A Happy Brugger Birthday

Brugger turned older than the hills — again! — today. This past Saturday, we'd
gone up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to celebrate both of our birthdays
(" Blue Ridge Parkway Caching, Wining, & Dining "), but as always, we had our own mellow little celebration at home on the
actual day. For her birthday dinner, she wanted her special "French Onion
Burgers," which include mushrooms, onions, swiss cheese, garlic aioli, and
lots of Worcestershire sauce, so I made us up some. They were delicious. Plus
we opened one of our really good bottles of wine from last fall's trip to the
Pacific Northwest (a Cabernet Sauvignon from
Sigillo Cellars   in Snoqualmie ). And she got a couple of nice gifts from some old
fellow. Me, I headed out bright and early for Danville, VA, to set
up a couple of new geocaches — a Virtual and an Adventure Lab —
in the
Historic River District . While I was setting up the cache stages, I happened upon someone's bank
card lying in the grass in one of the small park areas, so, in keeping with
the theme of rescuing things, which seems to have been my lot lately, I
rescued the card and promptly went out and had sushi at
Tokyo Grill . (Yeah, the bank was right there, so I did turn in the errant card
first, heh heh.)



Anyway, a nice day all around for both of us. Yet another step in the walk to
Last Day. Till the next one...


A few random sites around the River District in Danville:









Eldredge, the Red Elephant, which occupies the shell of the old
Eldredge's Drugstore on Craghead Street














The old Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. building











Left: restored old water tower; Right: Hidden door in a haunted corner of
the River District










Entrance to the old Worsham Street Bridge