What a great play! The costumes are astounding - the giraffes were amazing (as were all the animals!). The singing was great. There were a lot of children at the performance (the first Saturday of the run) and all were entralled - the two nearest us were ok although I was glad I wasn't sitting in front of one - she was kicking the entire time!
We were able to get in and out quickly and the ride home was uneventful - we were even able to stop in Glen Allen and get the motorcycle and bring it home (I drove the Explorer of course!!). All was well down 64 and through the tunnel but as soon as I got to the Virginia Beach border the smell of smoke was everywhere! I'd forgotten the smell (or I'd gotten used to it) until I'd been out of it for a while - and then it was REALLY strong when I got back!
Oh well, we can hope that we'll have enough rain soon to put out the fires here and in North Carolina!
A great weekend and the start of a hectic week - but it's a short one!
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Burning . . . eyes, throat, lungs . . .
The Dismal Swamp is burning - North Carolina is burning - and all the smoke is here in Kempsville outside (and inside) my house!
Too bad they're not making whiskey - there's peat a plenty burning around here - and all we're getting is watery eyes, coughs and scratchy throats! This morning it looked foggy but it was actually smoke haze in the air . . . between the heat a few weeks ago (with smoke then too!) and the increasing amount of smoke, this summer is stacking up as one of a kind!
The newspaper said that North Carolina officials said that the rainfall from a hurricane would be needed to put out the fires there - peat is up to 12 feet deep. Here in the Dismal it's about 3 feet deep so we DON'T need a hurricane - just 10 inches of rain!! Maybe the rain expected this evening or tomorrow will take some of the smoke out of the air - time will tell!
Oh well - I'll stock up on Sudafed (the REAL stuff), Excedrine and plenty of fluids!
PS - in the klutz department (again), I (apparently) tossed my wrist brace out with some garbage - SIGH. I've gotten another (different) one from Walgreens and will hit the medical supply store on Monday to get another one like the old one! GEEZE
Too bad they're not making whiskey - there's peat a plenty burning around here - and all we're getting is watery eyes, coughs and scratchy throats! This morning it looked foggy but it was actually smoke haze in the air . . . between the heat a few weeks ago (with smoke then too!) and the increasing amount of smoke, this summer is stacking up as one of a kind!
The newspaper said that North Carolina officials said that the rainfall from a hurricane would be needed to put out the fires there - peat is up to 12 feet deep. Here in the Dismal it's about 3 feet deep so we DON'T need a hurricane - just 10 inches of rain!! Maybe the rain expected this evening or tomorrow will take some of the smoke out of the air - time will tell!
Oh well - I'll stock up on Sudafed (the REAL stuff), Excedrine and plenty of fluids!
PS - in the klutz department (again), I (apparently) tossed my wrist brace out with some garbage - SIGH. I've gotten another (different) one from Walgreens and will hit the medical supply store on Monday to get another one like the old one! GEEZE
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