Today was all about looking at Payton's senior pictures as he prepares to graduate high school and move on to college. Hard to believe so much time has passed. The pictures were great but it took quite a while. After that we had lunch and met Megan's mom, then it was time to drive home. Luckily the trip home was much better and only took the normal four-ish hours.
The official jet of the Greer (Ireland) clan, the SR-71. Lonnie made this out of a Lego kit and I was very proud to see him carrying on the tradition.
We finally made it to Lonnie's house after a terrible drive, it took us nearly seven hours with all the reroutes and traffic. But that's behind us now, we're here!
We're on our way to Atlanta (Dacula specifically) for Payton's graduation pictures and to bring back Mackenzie for the week. On the Georgia border they have a very nice rest stop / visitor center. It has this display for a science museum. I mean what more do you need than dinosaurs and space ships?
One of those things pictures just can't seem to capture, but tonight's sunset turning the wispy clouds a vibrant orange was pretty amazing.
The Beekeeper's Picnic is a short, sweet little indy throwback game. It's an old school point and click adventure featuring a retired Sherlock Holmes living on the coast wanting to throw a picnic for his dear friend Watson. Fun, engaging, great voice acting, could have been a little longer but I can't fault what it was going for.
For the 27 years we have lived in this house we've wanted an electrical outlet in the upstairs nook so we could plug in this display cabinet's light as well as our silver Christmas tree instead of running an annoying extension cord out of the guest bathroom. Well want no more! Our friend, neighbor, and HVAC / electrician guy Allen installed the plug today. Look at those reindeer shine!
Finished Avowed, a first person RPG. It was fine. The story was ok, the voice acting was very good, the game play was fine. It just kinda, was. No regrets playing it but I didn't find it particularly memorable.
For some reason we haven't seen a woodpecker of any sort for quite a long time. We got a new suet feeder and finally, my favorite little buddy is back.
Tonight was the Beaver Moon, one of the so called "supermoon" events when the moon is at it's closest to Earth so it seems bigger and brighter than usual. Despite how far they've come, camera phones do not do a good job of taking moon shots BTW.
The yearly dress up fancy for a free lunch committee meeting. Always fun. Interesting doings this year.
Jenni and Megan are heading back home today, and we actually remembered to grab some family photo ops! Jenni, Megan and Dad.
Dems win big.
Dems cave.
Can never quite seem to pull a clean victory can they?
Focus on the good I guess.
We got a late start so we only got to see two studios but it was still a lot of fun,. The second one was a pottery shop called Ravin Studio. She had a lot of cool stuff and we bought several knickknacks. I got a ceramic wolf!
I particularly liked this table the woodworker made, but we don't really have a place for it on our house.
Jenni found an art crawl in up in Gallatin, six different studios having an open house around the town. We started with this jewelry making / woodworking shop.
Dinner hanging out with Jenni and Megan, featuring Dad's famous steaks. Best in town!
