A very nice weekend

The Book Club meeting on Friday afternoon was great, with all of Susan's pretty Halloween decorations, wonderful food including mini quiches on which I over-indulged, and a banana nut cake with peanut butter sauce to die for! The book discussion was fine, too, concerning the Cormac McCarthy book, The Road. We forgot the door prize drawing, which is about status quo for this group--we get so involved in the discussion, which usually occurs in the second half of the meeting, that we forget the extras. Anyway, Suze emailed me and said she drew names from those who attended, and I won the door prize! A new issue each of Southern Living and Country Living magazines, plus a little jack-o-lantern with candy corn. Sophie's canine friend Daisy was visiting at the house, and proved to be a loving little pet.

Then Saturday, Jed arrived from points north where he worked Friday, and we ate a good old home-style lunch at Cracker Barrel. Saturday evening Jed and I sat around and dissected, analyzed and reassembled the world economy, so let's hope everything gets better, or at least doesn't get any worse.

Sunday noon we chowed down at Chili's in Trussville, then later on visited Ramey and India up on Hawk Hill. Pat wants us to have a sort of family 1950's Nerd Festival sometime soon, which sounds like crazy-fun; I might recite the Redneck Visit from Sandy Claws. And we could have a pickin' and singin' group a la "The Darlings" on the Andy Griffith show.

Jed headed back to Atlanta about 4:00 p.m., and I started packing a couple of books to mail tomorrow to customers. Pat gave me a stack of books, all of which I listed on Amazon for nice prices.

Mo and Owen Wilder (he recently told me his first name) are doing as fine as cats can do.