For the first time in many years, I made it down to the Virginia Celtic Festival & Highland Games. Opa joined his local AOH, it’s back at the raceway, I’ve been in the market for some celtic-knot jewelry - a perfect confluence!
The weather was perfect, I considered taking up bagpipes for the millionth time, I narrowly avoided eating food served on a spear, and I started collecting Mjölnir.
For the Dunns & Kellys the weekend has become a Thanksgiving of sorts, but we’re only required to be thankful for beer and family, because who’s really thankful for turkey, anyway?
Summer’s not over yet, right? I barely stopped to enjoy it.
My trip down to Georgia to take Josh on some college visits was the exception. Ian had us eating our way down the coast. Eastern North Carolina stops were our favorite this trip: hush puppies, corn sticks, corn bread, flat corn bread, fried chicken, chicken liver, chicken gizzards, coleslaw, potatoes, and pork, pork, pork. I’ve finally figured out how to hang with my husband. I skip lunch and sample from BOTH of his.
“While your honors are the cloth out of which the frame of a man is made, they mean nothing unless you feel inspired to greater effort. Consequently, if your record is low, be not downcast, but spurred to work more than ever; if high, remember that ‘Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.’”
Last week was super fun. Quirk Summer Outing and Agalloch! Not featured: rock wall climbing, foosball, brats, haiku, black metal, doom metal, severed deer leg guitar playing, and enough beer to float away on.
Peanut Pie for the Plane Party
PCB Member Meeting at the German Society of Pennsylvania.
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Oh hey guys. I made you something. It’s a map of Virginia stuffed with interesting / historical / weird / scenic goodness for your daytripping pleasure.
There are already lots of other great resources around for finding stuff to do in Virginia. But my problem wasn’t that I couldn’t think of great things to do, it was that there are too many things to do and I had a hard time narrowing it down for a one-day trip. If you can only drive a certain distance away from home, you want to try to keep your destinations for the day within the same area. There was just no tool to identify close-together attractions easily and to get driving directions easily, so I thought I would start plotting things out on a Google Map. I’ve been working on it for about a month, during lots of nights, weekends, and noisy thunderstorms. I still want to go through and add some basic information to each point so that you can get a general idea of how much something costs, what it’s about, and when it’s open without even leaving the map. And I have a ton of wineries to add. But for now I need a tiny little break from mapping.
Now don’t EVER let me hear you say there’s “nothing to do.”
Stayed late at work to make paper stewardess hats for tomorrow’s Plane Party
Poor Ian’s moustache had so much attention it needed a tip jar.
The secret is out.
Now the whole internet knows my super power: Bourbon.
