There are a couple of pics this week.
Our big news is the trip to Acorn. Kathryn got a grant to take a trip from Eastwind to help Acorn with their butchering. Acorn is an intentional community and is not far from Charlotsville, VA. So we went down to visit. It was both a lot of fun and quite an adventure.
Ever Popular Tulip Poplar Log
Saturday morning, I went out to enter points in the GPS, and the car didn’t start. I charged the battery and Danita drove the car to the dealer to have them check it out. I gave Danita a ride back home and went off to teach my web posting class. We were having lunch when the dealer called and said the car is OK. We are puzzled as to why the battery discharged overnight, but so far, the car is fine. We left a half hour later than planned, picked Mark up, and ran into agonizingly bad traffic in DC. We arrived so late we decided to go to dinner before checking into the hotel. It’s a good thing we were delayed, because Kathryn was just finishing her work for the day when we arrived.
Waterfall with ‘Not Potable’ sign, making this a Foul Water Fall
When we finally got to our hotel, there were two Scrabble games. Danita and Kathryn teamed up on Mark. After two games, they were exactly tied. Sunday we decided to walk the 2 mile Saunders-Monticello Trail. It’s an easy trail, and we enjoyed walking the two miles. About the time we turned around and walk back, it started raining. It stopped raining shortly after we got back to the hotel. Fortunately, we had time to grab a shower and a change of clothes before we had to check out. We spent some time hanging at the hotel, then we took Kathryn back to Acorn and drove home through some more agonizingly slow traffic.
At the second-best Peace and Meditation Bench
We had an excellent food this weekend. Everybody had a different dinner Saturday, and everybody enjoyed their food immensely. Our hotel offered a very nice free breakfast, with donuts, bagels, eggs, bacon, and more. For lunch, we went to a diner and had club sandwiches. The chips were mediocre, but the sandwiches were sublime.
And that’s the end of this week’s story. I hope this finds everybody doing well.