We hope everyone had a nice holiday!
Winter Update December 29, 2008
So, it has been awhile since I have put anything up here, huh? Well, we hosted a Halloween birthday party for our friend Charlie.
You can see more pics from the party here.
Our good friends Elizabeth and Tom moved away with their precious baby boy, Patrick. Lucky for us they moved to Charlottesville, so hopefully we will be able to see them more often than not.
My cousin, Mary, got married at our grandmother’s and her mother’s home in the Northern Neck of Virginia.
You can see more pics of the wedding here.
And finally, we started off the holiday season with one night at Warren Hayne’s Christmas Jam at the Civic Center. My biggest highlight was when John Paul Jones played mandolin and Joan Osbourne sang with the Del McKoury Band.
There are more pics here. I finally gave up around 3:30 am (the music ended at 4:30 pm) and was completely ruined the next day. I haven’t been that spent from a night out in a loooooong time. Can’t wait until next year!
Gas Prices November 5, 2008
We are seeing some of the lowest gas prices here since we moved to town over three years ago. However, unleaded is the only gas being shipped in. Still no premiums.
Halloween Costume Party November 5, 2008
We hosted a birthday party for our friend, Charlie, aka – Scooby-Doo, last Saturday. It lasted almost 10 hours. I slept the entire next day. You can see more pics here.
Fall Color November 5, 2008
I took this from the parking lot at work. I really need to get up in them hills.
Happy Halloween! October 31, 2008
Last weekend Brian and I took Sally to the Second Halloween Dog Festival and Costume Contest. We were too late to enter the costume contest for her weight-class, but we had a fantastic time walking around and seeing all the other costumes. We were joined by our neighbors, Chris and Carol, and their dog, Willow, who was dressed as the Frog Prince. The festival was right in the heart of downtown and several businesses had joined in the festivities as part of a trick-or-treat walk for the dogs. You went around to the participating businesses who handed out dog treats to all the pups and signed a sheet that you eventually took back to festival for free goodies. Our counter is still full of goodies a week later! You can see pics of more dogs here.
Girls are a Girls Best Friend September 29, 2008
A few weeks ago I went to Roanoke to visit Michaux along with Jenni and Heather. Michaux’s sister-in-law was also in town that weekend. We had a great weekend of manis and pedis and shopping and eating. Mostly we spent time oogling over Michaux’s baby girl, Millie. Cutest freakin’ baby in the world!
There are more pics here.
The shortest line… September 29, 2008
For the past week in Asheville, and much of the south east, we have been in a real gas crisis. It was so bad last week that police were told not to patrol, the local community college shut down for the remainder of the week because students couldn’t get to school, and government offices closed. Whenever a truck came to town and filled up a station, lines would immediately form and what would normally have been enough gas to last the community about a week was selling out in a few hours. People were waiting up to 3 hours in lines to fill up. At the end of last week I happened to drive by a gas station that is a little bit out of the way and was selling gas. Since the line for the pumps was on an obscure side street, the line was relatively short, so I jumped in and waited only about half an hour. It cost me almost $50 for half a tank! The situation seems to be getting better but gas is still over $4 a gallon. Brian is just about on empty but my tank is fill so we should be ok for another week. It really makes think hard about getting a scooter!
The Best Birthday Presents Come in the Smallest Packages September 2, 2008
This Labor Day Weekend was full of celebrations. First we camped out at Hot Springs, NC, to celebrate the July nuptials of our friends Sara and Jason. Then we capped off the weekend with the last game of the regular season of the Asheville Tourists. To top it all off, my littlest cousin was born. The world can always use another Virgo.
more pics here
