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The new deck has been finished and the final few boards have been put into place.

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We are pleased.

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And since our contractor finished this project late Saturday afternoon, we invited him out to the man cave / Barn Mahal for some liquid refreshment.

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I tried #3 of the 4 from the Wisconsin batch our neighbor gifted me when I cat sat. It was a cherry pomegranate sour from a brewery called 3 Sheeps. A nice combination of subtle pucker and fruit. Plus… it was pink. Who doesn’t love that in a beer?

After the first beer, the pool playing commenced.

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And as they played, I drank…

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Though my second round was a truly revolting way to end the Wisconsin craft brewery tour. A limp, bland completely uninteresting sour made with unripened grapes from a company called Bevy. If you live in Wisconsin, don’t bother with this one.

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No new visitor to the man cave escapes without playing Name That Tool, so even though it was 9:00pm and he was ready to leave… the game began.

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Our contractor did well, guessing four out of six. To date no one has named them all.

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One of our favorite watering holes has been disappointing us lately.

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Not with the cocktails, they’re still perfect… as this fresh blueberry mojito demonstrates. But the food, which is more than a tad overpriced, has been letting us down on a regular basis and that’s sad.

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This is a seared scallop on vegetable risotto dish I’ve always adored. And while it looks lovely, the risotto crunched… which it definitely shouldn’t do.

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This massive portion of mashed potatoes the husband was served with his salmon arrived stone cold. But when he complained and asked them to reheat them? They brought him another large portion of cold potato. Eating out with my husband should require a travel size blow torch because nothing is ever hot enough. Even when he asks the waitress to make doubly sure it’s steaming.

The final nail in the proverbial food coffin? I ordered a Bananas Foster cake for dessert.

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And it didn’t have any bananas!

WTH?

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