Month: July 2009

94,000 Fireflies

Didn’t notice it until we got in the car this morning that sometime last night just before we got to the hotel the Emperor passed over the 94,000 mile mark. Leaving the Red Roof Inn to come over to 607 Carriage Commons Drive I looked down and the odo read 94006.

Our plan was to visit the Western North Carolina Nature Center this morning, but the rains came down so we opted to try and find something indoors to do, so we spent an hour in the Asheville Welcome Center, most of it waiting for Allen to try on shirts off the clearance rack before ending up at the Grove Arcade. We then spent another 45 minutes sitting in rocking chairs while Allen bought a recliner for the living room.

Lunch was at Donna and my favorite place in downtown Asheville, Doc Chey’s. Aftr eating we walked in the rain to the next block to visit a Mast General Store (where Allen bought a straw hat.) With the rain showing no sign of letting up we just drove back to Hendersonville. Where it was sunny!

Allen went off to arrange delivery of his chair and Diane, Donna and I went into downtown H-ville to give St. Frank a new home at the Hospice Home Store.

Allen and Diane are of the Jewish faith and the previous owners of the Stricker Mountain Home were Catholic and left behind a 4′ tall concrete lawn statue of St. Francis of Assisi outside the front door. They weren’t sure what to do about him and I said let’s pop him in the trunk and donate him to the Goodwill, failing that we’ll just leave him on the side of the road as a corner monument. Neither of the two ladies were keen on option 2, so we donated him to the Hospice Store.

The Emperor had the top down all day in the rain, but he is as dry as could be because he is in the garage here while the four of us have been tooling around in the rental Pontiac Vibe.

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Stricker Mountain Home

Bogardus Lawn CareWe are in Hendersonville, NC to visit my sister and her husband in their new town home that they just bought. They are planning to retire here in the near future and decided to go ahead and buy a place, so that when they visit here a couple three times a year they will have a place to stay instead of the Red Roof Inn.

Donna and I are going to be the quasi-caretakers of the place (when they aren’t in residence) for however long it takes Allen to get fed up at work and retire…

We will be coming up once a month to flush the toilets, run the AC/Heater and check to make sure the picture is still clear on the HDTV in the living room. All it is going to cost us is I pay for the high speed internet access (because I’m the one who wants it) and that we keep the small patch of level ground on the empty lot he owns in the development mown. I’m going to have t-shirts made up. 🙂

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Shoulda Saved It

I should have saved last night’s Mad Men thing for tonight. So instead of real content here are a couple more images:

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Me regaling the “girls” with tails of daring do.

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Me and Don schmooze over drinks a lunch.

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Mad Men Yourself

That's me with the briefcase.Bonus post tonight.

Wanted to show you what it would look like on my first day at Sterling Cooper if I flashed back to 1965.

Less than 3 weeks to go before new episodes of TDTVS2 and you can amuse yourself until then by recreating yourself in Swanky ’60s Style With MadMenYourself.com.

A Mystery Cache

Hats Off To Caching SC We went for a hike in Hitchcock Woods this evening and checked on two of our caches and scouted a spot for our next hide, Hats Off to Caching in SC. It is inspired by the fellow who was also responsible for my Geocaching License, Renzo Tobias.

It is going to be a mystery cache and we found the perfect place to put it, a place in the Woods that is called Mystery Field. It is more of a thinned out piece of woods than an actual field and it doesn’t have a sign, but it is a spot of the woods that is little used and all up hill on the way out, so heading back to the start is a pleasant walk down. If someone wanted to get this one and the other two we checked on tonight it will be a nice little 3 mile loop.

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That Was Quick

I ordered some stuff from CacheAdvance last Thursday and it was on my doorstep today. Four days from Spokane, WA to Aiken, SC, two thousand six hundred miles to the southeast. That is because they sent it via the USPS not UPS. The minions of the Postal Service keep on chugging over the weekend unlike the United Parcel Service, which seems to stop everything and take a couple days off.

Over the weekend we found 9 caches, three Saturday and six on Sunday which is about what we consider just right for the amount of time we want to invest on this “hobby” during the summer. The trouble with that total was that it left us sitting at 149, an oh so uneven mark. Tonight after dinner we went out to get just one. Now things are better balanced here at the Bogardus Manor.

We hit Wally World on the way back to peruse the Clearance Aisle to find swag for placing in caches found or to put in the new Lock and Lock from Spokane. I also picked up some flat olive and tan paint in spray cans for cammoing my fireman’s hat for another hide I’m working on.

I think I’m going to have to get a Geocaching category for sidebar and search some linkage to put over there. I’ve already got ton of bookmarks on the subject, but now I need to go out and find a bunch of Geobloggers…

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Lost Afternoon

Instead of listening to the FRS ballgame on the internet I spent an hour or so watching the videos from Comic-Con of the panel for TDTVS (only six months to go.) The producers answered questions from the audience (as cryptically as they could on some, more honestly on others), they had several of the shows actors join them and there were several videos shown, including a phony America’s Most Wanted segment on Kate Austen. But my favorite was this commercial for Mr. Kluck’s:

When I finally decided to see how the Sox were doing I went to their home page and there was a large photo of John Smoltz pitching and this bit of verbiage underneath: J.D. Drew singled, moved to third on Adam LaRoche’s single and scored on Jed Lowrie’s sac fly as the Red Sox broke through in the fifth. Reading that you might think things were going well for Boston, but in fact it was just the opposite, they were losing six to nothing when the run scored and Smoltz had already pitched his last pitch in the game. With this loss the FRS will have won 2 out of three games in this series and usually when you are winning 2 of 3 you are playing good ball, but they can’t catch the Yankees playing like that because right now the MFY are 9-1 in their last ten games.

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