kathygnome | A pleasant weekend

We had quite a pleasant weekend, all things considered.

First of all, Sketchy seems to be doing much better. He's still gimpy on the leg, but his coat is smooth and shiny and he's alert and getting around and all that. We're now thinking he might have two issues. One being the stomach distress and the other being an injured leg.

Saturday we had Janna's parents over. We've been cancelling on them because of this or that for the last month. Thankfully there was a "skip" week for The Amazing Race and we only had two to watch. We did our Chipotle thing. I have to say, it was quite good, particularly given the usual hideous Mexican you can get on cape. Definitely something we'd do again if we were already in Hyannis. Janna's mother was completely perplexed both at the whole Mexican food thing and even more at the concept of ordering food through the computer. I'm pretty sure she thinks it's witchcraft.

Yesterday we took Nora to a playground and had an awesome time. It's not the usual one we go to and it has a lot more complex, but at the same time friendly gear. It's an accessible one and I think that overall makes it easier for Nora who's completely daring in what she'll do, but just isn't physically tall enough to ride this ride. She discovered the accessible swings, which have a lock down mechanism like a roller coaster which makes them a lot safer for someone her age, even if she's probably technically too small for them. She's absolutely fearless in them. The other reason I like the playground is the people there seem to be a lot less fussy about their kids using the equipment. At the usual place, there always seems to be a helicopter parent or grandparent fussing about a kid a year or two older than Nora using the gear that we don't think twice about her using.

Afterwards, even though we didn't watch the premiere live, we honored the return of Mad Men with a total retro steak dinner, cooked on the grill.

On the grill, this was the old one, but we've decided to go all in and buy a Weber Genesis 330 and have someone deliver it and set it up. Given that we grill outside 12 months a year and have the income, it makes sense to buy something really nice. I must admit being a little sad that we hadn't bought a better oven when ours died several years ago. In fact, the grill we're looking at is actually more expensive than our range.