More Summer

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Fincastle

I remember this day. Christian had baseball practice at Breckinridge Elementary School in Fincastle. It was early evening, warm...just really pretty. I love baseball season weather. I brought my camera and walked around the track taking pictures as his team practiced.

Right now as I get this post ready (Monday night) it is 5 degrees with the windchill -17! They cancelled all the schools in the whole Roanoke area early in the day on Monday, for Tuesday. Ozzy is scratching at the door to go outside one more time before bed. Oh, I guess I'll see what -17 feels like!

Linking with Ruby Tuesday

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Winter...

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...to bring you a little summer storm...

As I get this post ready for tomorrow, (it's currently Sunday), they are predicting a little snow for us tonight and in the morning (half inch-inch). We'll see what we wake up to. First day back to school after Christmas break. Will we get a snow day? We'll have to wait and see!

**UPDATE**
Not one stupid snowflake. Can you tell I'm getting annoyed at the fact that we just can't get any snow here? What's the deal. Oh, but we to have record breaking windchills tonight/tomorrow. Looking at the forecast, could be -20 windchills here. What? That's a little scary!

The Other Half of the Picture

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The rest of yesterday's photo. RT 11 in Buchanan. It says "Askeys Mill Gro" on the front but I wasn't able to find out any info. Hopefully someone will enlighten us. I swear the land is slopey there because it looked even in my camera lol. Every time I drive by this I mean to stop and take a photo because I would just feel sick driving by one day and finding it gone and I never pulled over to photograph its existence. Took this on Friday when I took Christian out driving. I made him pull over. Of course he complained a little and told me he wasn't pulling over any more lol...and he didn't ;)

The front of this kind of reminds me of The Alamo...n'est ce pa?

just a little?....

Half of the Picture

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Along RT 11 in Buchanan

I'm not normally a weekend blogger but I'm giving this 365 Project a try. Adding 2 extra days a week shouldn't kill me right?! I just don't get much time to visit on the weekends but I'll try and make my way around eventually!

Random 5 Friday Fences

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A sweet little antique shop, Main Street, Buchanan. Just up a bit from the theatre. Did I go in you ask? No, all those children I had with me protested. But I LOVE the checkerboard tile. Such a welcoming entry don't you think?

For the Friday Fences portion: Does a hand railing count? This one does, I think? Kinda sorta? To see more fences, or ummm hand railings, visit Friday Fences

Random time:

1) Right now I'm drinking my coffee.....BLACK...gasp...I ran out of cream and milk. Actually it's not too bad. I've been weaning myself off cream/sugar by only putting it in my first cup so as I refill it has less and less and then it's practically black anyway by my last cup.

2) I'm reading this right now:


3) I've got to head out shortly. Having Christian drive. Tomorrow is his first actual day as a LICENSED driver. He wants to take my little mini van to visit his girlfriend. In Buchanan. The drive to Buchanan is terrible. One way is Springwood. Although it is my favorite way, it's very rural and narrow, very narrow. I worry about him driving that route. Then there's the freeway. Of course I worry about that too. Driving fast, big trucks...ummm no...then there's 11. I think that's a better drive for him, and me ;) So we are taking it for a trial run today. 11 is a pretty drive too so I think I'll bring my camera along. That will annoy him ;)

4) We watched The Wolverine last night. I liked it.

5) This is our last day of Christmas break. I am going to miss these boys when we all go back to school on Monday. BOO! I really love hanging out with them.

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Have a GRRREAT weekend!

Signs, Signs - Buchanan Theatre

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On Monday morning the Buchanan Theatre was running a special. A viewing of Epic for only $3 per person. It's not expensive to see a movie there anyway, but heck $3 is awesome! I took the boys and we really enjoyed it. This photo though was from the week before when we went to pick up Christian's girlfriend. I've shown you the theatre from across the street HERE and funny, I zoomed in to see what was playing then and Rango was. Epic was made by the same people who created Rango! How ironic!

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I love the ticket booth! And if you look carefully, you can see a sweet couple in the reflection to the left, that's Christian and his girlfriend and you can see me and one of the boys in the booth :)

Linking with Signs, Signs

Be safe if you are getting hit with that monster storm. It's missing us. Supposed to get some rain/snow later but nothing accumulating.

For more info on the theatre CLICK HERE

City Daily Photo Theme Day - Photo of the Year

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Wait, what? Another City Daily Theme Day, another year. Wow...Honestly I'm not a fan of how quickly time flies. As I sit here preparing my post for the theme day, it is almost 9:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Dalton is sitting in the same room as me playing XBox and randomly tells me he loves me. Nick is sitting in the other room with Braden, who has a stomach bug but is feeling a bit better. Ashlyn and her boyfriend are out to dinner together and hanging out and Christian is at his girlfriend Alyssa's house. I'm leaving shortly to pick him up. I told him I'd get him around midnight but Nick doesn't want me out driving past midnight with all the drunk people. He says NYE is amateur hour for drinkers. Those who don't usually drink, over drink. This NYE is so different than all those past. Usually it's a big party with just us, the kids and lots of fun and finger foods and drinks for both the kids and the adults. This year has been real low-key with the older 2 away. Not liking this. Not liking this at all.....

Anyway, back on track...the theme, just like every Jan 1 is "Photo of the Year". The photo I am showing is one of my favorites. I took it at the Pittsburgh Zoo and actually used it for another Theme Day, "Decay" which you can see RIGHT HERE...to see other renditions of the theme, visit City Daily Photo ...and....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!