The busy long weekend was spent in Asheville and Raleigh.
After stopping at an apple orchard in north Georgia to buy some apples, I kicked around Asheville Thursday drinking beer and eating food.
I hung out with the Raleigh Royalty, mostly with the king and queen as the elder prince is away at college and the younger prince is too old and busy to be bothered. We went to some breweries, the NC State Fair, the NC Farmers Market, and watched the Packers beat the Steelers.
Though it made my journey more difficult, I welcomed the rain through which I drove all day yesterday.
Wordle: three, my starter was BLAST
Wow! Freddie Freeman!
The hurricane is very bad.
73 de JG/HamWithCam
what did Freddie Freeman do? (oh wait, is he playing in the World Series?)
Walk off HR in the 18th inning! WOW.
I have to admit when I saw the path of Hurricane Melissa was predicted to go out to the Atlantic I stopped paying attention.
I never started paying attention to the World Series.
Just out of professional curiosity, which university is the elder prince at now?
Loooooong day at work yesterday, very very busy these days. We didn’t make it to sushi until like 7:30, which is really late. I watched some MNF but I was in bed with the light off before 10.
I am wearing a wool sweater! In October!
He’s matriculating at Old Dominion in Virginia.
Wordle in 6!
The rain was an excuse to finally get the old scooter back in service. I had bought a battery some weeks ago but haven’t had the time to swap it out. I also had an old desk which was just a catch all for stuff and it is now one short drive away from the dump. I’m still trying to rearrange the shop with some new shelves and give Debbie access to her hay (Heeeyy) and have room to park both scooters.
I finally broke down and turned on the furnace.
-FP
The furnace turned itself on, as it should, when the temperature in the ITP Estate dipped below 65°F.
Kevin turned on the heat several days ago. If it were just me I would put on a sweater, but he is a sissy missy.
Lol. While I was away the minimum viable temperature was set at 62°F. I probably could have set it lower, but decided I was okay at 62°F. I also have the ability to adjust the temperature range from afar, so when I stopped for breakfast yesterday I bumped it up to 65°F so that it would be so chilly when I arrived home.
Yes, I usually use my Ecobee app to control the temp so I do the same thing when I am traveling.
And I knew that about Kevin when you mentioned he got mani-pedis. 😀
I mighta just laughed out loud…
He doesn’t just get the mani-pedis, he is the driving force behind them. After 3 weeks he’s all, “so are we going for mani-pedis?”
my nails suck – so I never spend the money on the mani. BUT – a pedi is sooooo worth the money.
I just sissy missied myself a little less by bumping the lowest range of my HVAC to 63°F. After coming in from doing some manual labor outside and the heat had kicked on, 65°F seemed too warm.
I had to turn my heat on, as we still had it on AC.
The fall checkup for the HVAC is tomorrow, they usually have to turn the heat on to make sure it is ready for winter. I have saved them some time .
What did you end up making for dinner with the turkey stock?
white chicken chili.
I’m trying to figure out what to make next. We have way too much in the freezer, that I just haven’t thought to use.
But – we leave for New Orleans Thursday for a long weekend, so that will be next week’s project.
When the weather once again dries out it will be time for me to start ripping out summer crops from WLF. There will neither be enough heat nor light for these plants to flourish.
wordle – FAIL !!!
too many choices of 1st letter.
work was way too busy yesterday – so we didn’t do much last night.
Today I need to figure out what I need to take for a hashing weekend in New Orleans – I don’t think the trails we picked will have much shiggy, but I need to be prepared, just in case.
meeting a friend at Waffle House for lunch – I go to the fancy places
I’m happy you had fun with the Raleigh Royalty over the weekend, I’m assuming all is well. I have not seen them in quite a while, and if you are lurking HI!
What a dreary day yesterday, I am SO not ready for winter. I’m already cold and ready to hibernate.
I had a good weekend though with a long motorcycle ride in the mountains on Saturday and bumping in to an old friend at a brewery north of Dawsonville. Sunday did a mountain bike ride then didn’t leave the house the rest of the day. I also decided to push my week long moto trip out to late spring or early summer. As I was arranging places to stay a few of them close for the season so will not be open. Lack of places to stay and cold temps convinced me to move the date.
Laura killed it training for her 50 miler, she did 26 miles on Saturday and 17 on Sunday. She finally gets to start tapering then it is game on November 17th.
Where is she running a fifty?
One of your Chattahooligans sent your greetings to me at the race Sunday. I told him you shoulda been there and he agreed.
Big race is up in Damascus VA
I do need to get back out to a CX race, maybe soon.
Go Laura! Damn she is hardcore.
And the NYT screwed up- they posted tomorrow’s Wordle review today. Go look for an easy ace!
Wow, that’s the biggest fuck up since I accidentally posted the solution as my starter. Fortunately someone saw my gaff and told me so that I didn’t spo the surprise for everyone else.