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We had Chinese tonight from our favorite little place in town. And of course there were fortune cookies, so here we are.
I like when your table’s fortune cookies fit in a theme. That seems to somehow validate the concept. But here’s the thing:
Even with leap year, this cookie is on the clock.
We’ll see, and I’ll let you know.
A friend was sick and complaining on social media. I leaped to the rescue! With milk and chocolate sauce.
She looked pretty good when I dropped it off at her place, though …
Autumn shows off the rally hat and rally sunglasses ensemble at the baseball stadium:
We gave it a try, and if anyone asks I did not invent the rally sunglasses:
Aubie doesn’t wear sunglasses, so he made it work with Upside Down Batman Goggles:
(I did invent those.)
We are painting. Well, we hired painters. Allie is helping:
At least we don’t have to pay The Black Cat for her painting services. She has paint on her tail.
We took my mother-in-law to the Irish pub tonight. I could go there a lot more than we do, actually. And I want to take their poster home with me:
Which is one of the reasons I took a picture of it. That’s actually a poster of which I’d buy a reproduction. Ordinarily I’d only want the authentic stuff, but that’s a good one. Ireland was amazing, having a poster of it in the office would be a nice reminder. Maybe a motivation to get back.
I don’t know how you rank signs on stairs, but this is way up there, if you ask me:
We finally got the chance to dine at The Olde Pink House. Delicious and worth the wait:
The thing about Savannah is, no matter the time of year, things there are always in bloom:
Back home tonight, though I could stay away for some time. Oh, and I forgot this video about yesterday:
Forsyth Park is full of history. It was created in the 1840s, and was, in a way, an original part of the future plans of Savannah. French and American soldiers camped on the site during the Revolutionary War around bloody fighting in the town. The French started building siege trenches there and, then just two generations later, the Georgia home guard drilled on the park during the Civil War. The town’s Confederate monument is there.
This is where The Yankee I visit every time we come to Savannah. We have a tree. We got engaged there and took some of our wedding portraits there. It is a beautiful place and has a lot of history, and contemporary vitality, too.
At a nearby novelty shop:
Funny t-shirts:
Late, late editions … watch the lights in these Boomerang videos:
Another beautiful day in Savannah. Here’s your proof, this is the Independent Presbyterian Church, organized in 1755:
The original church was built on land granted by King George II. A new church went up in 1816. The English restoration style, features Federal windows, Corinthian columns, that picturesque steeple, and a beautiful sanctuary with an elevated mahogany pulpit. It was destroyed by fire in 1889, but a duplicate was built on the same spot just two years later and the interior is faithful to that period, including the baptismal, which survived that fire and is still used today. President Woodrow Wilson’s first wife was born on the property. The great hymn writer Lowell Mason worked there for a time.
We found some swings:
I created some Boomerang videos:
I like watching the kids in the background. It is hypnotic, really.
Some of the trees in Forsyth Park:
And some of the ads that were hanging at the restaurant where we had dinner tonight. People today sometimes think flight-sweep was about tail fins. And while they do stand out, they only ran for another seven or so years on American roads after this ad. No, flight-sweep was really centered around Virgil Exner‘s lower, sleeker designs, inspiring car designers you still see even today:
Doesn’t this just make you want to fly to Hawaii?
