Comments on: My Confederate Weekend

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:54:48 +0000

hey Paulie – I was just thinking 38 55 only equals 93. You need at least 1 other bike ride this month. Dunkin Honuts & I are trying to possibly plan something for this next saturday morning. (also, we are going to meet at Silver Comet on Wed. but that is so out of your way, I know you’d never want to battle that traffic)

By: Paulie [eatl/ga]

Paulie [eatl/ga] — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:23:08 +0000

Of course Nashville is seven hours away for me because I follow Jill the GPS’ directions. Which reminds me, she has no idea where Office Max stores are in the Atlanta area. I followed her directions twice on Saturday and didn’t find one at either location she brought me to.

I wound up locating one using my phone and they didn’t have what I was seeking (see tomorrow’s blog post) but I found one at the store on Cobb Parkway yesterday.

Oh, she also mispronounces “Office Max” as “Offica’max”.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:22:19 +0000

New Belguim products only 2 hours away!! I see a road trip in my very near future!

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:12:08 +0000

I’ve was meaning to tell you about the Cheerwine I saw at Kroger on Friday when I was buying the hash sodas, and now it is no surprise. Now if we could just get Yuengling here. We did buy a bunch of Yuengling in Chattanooga yesterday for the wheelhopper hash coolers. (How’s that for a carrot to dangle to get you to a Wheelhopper hash?)

And – supposedly New Belgium products are now in Nashville, but we didn’t see any at the Food Lion…… maybe someday, Fat Tire and Blue Paddle only 2 hours away…… we can dream……

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:04:56 +0000

Don’t feel bad Paulie. I have to say I have lived my entire life in the South, and have never been much of a Civil War buff.

I can only tell you we let the Yankees think they won…

-FP

By: Paulie [eatl/ga]

Paulie [eatl/ga] — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:56:57 +0000

For those able to run 5.5 miles the run was great. I not only could not complete that, I got lost! Luckily I had a map and the kindness of strangers to set me right. The liquids were refreshing, the bagels and smears delicious… all that was missing from the meal was bacon.

Sadly, I know very little of our country’s history. I was astonished and awed to see some of the terrain and the monuments marking the history which unfolded on that land.

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:20 +0000

This weekend is the first time the cemetery has been open since the tornado.

Sounds like the run was fun, sorry I missed it.

By: Paulie [eatl/ga]

Paulie [eatl/ga] — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:50:39 +0000

Nick Hornby is a British writer. He is probably best known for the novels “High Fidelity” and “About A Boy” both of which were made into movies.

I got no more than twenty minutes in the cemetery. After the shot I posted today the skies opened up spilling buckets of water. What I did see were some really large trees down. I know that some of the monuments were also damaged, but I was unable to get to those — although I did see one Confederate headstone which was popped completely out of the ground.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:42:24 +0000

Who is Nick Hornby? I’m not familiar…

And how has the cemetary faired after the tornado? I was worried the trees might not have fared very well…

-FP

By: Paulie [eatl/ga]

Paulie [eatl/ga] — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:28:31 +0000

I am on my way! Of course while cleaning this weekend I saw that I own about twenty books (some of which I’ve literally owned for years) that I want to read but have not yet. I think this, along with my need to spend money elsewhere, will push my Kindle purchase back a bit.