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The Sixth Day We Burned One Turkey And Picked Up The Other To Go

Portrait of H.o.p. at Papago Park. View On White Love this pic. Well, can’t say exactly that “we” burned the turkey.

December 8, 2006
The 5th day was H.o.p.’s early birthday party

The 5th day was H.o.p.’s early 9th birthday party, thrown for him by his grandparents. He loved it. We had a lazy, easy time batting balloons around. He carried one last balloon with him all the way to Yellow Horse, on our way home, when the wind grabbed it out of the car and whisked…

December 7, 2006
To Alamogordo then Phoenix, where the 4th day ended with a spectacular light show

Alamogordo Rest Stop Sleep Shop Light box enlargement

December 6, 2006
On the third night we decide to eat a decent dinner at what seems to be a popular place, and we pay for it dearly

Christmas Tree in Town Square, Texas Light box enlargement

December 4, 2006
The second day of the trip, we encountered a table in the middle of the road

What do you do when you’re racing cross country and back on a two week vacation and want to give the eight-year-old huddled in the back seat the impression you’re providing him extra-exceptional entertainment by doing this? Flying through Louisiana on I-20, the co-adults spotted a billboard for a gator park and discreetly consulted with…

December 4, 2006
The extra ultra mundane very dull first day of our trip

The first day of our trip was all last minute errands, like buying a camera. But first we went to get our new glasses, which were thankfully ready, and dealt with the slowest optician in the world who was very pleasant but still very very very slow and had an odd way of speaking so…

December 3, 2006
Back. And tired, tired, tired.

We are back–and no we didn’t listen to Jackson Browne. Sorry. We don’t have any of Jackson Browne’s CDs. Co-adult says there are some he’d like to get but I have to admit I’m not very familiar with Browne’s music. Need to get an USB cable for the camera I was using the first couple…

December 2, 2006
I spent my day stitching paper bones together with artificial sinew

The world is falling apart and here I am performing the essential duty of stitching paper bones together. However did that come to pass? Yesterday we’d planned another excursion to North Georgia, but H.o.p. was slow slow slow to get going, so slow that by the time we instead arrived at the Fernbank Science Center…

August 14, 2006
New Echota

Light box enlargement Emerson writing of the American Indian Removal of 1838 said, it was a â€œcrime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country; for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our Government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying…

August 12, 2006
Flamingo pic (the dining Horned Bills made themselves no friends)

Took this photo at the zoo a couple of weeks ago before the computer went down. Click on it for the larger version. Love the bird 4th from the left. I don’t know what was up, don’t know that much about flamingos, but every few minutes they would all suddenly start doing flamingo squawks and…

May 15, 2006
Some Georgia Aquarium pics

Went to the Georgia Aquarium today. It is quite an outing. A brother’s wife was with their daughter and picked us up. Then a sister of mine joined us down there with her children. So we were three adults and 8 children. One has to first make reservations. And if you are planning an outing…

April 19, 2006
Chocolate fountain only on some Sundays

Another Boingboing pointer because it is about chocolate and because the new Fernbank exhibit is on chocolate which is an exhibit making a nationwide tour. I love chocolate but am no connoisseur, just like I love coffee but am no connoisseur, and one it comes down to it am fine with a really oily french…

February 20, 2006