This weekend was pretty busy. I didn't get home from work on Friday until 8:00. My Vitamin K1 instrument crapped out and every time I'd fix one thing another part would blow. I felt like I'd rebuilt the whole instrument by the time I left. But it appeared to be running so I had done as much as I could when I escaped ( Read more... )

My cousins came to spend a week at the Montreat Center near Black Mountain. They invited us to spend some time with them. I took 3 days off from work to be there. Christopher and I went Monday morning. Chuck stayed in W-S with my slowly dying car ( Read more... )

I have been puttering around the yard for days. Chuck mowed the front last night. Vacuuming will happen tomorrow night when there is less time for it to need it again before they arrive. Bathroom cleaning will happen tonight. Dusting, probably, tonight. Sheets changed Monday morning.

sheelangig is coming to see me tomorrow morning. Grits are on the ( Read more... )

My grandmother was a great party planner. Not the catered kind. The ones where everyone comes and has a blast without feeling stiff and uncomfortable.

The summer I turned 16 she had a MASSIVE reunion in her back yard. Granted, the yard was an acre or so, so there was room. But, there were people everywhere. There was supposed to be an age cut ( Read more... )

The ruella has started blooming. I think it was July when it started last year and it was early August the year before when we got it ( Read more... )

I have been in our nation's capital all weekend. veracity1 and I had a great time, but I am glad to be back to my own bed ( Read more... )

We went to Asheville this weekend.

Chuck and I had planned to go do the Black Mountain Reggae 5K on Saturday and to stay with my youngest sister and her family ( Read more... )

Beef O'Brady's Family Sports Pub is not a place to take people who don't eat meat, are trying to watch fat or salt intake or generally don't want to kill themselves with their food. Adding a tip to the bill after you have had to give children $10-$20 to entertain them with all the video games lining the walls is an offense.

Tupelo Honey Cafe, on ( Read more... )

When I was little, we had a stereo that one of those pieces of furniture with a turntable and a storage area for the albums. My dad had Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire album. My mom had a Herb Alpert collection. There was a soundtrack to Fantasia. And I had a record, too. There may have been other stuff, but that's what I remember ( Read more... )

When I was 5 my dad decided to teach himself to play the guitar. At that time, my parents had a piece-of-furniture stereo. It was stocked with lots of Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass, Johnny Cash and the soundtrack to FantasiaMy dad was the one that contributed the Johnny ( Read more... )