although I prefer table service.  Geez, that’s a pretty thin margin there, especially given the up-charge for eating out.  Oh well.  We found the house coming along nicely.  They’ve built the forms for the slab, and dug trenches for the sewer and stuff.  (At least I guess that’s what they are for, got me.)  I must be more excited for the new house than I realized, as I drive by it nearly every day after work.  Granted, it’s all of a block off my usual path.

Sunday brought some awesome temps, but it was insanely windy.  After a bit of discussion on our Mother’s Day plans, we decided to go to Villa Toscano winery for lunch.  There were many facets to my thought process on this.  Probably most importantly, I was convinced there would be no crowd.  After all, what kind of cheapskate takes Mom to the free pasta buffet on Mother’s Day?  Additionally, the weather looked great for some outside dining, and the drive there is kind of nice.  In something of an anomaly, our plans actually worked out well.  The tasting room was the most crowded we’d ever seen, but we weren’t going in there so that was fine.  We just hung out on the patio and enjoyed the free grub and some moderately good people-watching.  After that we headed back home, and as we were turning up the hill towards the house we ran right into a big crowd waiting for the Tour of California bike race to come through. We pulled over and watched that, it was pretty entertaining.  After they went by, we went on home and I spent the rest of the afternoon on the patio, listening to baseball and enjoying my annual Mother’s Day cigar.  Donette had to play spoilsport and prattle on about there being no such thing as an “annual Mother’s Day cigar,” since I’d never observed that ritual before, nor does it have anything to do with Mother’s Day.  Always playing Debbie Downer, that girl.  I thought it had a festive ring to it.