We had our first guest here last night. A friend of ours who we go climbing with was finally able to come spend some time with us. Not only have our lives been a bit hectic lately with the new dog, house and everything else, but our friend has been finishing up college which put a lot of strain on her time. But hopefully 2007 will be a year of settling down for all of us so we’ll all be able to relax a bit more and hang out.
I went shopping on Thursday and picked up some really nice Angus steaks at the store, each about an inch thick. They came in a package of 4 and although we were only 3 people, I knew someone would eat it eventually. What we didn’t really count on was our Newfoundland puppy eating the final steak when we weren’t paying attention…but that’s another story.
The evening overall was really nice. We pulled out one of our huge patio candles and had that going while we grilled on the Weber. I actually have several more that are huge lanterns but I apparently put the candles which go inside them “somewhere safe” where they wouldn’t melt or anything and I now have no clue at all where they are. But it’s still chilly out and rainy so I have another month or so to track them down.
We also helped to lighten the load of our wine cellar (not that it needs it) and polished off a few bottles of red wine from Krems along with a German sparkling wine that we bought over Christmas. So today we’ll be recovering a bit after not going to bed until very early this morning and ending up with about 4 hours of sleep before the dog started asking to go out. Spring chickens we certainly are not.
We’ve just come back from breakfast at Südlicht, the bar & restaurant down the street from us. So now that my belly is full I’m planning to spend the afternoon sleeping a bit and just relaxing. This is the first weekend in a long while that we haven’t had an immense list of things that must be done so we’re just going to enjoy it since we know most weekends in the future (especially over the summer) we just won’t get that lucky.
