Things have been quite busy out west, and not in the “fun” sense.  I need to squeeze out ten minutes to update this every week though.  Priorities, blah blah.  We’ve had a decent run of activities too.  A few concerts, a few cookouts, and a few trips.  This last weekend was all in my “two mile circle” though.  Friday we ventured up to Slingshots to play a few games of pool.  I should probably add that place to our regular list of entertainment.  It covers all my criteria nicely:  Cheap, entertaining, and cheap.  The rooster walking around the place doesn’t hurt either.

Saturday we took the pups to the dog park for some exercise.  They seemed to enjoy it, and it was a nice day for us to be outside too.  Afterwards we all went to the Saloon for lunch on their patio.  We picked that spot because the pups can go there, and they even have a dog menu for them.  They enjoyed their plates of scrambled eggs and chicken.  Matter of fact, it looked better than my sandwich, I was slightly jealous.  Later in the day we took them home and went to a fund raiser at the dog rescue up in Shingle Springs.  I guess the idea was to bring your dogs to the event, but they were worn out, and it was far too hot for them to be walking around the parking lot.  Matter of fact, it was too hot for me to be walking around a parking lot, but we stuck around for quite a while.  They had all kinds of junk for sale, (yes we ended up with some of it…) and a decent blues band to entertain everybody.  Felt a little bad for the band, it was easily 100 degrees out, but they held up well.

Sunday the usual suspects went out wine tasting at some of the nearby favorites.  I opted out though.  I enjoyed a peaceful afternoon on the patio with the dogs, listening to some tunes and smoking some pork.  Not a bad day to waste a Sunday.  Everybody came over for dinner, and that wrapped up the weekend.