8/4/2014

weekly update 8/4/2014

This week, I did almost nothing. It's going to be hard for me to get back into having people around when Donna, Suzy, and Lisa & Dave get back into town. I may have to try to be social, and that will not be easy. For now, I'm really enjoying doing nothing.

On Wednesday, I decided to knock another item off my summer bucket list, and I went to the SCAD Museum to see the Jack Leigh exhibit. He is a photographer, and his works are actually quite amazing. He is best known for the photo of the Bird Girl Statue he took that is on the cover of the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The statue used to be a marker for a family plot in BC, and I'm often asked about it by visitors to the cemetery. It became very famous after the book was on the best seller list, and fans of the book flocked to BC to see the statue, causing damage to some of the nearby plots.  So the owners of The Bird Girl requested that she be moved and she's now in the Telfair Museum in Savannah. But the photograph is still famous. 

 

Late Saturday night (early Sunday morning, really) lightning struck Mercer Point condos. There was a startlingly loud crash, and I ran outside to the landing, fully expecting to see a fire someplace. I guess Building #3 (I'm in Building 5) and the clubhouse were the hardest hit. I think a TV and perhaps a computer were damaged, and the electricity was off. My lights never even flickered. I walked around Building 3 to see if I could see any damage, but there was none.  The electric security gates were still operational when I went out to open and close BC, but the coded entrance to the pool wasn't functioning. But it was kinda scary.

In a preview of the NFL season to come, the first game was sad. Giants 17, Bills 13. It doesn't count for anything, but I was hoping that there would be a great showing, and we could all get hopes up about the 2014 season. But, instead, it looks as if there's going to be more of the same; it's hard to tell in pre-season, though, so I'm not going to give up. There was a nice interview with Jim Kelly, however, with him talking about his current battle. You can't help but admire the guy. 

 

Without anything to write, really, I thought I might add a photo of the condo as I've decorated it for “summer”. For most seasons, there is some holiday that I can create a theme for. September - the start of the NFL season and my Buffalo collection, October - Halloween, November - Thanksgiving, and, of course, December - Christmas. But mid-summer is a rather dull time of year. I tried to add a few beach items to the table tops and empty spaces, but even that doesn't add much. I've got a couple of pink flamingos, a bowl full of sea shells, some candles, and I made a throw pillow that's supposed to look like a shell. If you look very closely, too, you can just see the tops of the tequila and margarita mix bottles on the counters in the kitchen.