{"id":30208,"date":"2025-09-26T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:00:37","slug":"other-august-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30208","title":{"rendered":"Other August Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August was a full month. Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30151\" >our trip to Grapevine for our 23rd wedding anniversary<\/a>, I got to play a lot of pickleball and participate in several fun things. While I never get to play in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickennpickle.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken N Pickle<\/a> ambassador open play anymore (because it&#8217;s on Wednesdays this year and I teach Zumba on Wednesdays at West YMCA), I always manage to stop by for the group photo. August was no different.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54733673362\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54733673362_24d9834143.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed a great month of team league with my awesome KC^2 teammates.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54781311596\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54781311596_41370db45b_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I played some chess at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapnpaddles.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TapNPaddles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54738744784\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54738744784_f04d976be4_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I helped with the Dink Minor Leagues MiLP v3 presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inpicklenation.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InPickle Nation<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapnpaddles.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TapNPaddles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54740225330\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54740225330_b09120af91_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hung out with Chris Townley and Jay and Becca Dill at family fun day. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54740470416\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54740470416_b717403b71.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We celebrated Zach&#8217;s 40th birthday at Flight Club. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54742665399\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54742665399_a2041d9f00.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ate lunch at Plentibloom (inside the Ruffin Building).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54746683893\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54746683893_30f30a3077.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian got to try a new ramen place. I will make a separate, dedicated post about this. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54748599466\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54748599466_32daa6de8e_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I played pickleball with some fun ladies. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54752465287\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752465287_636882c2ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had our weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inpicklenation.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InPickle Nation<\/a> mini tournaments at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapnpaddles.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TapNPaddles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54755170355\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54755170355_b40cb551fe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of trips to the ballpark. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/54757213204\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54757213204_d7f850b45b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September is pretty much over so I&#8217;ll be recapping what happened this month soon. Eventually we will be completely caught up. Have a fantastic weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August was a full month. Besides our trip to Grapevine for our 23rd wedding anniversary, I got to play a lot of pickleball and participate in several fun things. While I never get to play in the Chicken N Pickle ambassador open play anymore (because it&#8217;s on Wednesdays this year and I teach Zumba on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,2304,262],"tags":[3809,1326,3127,191,3137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30210,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions\/30210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}