Monday, August 2 2010

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Look at that smug face. Couldn't you just give him a poke?

Ah, vacation: nothing like it to soothe the ravel'd sleeve of nature's cares. And that's where I've been lo this last while. I was pressed to use up some leftover time and traditionally take off the week of my wife's birthday, so I'm out of the office until the 16th-ish. So why am I blogging when I'm not at work? Two reasons: first, my wife can't see me so she can't smack me for working when I could be fixing that closet or weeding that garden, and second, I was a little behind (as usual) on blogging when I left for my holiday.

Things are going well. Because her birthday is over the BC Day weekend, there's always lots of fun things to do at home. We had a big dinner with her brother and his wife (lobsters and champagne!) then there was the Festival of the Sea and the torchlight parade and hot tubbing on the patio, one night there was an outdoor movie on East Beach (Elvis' Blue Hawaii) and last night there was a spectacular fireworks display at the Big White Rock.

Tomorrow I'm taking her to Las Vegas, where fun will be had--almost too much fun, I'm worried: between helicopter rides in the Grand Canyon, a Cirque du Soleil show, a spa-day and shooting machine guns on the strip I'm concerned we might come back overloaded and saturated with bright lights and big cheese. Ah well, it's an easy job and nobody has to do it.

I'm also planning my grilling session for our return. A few posts ago I detailed the tribulations of my oldest barrel, Hobbes. I talked about dismembering him and using his bones to cook my dinner. Here he is:

I fall to pieces . . .

And stacked neatly for air-drying

Skeletons are creepy

I'm incorporating the cremation of Hobbes in a couple of places: the food I'll put into my Unreserved blog, the mechanics of barrel dismemberment will go to Winemaker, and part of it to the second part of an article I'm writing for their magazine.

Like I said, I'm on vacation. Har!

Posted by Timcation AT 12:50PM

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