Weekend Update

Shawn and I believe in exhausting ourselves over the weekend rather than rest up.  I mean, what is work for but to rest between weekends?  We started off Saturday with our annual pilgrimage to Dahlonega, GA.  Why?  Because it's apple (butter) time!  We stop each trip at R&A Orchards to stock up on apples and cider.  Next weekend I'll be transforming the apples into apples butter.  I like going to the orchard b/c they let you sample each apple variety so that you can put together the best combination of apples for the butter (apples like grapes can produce a different tasting apple from the same tree depending on the weather during the season).  We take the scenic route on the way over.The colors were beautiful even with the cloud cover.  The recession had changed the retail landscape in Dahlonega quite a bit from last year and some old favorites were among the casualties.  But I still managed to find a few things to purchase (it was tough, but I persevered).  

Yesterday when we got home, we wandered over to Ashley Furniture.  We've been talking for a while about 1)how it really is time to ditch the dorm room bedroom furniture and 2)how much we hate the living room furniture we purchased 4 years ago.  We bought a trendy, down-filled sofa and chair and a half.  A chair and a half is a monstrosity of a seating choice that promptly devoured 1) all the extra space in the living room and 2) anyone who sat down in the thing.  Plus with 4 cats, the back cushions on the chair and the sofa quickly became permanently shaped like a U from the cats sitting (and sinking) on them.  Long story short, they were trendy but anything but comfortable.  Well, we found everything we wanted.  This is a miracle because Shawn and I have widely, widely...widely varying tasted in furniture.  He has changed some from our first foray into furniture purchasing.  He has realized we live in a small house where furniture that an NBA basketball star would be comfortable with doesn't fit.  One piece was a closeout so we were able to bring it home immediately.

This is about 5 minutes after we got it home.  As you can see, Twinkie approves.

Sunday afternoon, I had to post bowl for the league since work prevented attendance on Thursday.  I managed my most constant performance yet 109, 109, and 99.  I must say, I've been rather disappointed that I haven't managed a 300 yet.