After a great T-day meal at Nancy’s house, we took Mom and Aunt Rusti out for a visit to the cabin…we’d already done a guest shakedown with Chris staying overnight before the Old Rag climb (thanks again Chris, for putting together the IKEA futon!).
With them, we had a chance to try out a couple of things:
1) The bargain filet steaks I found at the Luray Food Lion, charcoal grilled on my new mini-Weber. Complementing the steaks – grilled yellow squash with onions, asparagus, and for openers, bean soup. Desert, pumpkin pie.
2) DVD on the new TV. Nothing special technology-wise here, and still no cable or internet out there. We watched ‘The Holiday’ with Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, and Jack Black.
3) It was a cloudless night with a full moon, and the temp outside got to well below freezing. So our winter plan – new heat, flannel sheets for everybody, carried the day. Nice view of Orion from the brick terrace – the moon was bright enough to cast shadows!
4) We made an inevitable trip to the Luray Wal-Mart…through Leaksville, Virginia. Of note, as there is a family connection to Leaksville, NC and I thought that would be a fun drive.
They left Saturday afternoon, with the first part of their route back to Raleigh following US 211 through New Market and then to I-81…they planned a stop or two along the way, for one thing, looking for apple butter.
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