Meg took me back to Charlotte to the doctor very early Tuesday morning for my checkup from my cataract surgery the day before, and afterwards we decided to find a breakfast spot nearby. We found a great place called Snooze, and it was perfect. The food was delicious, and neither of us had a mimosa, but they are Lindee’s favorites, so I took this picture to send her to so she can be planning for the next time we go, when she accompanies us 🙂

Sunday after the service a group of us headed to Albemarle, NC – about an hour and a half down the road – to celebrate our friend Pam’s 70th birthday. After lunch we went & saw a program by the Raleigh Ringers, a world renowned handbell choir out of, of course, Raleigh. It was so, so good. I got just a couple of pictures during their performance – while they were entering…

…and the last song we got to hear (we had to leave before it was over to get back to church for a meeting several of our bunch needed to attend), which was Don’t Fear the Reaper. Not what I would expect from a handbell choir, of course, and it was a take off on the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit. You can see the guy who was playing Will Ferrell’s part in this picture. It was great. The whole afternoon was.

Saturday evening Jeff & I met Sherri and Gary in Winnsboro, to visit the South Carolina Railroad Museum. What a fun place. There were several old train cars we could walk through. It’s a small museum, staffed almost entirely by volunteers, so refurbishing the cars is very much a work in progress. I loved looking through them, and it was kind of cool that they were still so much like they had been when they were in use. This was the kitchen in one of the fancier railroad cars. It was so much fun to check out.

After we toured through the train cars we actually rode one of the trains, just seven or eight miles down the track, to a restored office building of an old granite quarry in the area, which was very cool in itself, and had a delicious barbecue supper. Along the way we crossed a couple of highways. One of them had a bar that came down, like a regular crossing, but the other one, here, didn’t have a crossing sign, so one of the workers on the train had to just get out with a stop sign to stop any traffic that came along. I didn’t get a picture while he was out there – just this one of the highway as we crossed over it. So much fun.

I never got a single picture of Jeff working on the ramp for his new shed, but did manage to get out to get pictures of him caulking – the final step on the outside. He still has to build the loft inside, but I sure am proud of all of his hard work.

…was Thursday night, so we were in Rock Hill at District 3 Stadium for that. The game didn’t go their way, but Adam played a lot of the game, so it was fun watching him in action. He is #50 – I did get this picture sometime when he came off the field.

And this one sometime when he was on the field…

Clara had quite the cheering section at her match this past week. 🙂

Another highlight of last weekend was making my first stop ever at a Buc-ee’s. Is that how they spell it? It was an experience, for sure – but the sliced pork loin sandwich I had was yummy.

Meg and I spent last Friday night with Josh and Hillary – and Baby Jack, of course, and then the next morning we got to check out their yard and the area before we went to breakfast, including their neighborhood garden. They had vegetables growing, and some lovely flowers, too.

After a long leisurely breakfast Meg & I headed to Murfreesboro to visit the cemetery, to see the marker that has been installed on the plot where Momma and Daddy’s ashes will finally rest. We decided to go get some new fall flowers for both their grave and Harry’s, since we didn’t know when anyone would be back to visit. We thought they looked really pretty once we trimmed the styrofoam down so they fit in the vase.

Last Friday Meg & I left out after we dropped Clara off at school to head to Murfreesboro. We’d already decided to spend some time in the mountains on our way, and our first stop was at the Chief Junaluska Memorial. There was a circle of monuments like this around his grave in the middle – very cool. I had no idea that was even there. We learned a lot about him we did not know.

As we got further into the mountains, we were on some pretty snaky roads, and couldn’t resist stopping at almost every overlook. I didn’t attempt the picnic table, but I bet Meg got some gorgeous pictures!