Wednesday, October 24th, Charlie, Sean, Kelly, Ashley, and I went to the mountains for the day. It was a little chilly (50s, to near 60°), but beautiful. We did our usual route - 40W to 52N to Fancy Gap, VA, then got on the Parkway and headed south to Boone.
Here are some of the pictures I took:
In Virginia.
Virginia.
Stone Mountain Overlook. North Carolina.
View of Stone Mountain, across the street from Mahogany Rock Overlook.
Perhaps Air Bellows overlook.
Alligator Back overlook.
Trail at Alligator Back.
Charlie, Kelly, Ashley, and Sean. Alligator Back.
At Bluff Mountain overlook. There's a nice trail that leads to a stream at this overlook.
The Lump overlook. Yes, we climbed the hill, as we always do.
At Dan'l Boone Inn Restaurant.
At Dan'l Boone Inn Restaurant.
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I brought Pippin to the vet for his bi-annual check up last month. (Bi-annual because he's a senior dog.) Poor old man is starting to have some health problems. *sigh* We knew about the collapsing trachea from his spring vet visit, but now he also has congestive heart failure, fluid in his lungs, and his kidneys and liver aren't doing great. He's on heart medication now, as well as fluid pills. He also tested positive for giardia (a parasite), but we gave him medicine for that. His kidneys and liver aren't doing bad enough to require medication. Hopefully they won't get to that point. He's been to the vet every couple weeks since then and, honestly, I'm really sick of going there. He has to go back again this Monday. :-/ Milo is due for his annual exam, too. If they'd ever stop asking me to bring Pippin back for whatever, I can bring Milo.
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I ordered a Loki wallet from Loungefly a few weeks ago. I love it! Now I want the purse. :-) And a Loki decal for my car.
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Since my last entry, I finished Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman. Very good book. Can't wait for the third and final book in the trilogy to come out next year.
I then read more of Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon (short stories about minor characters from her big books) and then I read The Kept by James Scott. It started off interesting enough, then dragged once the two main characters reached a town they went to trying to find the men who killed their family. The ending was awful, in my opinion. They never completed what they set out to do. The book ended right in the middle of an important scene. Not in a cliffhanger sort of way, but more like the author got tired of writing and decided to stop, to paraphrase a reviewer. The book came out in 2014 and there's no word of a sequel that I've seen, but I doubt I'd be interested in it if there were a sequel. I gave The Kept two stars at GoodReads.
I'm now reading the next story in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall. It's called A Fugitive Green. It's not all that interesting to me, but I'll keep reading. I'm more than halfway through Seven Stones, so I may as well finish it.
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I've purchased several more songs for my iPod since my last entry.
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I went to Hagan-Stone Park a few weeks ago and took pictures. I'll post those in another blog entry.
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