Practicing My Parade Wave
Put the Vampire Teeth back in the mouth and washed the car. Tomorrow is the Ridge Spring Peach Festival and the MMC is in the parade…
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/06: 207
Put the Vampire Teeth back in the mouth and washed the car. Tomorrow is the Ridge Spring Peach Festival and the MMC is in the parade…
Aiken, SC to Washington, GA where we lunch on the square at a place called the Jockey Club. Donna had, appropriately, a Club Sandwich, with soup and a salad while I had a Chicken Salad Sandwich with french fries. The food was good, but the highlight was definitely the fries. Real potatoes, hand-cut and deep fried to perfection. After lunch we walked off our meal by doing a lap around the square where we discovered a cool old hotel, The Fitzpatrick Hotel, built in 1898 and operated for 50 years. Then sat neglected for another 50, before being bought and totally renovated and has been open for only the past two. Donna walked into the lobby dragging me with her. We poked around on the ground floor for a while when an employee invited up to look at some of the guest rooms. Very classy. We are going to go back in May when the town holds one of its two big cruise-ins and spend the night, if we can get a room…
After Washington we headed northeast to Watson Mill State Park. we had visited there way back in 1998 on one of our covered bridge tours. We have a little book we bought that has a bunch of Georgia attractions that we bought back then and right there in the margin was the date we visited (4/10/98) and the notation, “Very nice, need to come back.” Well we did and it was worth it again. Guess we’ll schedule another visit in 2014.
We are spending the night in the Holiday Inn Express in Elberton, GA. Us and a bunch of bass fishermen, because there is a team tournament being held on Thurmond Lake this weekend. The only problem with that, besides worrying that somebody will drag their boat trailer across the hood of the Miata trying to park 60′ of vehicle, is ice is very scarce. Neither machine in the complex spit out any frozen water, pushing the button resulted in nothing but whirring noises. I had to go to the front desk to get my little plastic bucket filled. We have 4 channels of HBO on the TV and for our viewing pleasure this evening, on two of them, is Catwoman with Halle Bery. I’ve got a whole ‘nother rant post about our stay which may come your way later.
And sometimes a good chuckle.
Inside the Miata’s Birth Announcement was a photograph of the proud father and his new baby. Check that pose, I guess that was what I thought was cool. Looks a little too much like an awkward teen aged boy who “just happened” to be hanging around the malt shop hoping to get noticed by that car load of cheerleaders.
Either sometime last night or early this morning the Emperor passed the 31k mark. I’m betting it was yesterday sometime as the odo tonight, when I noticed it, read 31038.
I have narrowed down all the Miata photos I have taken in the last year to the 20 finalists for the 2006 calendar. I need 13, one for each month and then one for the cover page. I’ll probably create a separate gallery for the calendar. While I’m at it I might do a gallery for the 2005 photos too. The seven also-rans from 2006 and the ones already in the Miata gallery that aren’t in the ’05 calendar will still fill the regular Miata Gallery well enough. I wonder if the PHP gallery software I’m using allows subdirectories?
Guess I might never know. I just clicked on the automatically generated link on each gallery page that is supposed to take you to the author’s web site and he hasn’t renewed his web hosting agreement. I guess now is the time to try the enhanced version that I downloaded a while back. At least that web site is still up.
Here is another of the pictures taken Thursday at the J. Strom Thurmond Dam. Light was coming from the side, so the sparkley red car looks more maroon, but I kind of like it. I don’t know what kind of tree was shedding on the grass there, but the leaves were quite big and oddly shaped.
Went out this afternoon looking for a fall like background for Miata photos. I’m working on a 2006 Garnet Red Miata Calendar. I’ve gathered about 16 images in a directory for me to choose from, but I wanted a couple more choices…
This was taken at the power station at the J. Strom Thurmond Dam. I’ve a couple other possibilities from today’s photo safari. One from an intersection not too far from home, plus one or two more from around the dam area.
I’m only halfway through pruning 2004’s entries. There is a lot of trash entries in there. I’d like to maybe not write so many inane posts, forcing one, even when there is nothing to write about, but I’m afraid if I don’t write something every night, the “good” will never materialize. FYI, this is exactly the kind of post I am deleting…