Today, we spent hours at CarMax -- where nearly everything that could go wrong, did go wrong -- replacing the dying 2012 Hyundai Accent, which Anna has been driving for a few years now (for the last few months with the check engine light on), with this new (to us, at least) 2015 Toyota Prius:
Today we had a (relatively) rare three-inch snowfall! Elyse went out to see it; everybody else mostly just stayed inside. Here are some of the pictures I took (many of them through windows or briefly opened doors) of the event:
Much of the year I feel like the speaker in that famous James Wright poem about lying in the hammock at the farm in Minnesota – "I have wasted my life" – but then the end of November rolls around and I get out the Christmas coffee cups I have amassed over the year – which I am now putting away – and I realize it hasn't been a waste after all.
The blue and yellow seed house is supposed to be squirrel proof--but it is squirrel proof only in the sense that it provides proof that there are squirrels!
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| Picture taken by Fox Burdett, edited by Chris Burdett |
Tonight I went to Elyse's band conert at Archer. Here are some of the pictures I took:
Today, Anna and Fox went to Kudzu Antiques in Decatur to look around for a while and get out of the house.
Here are some of the pictures Fox sent me while they were on their trip:
This weekend (they flew up yesterday and flew back today) Anna and Elyse went to Chicago to go to the Moonbyul concert!
Elyse is a devotee of K-pop music. When Moonbyul's current concert itinerary did not include Atlanta and Anna offered to take Elyse to a nearby concert location so she could see the show, Elyse jumped at the chance! Here are some of the pictures they texted to me from Chicago:
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| The concert stage! |
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| The concert venue |
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| The church right beside the concert venue |
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| Sunday morning breakfast at Stan's Donuts |
This afternoon, my first-born child and I went to the Snellville Fall Festival, just a few miles away from where we live in Grayson. Here are a few of the many pictures I took there.
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| After we walked around for a few minutes, I bought FB a cherry Italian ice. |
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| I finished the Italian ice (Fox was done with it), and then we went to Walmart. |
Today, FB and I went to Stone Mountain Park to visit the "old houses" (the area now called the Historic Square) and go to the Crossroads area (which is currently having its Pumpkin Festival). Here are some of the pictures I took while we were there:
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| The cats of the Historic Square were a little skittish because of the noises of construction and maintenance; this one, who was hanging out in the General Store which is the entrance to the Historic Square, was minimally skittish and appreciated our attention. |
Today made our annual trek up to Burt's Farm in Dawsonville to look at pumpkins and feel like it was fall (which it was). The place was, as I expected, very busy (this being a weekend and Gwinnett County schools being out on Fall break); nonetheless, Anna and Elyse both made purchases and hauled them back to the car.
Tonight Anna took Elyse to her first concert! (ARTMS, one of Elyse's favorite K-Pop groups, at the Tabernacle.)
This afternoon I spent a little time in Ponce City Market, which I'd only visited once before. It's a pretty good place to walk around for a few minutes and take some pictures. Here are a few of mine.
