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 ... Going Home Barbie, dolls and so forth, writer's battle, new sheet, birds and sea monkeys, lettuce and tomatoes, Braves get crushed... updates coming soon...

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 ... taekwondo, Rincewind's return, new outdoor table, Summer Xtreme work at the office, Braves lose again, updates coming soon...

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 ...KidPak in morning, Hail Mary, near comeback for Braves, rain, late night... updates coming soon...

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Visit with the parents, fireworks at night, Braves homers... updates coming soon... 

Penultimate to the Semiquincentennial

Them's fancy words in the title.

 

Anyway, we had a nice day today - Mom and I were at the office doing a bit of work, and as a nice reward we were using our gift card to Texas Roadhouse.  The place was packed, but we got our food very quickly and yeah, it was really good.  Mom and I love the Gainesville location.  The service is great, and the food is so good there.  Mom gets this six ounce steak - and Maddie gets that too now.  Maddie orders hers as well done, but Mom gets hers medium.  I order medium too, but today I got the steak salad there which was super good.  

Tonight we had a bit of patriotism going with a few viewings, one of them being the movie "National Treasure," which is such a classic.  Love that one!  The other thing we saw was the President's return to Mount Rushmore, which is so awesome during the Fourth of July weekend.  

Sure enough, there was a fireworks display afterwards, and it was even better this time than the last time I saw it - the lighting and music and arrangement of fireworks was spectacular.  That's one of those things I'd love to see in person.  As is, it's all virtual, including the virtual walk to Mount Rushmore on the treadmill lately.

Anyway, it was a quiet day.  No taekwondo tonight - holiday weekend.  The fireworks are popping out there quite a bit, getting things set up for the big night tomorrow night.  The weather is slightly threatening with random pop-up storms, but nothing serious enough I hope to douse anyone's lans.  

We read tonight, and we got to sleep pretty early.  We read tonight, and we said our prayers afterwards.  Tomorrow's the big day!

Cinderella Puzzle

 

 

Got a little further along on the virtual South Dakota trail here.  Hot day out there.  Look at this little ghost cloud we spotted when grocery shopping:

And here's Maddie, finishing up her Cinderella puzzle this afternoon.  It was a 750 piece puzzle, a pretty fun little project.  

Other cameos are in here, little characters from other movies just making random appearances in the background.  She had fun putting this one together.

It was a decent day.  Braves lost again though, still finding their way with certain pitchers and a lower batting average.  The blood pressure is down, so I'll take that.

We did our reading tonight, still moving forward with the Unseen university's soccer team prospects.  After that, prayers, and a bit of sleep!

Minion

Here's a new Minion, one named Maddie.  She was trying on this inflatable costume for us, because this Sunday we're starting our "At the Movies" series, and we thought it would be fun to have some Minions out there to take pictures with.

We found them at the Braselton Campus, something I've had in storage for years.  We have about twenty of them, donated to us by another church many years ago about the same time as we got our raptor.

They look good there - Mom and I stacked some of those cityscape boxes there for a small backdrop, but with that inflatable Minion in the foreground, it should look pretty nice.  While we were in Braselton, we snapped a few pictures of the KidPak set-up down there, which is looking fun.  They're using some of our Grinch material, plus some of the official church "At the Movies" stuff that's been stored in the warehouse, and easy to recycle.

Our set looks great now, and you'll have to see some of that on Sunday.  We did some driving and some work today.  Tonight's Braves game was a lot of fun, with Ozzie Albies having a really fun game - there was a moment where he slide in to home plate, sticking around there and looking up at the catcher... and winking.  Epic moment!

We did some reading tonight, and after that, it was time for prayers and sleep.  It was a decent day today!