Spectacular Weekend
Overall, this has turned out to be one of the best weekends I've had in a long time.
After doing some much needed yard work and front yard maintenence (including washing, sanding, restaining a bench), I was looking forward to this weekend...
Our band's playout experience Saturday at Point Mallard turned out to be a lot of fun. Fun in spite of 93 degree sweltering heat, sound issues, and low crowd attendance (high heat doesn't attract large crowds to outdoor events). Fun in spite of this nagging feeling that I was about to pass out from heat exhaustion near the end of the show...
Afterwards we met up at Market Street Deli (formerly Jemison's, on the river)... GREAT food and a good time to sit down and relax after the show and all the moving around of our equipment. Drove back to Point Mallard afterwards in an attempt to let Kailyn see some of the balloons, but a freak summer thunderstorm squashed that idea. Fortunately, it wasn't raining on our side of town, so we were able to hook up with Kenny and some of the 'youths' for a pool party at the Andersons.
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This morning, we kept the music acoustic...just Jack, Kyle, and myself on acoustic guitars...Stacey on vocals, and Will making his Sunday morning debut on djembe. Whee!
The real fun picked up this evening as we went to Will's family's farm in Hartselle, where we fired off some rounds of various guns in the middle of a cow pasture. Believe me, that's more fun than it sounds. 9mms.... .45s... a .44 Magnum... an SKS, a mini-14... Ballistic goodness. Stacey fired a gun for the first time in her life. I'm pretty proud of her turning her fear of guns into a very healthy respect for them today.
Afterwards, we went back to Will/Helen's house for some Pizza (woohoo! Pizza Hut in Hartselle carries BBQ pizza!). Played some guitar (Will has this old Guild D5 which is very close the the Guild D4 I used to have which was inadvertantly destroyed by a girl in my youth group 8 years ago).
Will discovered a cave (yes, a cave) in his backyard recently. Tonight, we spontaneously decided to check it out. Matt, Will, and I (with only one flashlight) trudged through a field of poison oak, scaled down the embankment, and followed Matt's lead into the cave. The main entrance area made for a good size room (complete with a bat flying around)...but the real attraction is this hole in the ground in this room that may or may not go down a good ways. Will may get a friend of his who's all into spelunking out there to check it out.
My only wish is that I'd had shoes better than Birkenstocks tonight for hiking and exploring a cave. Heh.
Man, so much to report... This barely seems to tap the surface of describing how much fun this weekend's been so far.
After doing some much needed yard work and front yard maintenence (including washing, sanding, restaining a bench), I was looking forward to this weekend...
Our band's playout experience Saturday at Point Mallard turned out to be a lot of fun. Fun in spite of 93 degree sweltering heat, sound issues, and low crowd attendance (high heat doesn't attract large crowds to outdoor events). Fun in spite of this nagging feeling that I was about to pass out from heat exhaustion near the end of the show...
Afterwards we met up at Market Street Deli (formerly Jemison's, on the river)... GREAT food and a good time to sit down and relax after the show and all the moving around of our equipment. Drove back to Point Mallard afterwards in an attempt to let Kailyn see some of the balloons, but a freak summer thunderstorm squashed that idea. Fortunately, it wasn't raining on our side of town, so we were able to hook up with Kenny and some of the 'youths' for a pool party at the Andersons.
...
This morning, we kept the music acoustic...just Jack, Kyle, and myself on acoustic guitars...Stacey on vocals, and Will making his Sunday morning debut on djembe. Whee!
The real fun picked up this evening as we went to Will's family's farm in Hartselle, where we fired off some rounds of various guns in the middle of a cow pasture. Believe me, that's more fun than it sounds. 9mms.... .45s... a .44 Magnum... an SKS, a mini-14... Ballistic goodness. Stacey fired a gun for the first time in her life. I'm pretty proud of her turning her fear of guns into a very healthy respect for them today.
Afterwards, we went back to Will/Helen's house for some Pizza (woohoo! Pizza Hut in Hartselle carries BBQ pizza!). Played some guitar (Will has this old Guild D5 which is very close the the Guild D4 I used to have which was inadvertantly destroyed by a girl in my youth group 8 years ago).
Will discovered a cave (yes, a cave) in his backyard recently. Tonight, we spontaneously decided to check it out. Matt, Will, and I (with only one flashlight) trudged through a field of poison oak, scaled down the embankment, and followed Matt's lead into the cave. The main entrance area made for a good size room (complete with a bat flying around)...but the real attraction is this hole in the ground in this room that may or may not go down a good ways. Will may get a friend of his who's all into spelunking out there to check it out.
My only wish is that I'd had shoes better than Birkenstocks tonight for hiking and exploring a cave. Heh.
Man, so much to report... This barely seems to tap the surface of describing how much fun this weekend's been so far.
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