It's been a busy week
Dan drove down last Sunday night from Ohio. He told me he might or might not drive straight through. If he did, it would put him at my house after 6am. When I woke up Sunday night some time after 5am and hadn't gotten a call saying "hey, I'm stopping to sleep" I figured it meant he'd driven straight through, and it was very hard for me to get back to sleep, since I knew he'd show up soon. I did doze off eventually, but woke up when he walked into my room. It was great to see him, even if it was only for a few minutes before he collapsed and slept.
Tuesday night we went to the Roger Waters concert. It was the same show we saw last September, and once again it was awesome. The first half was a bunch of old Pink Floyd stuff, with a couple Waters solo pieces. Then an intermission, then the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon. The encore was Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home and Comfortably Numb. It was great. It was at an indoor venue this time, so they didn't release the huge inflatable pig like they do at the outdoor shows.
Wednesday we drove down to Cochran, Georgia to visit some of Dan's family. While we were there we stopped to take photos of a house that his family once owned... it's been vacant and crumbling for years and years now, but it was once a gorgeous mansion. There was apparently difficulty selling it to someone who wanted to restore it, but eventually the city bought it, intending to make it a government building (city hall? I don't remember) but the mayor in charge of that died, and the new mayor sold it to a developer who is going to tear it down and put up a Walgreens. So sad. We also stopped at his family's old cemetery.
It was interesting to see all the old headstones, with dates from the Revolutionary War and so on. So many of them died in their 30s and 40s--it was eerie. It was also a sort of interesting puzzle to figure out who was related to who and how. We figured out that one 20 year old woman had probably died in childbirth (her infant was buried next to her) and her husband, already much older than she was, was buried nearby, having outlived her by several decades.
Thursday we went on a bike ride--Dan, Dan's mom, Dominic, and me--for 18 miles on the Silver Comet Trail. Dominic fell twice but kept going. Thursday evening we went out to dinner with a bunch of Dan's family.
Friday we stayed home.
Saturday we tidied up the house (which was a mess of boxes--I've been going through all the stuff I have stored in the garage, deciding what I want to move and what I want to get rid of) in preparation for company. At 3pm we hosted a small get-together of several online friends. Dan's brother also came. geobabe1 and unclebill35 (and the little dudes) brought a grill and food, drink, and merriment ensued.
Sunday was the end of a busy week. Dan packed his stuff. We packed Dominic for his summer travels. We loaded up Dan's car with all of both of their stuff--as well as all three bikes, which were still there from Thursday--and Dan drove off with Dominic. They stopped in Chattanooga, TN to check out the inclined railway, but the line was too long so they drove to the top in the car, and checked out the battlefields. After that, they drove up to northern Tennessee, where my dad and his family live. That's where they are now. Tomorrow Dan will head off alone the rest of the way to Ohio, while Dominic stays with his grandparents for several weeks, before flying to see his dad.
Meanwhile I'm back here alone again. It seems so quiet after such an action-packed week.
Tuesday night we went to the Roger Waters concert. It was the same show we saw last September, and once again it was awesome. The first half was a bunch of old Pink Floyd stuff, with a couple Waters solo pieces. Then an intermission, then the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon. The encore was Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home and Comfortably Numb. It was great. It was at an indoor venue this time, so they didn't release the huge inflatable pig like they do at the outdoor shows.
Wednesday we drove down to Cochran, Georgia to visit some of Dan's family. While we were there we stopped to take photos of a house that his family once owned... it's been vacant and crumbling for years and years now, but it was once a gorgeous mansion. There was apparently difficulty selling it to someone who wanted to restore it, but eventually the city bought it, intending to make it a government building (city hall? I don't remember) but the mayor in charge of that died, and the new mayor sold it to a developer who is going to tear it down and put up a Walgreens. So sad. We also stopped at his family's old cemetery.
It was interesting to see all the old headstones, with dates from the Revolutionary War and so on. So many of them died in their 30s and 40s--it was eerie. It was also a sort of interesting puzzle to figure out who was related to who and how. We figured out that one 20 year old woman had probably died in childbirth (her infant was buried next to her) and her husband, already much older than she was, was buried nearby, having outlived her by several decades.
Thursday we went on a bike ride--Dan, Dan's mom, Dominic, and me--for 18 miles on the Silver Comet Trail. Dominic fell twice but kept going. Thursday evening we went out to dinner with a bunch of Dan's family.
Friday we stayed home.
Saturday we tidied up the house (which was a mess of boxes--I've been going through all the stuff I have stored in the garage, deciding what I want to move and what I want to get rid of) in preparation for company. At 3pm we hosted a small get-together of several online friends. Dan's brother also came. geobabe1 and unclebill35 (and the little dudes) brought a grill and food, drink, and merriment ensued.
Sunday was the end of a busy week. Dan packed his stuff. We packed Dominic for his summer travels. We loaded up Dan's car with all of both of their stuff--as well as all three bikes, which were still there from Thursday--and Dan drove off with Dominic. They stopped in Chattanooga, TN to check out the inclined railway, but the line was too long so they drove to the top in the car, and checked out the battlefields. After that, they drove up to northern Tennessee, where my dad and his family live. That's where they are now. Tomorrow Dan will head off alone the rest of the way to Ohio, while Dominic stays with his grandparents for several weeks, before flying to see his dad.
Meanwhile I'm back here alone again. It seems so quiet after such an action-packed week.