A Fall Day in Governor's Land ~

As usual, the photos post in reverse order so the day's story will be a leetle backwards, picture-wise.
This morning we had a nice visit with Tim & Valerie Cook, old friends from legal circles; Tim was at DoJ when I was a young pup at FAA and then went to CA to seek (and make) his fortune as an avn plaintiffs' lawyer. He was also prez of LPBA when I was asked to take over as Editor of the Journal. More recently, it's developed that they're good friends of the Hesses, a Wycliffe family in Papua who are good buds with the Moxness clan.
Anyway, they have a daughter here in the Burg and so came out to see us before heading north to Annapolis (to which they plan to relocate from LA). We had a nice visit and enjoyed showing them Greystone on a spectacular Fall day.
Afterwards it was so beautiful that we headed out for a half-lap of the golf course/marina loop, and then came back to check for a missing cookbook aboard the A/Bus.

I fired up the engine, the aux generator, and all the A/Cs to exercise everything. "I think I'll take it out for a spin," I said to M. "Want to come, or want me to drop you at the house?" Then it occurred to me it would be a great day for another A/Bus Picnic down by the James, so we loaded up on salad makings and headed on down there. We had salads and then sat outside reading books, looking out over the river and marsh and colours.
Caroline called as the sun was sinking low and we had a nice chat. Her soccer team had a great but exhausting run at the league championship over the weekend, losing the final game 0-1 after playing to near-exhaustion in the semi-final just before -- in the snow. She sounded good and we're looking forward to seeing her at Dr Brado's for Thanksgiving.
We came home and I dropped off M before putting the A/Bus to bed and walking home as darkness fell. A spectacular day.

We went back for another of the revival/healing services at the UMC and it was full. The guest preacher told the story of a three-day session he was to conduct in central Illinois at another small evangelical Methodist church that was so successful that it continued six nights a week for 27 weeks a couple summers ago -- until the Methodist bishop for that synod fired the host pastor and ordered the church to immediately stop the services. People were showing up at 10am to get a seat for the 7pm services. Can't have that going on.

Turns out that the library theater gig we're doing on the 22nd is now being promoted with radio spots on two of the Burg's FM stations. Dwight & Robin say they're coming ~ and they haven't even heard the spots!

Time for bed.