Goat Rock

Occasionally I check out an online site to look for obscure places to stop by on our travels.  For example, we're probably going back to Grovetown in a months, and I didn't see anything necessarily on the way there (that we haven't seen already!), but when surfing online, I did spot this new entry that happened to be literally less than a mile from Maddie's taekwondo.  What?  So yes, tonight, I dropped Maddie off at taekwondo, and went straight there ...to Goat Rock! 

I've literally walked by this place or parked near it, and of course we drive by it all the time, and just not noticed what this rock actually is.  Well, the placard tells you the reason for Goat Rock's existence, and how the word "goat" used to have a completely different meaning when describing someone.  Apparently, this was a thing you did when you had to go through a grieving process about a loss, in this case an election.  I'm not sure what you did once you got to the rock.  Do you talk to it and share your pain?  Do you scream at it?  Do you abuse it?  This only furthers the mystery!  Anyway, it's been a slow news week so I was glad to see this, easily the most exciting Georgia landmark since Bob the Turkey.

Okay, so as I said the rest of the day was a slow news day.  Maddie was at taekwondo, of course.  Nate was not feeling well again, but Maddie had fun with her friends, helping the class of younger students first, and then joining in with the leadership class and doing a bit of training for the upcoming competition.  We went straight home after that, and Mom was showing me the forecast for snow on Friday night, which looks to be a little stronger than we originally thought.  We were thinking flurries and slight dusting, and it could still be that.  But there's potential for something bigger, as the precipitation has shifted west and put us more in a zone for snowfall.  We'll see how things turn out, but regardless of precipitation, one thing is clear:  it's going to be the coldest we've felt in a long time on Sunday.  It's been several years or more since the temperature was down close to zero.  Windchill will make it feel less than zero.  Wow.

Tonight we finished up "Wonder Man," which is easily the best thing Marvel has put out on television in a long, long time.  It's so fantastic to see Trevor Slatterly back, but Simon Williams is also an incredible new character - there is so much heart in this series, and we binged this series this week, and honestly might binge it again.  Great stuff!

Maddie had chapel this morning, and shared a coffee with Emma this morning on the way in to church.  We rode home together for a bit, but I turned around to get back to the office to get a few things done - we had a guest ministry wanting to see how we did children's ministry, and there were preparations to be made for a new Daddy Daughter event at the church.  Sniff-sniff, because gone are those days of the Daddy Daughter events for me:  we saw the Chick-Fil-A event this year, but passed on it - Maddie's just a little too old for that now!

We worked on our puzzle some today, although we have a good ways to go on it.  I'm enjoying it though.  Mom had some worship music playing on her phone as we sat there putting pieces in place.  It was nice.

Tonight we read from the Discworld, of course.  And we said our prayers, and got to sleep.  We'll be able to sleep in a bit tomorrow.  Sort of - we're still on this schedule with detox pills that require us to set the alarm for crazy times like 3am.  But we'll still manage to get some extra sleep in this weekend for sure.