Earlier last week I received an email from WNCW radio informing me that I won 2 tickets to the Friday night Bruce Cockburn (Co-Burn) show in Asheville. Bruce Cockburn has been around the small time coffee bar circuits for about 25 years. I’m not too familiar with his music but decided to enter the contest anyway. I figure it is better to get free tickets and not waste money on someone we may not like.
We left home around 6:15 Friday night heading for Asheville. Our thought was to get there early enough to get dinner and make it to the concert hall by 8 when the doors open. The first mistake was forgetting that it was the beginning of the Labor Day weekend and the interstate would be bumper to bumper. We were about 10 miles from Asheville when we slowed to a crawl. You know when you think about getting off the interstate to avoid the heavy traffic; well I should have taken the first exit when it first slowed down. We finally made it to Asheville around 7:30 and found a place to eat one block from the concert hall. Gin and I split a pulled pork BBQ sandwich and a smoked turkey wrap at a Cajun theme restaurant.
We finished dinner around 8:15 and walked down to the concert hall. There were about 20 people waiting in line to pick up their tickets at the will call window. We figured we were still early enough to get a seat. When we finally entered the building we realized we underestimated the draw this concert would have. There was not an empty seat in the place. We lasted through 40 minutes of waiting for the show to start and listened to 4 songs before we decided to leave. My days of standing for an entire concert left me 25 years ago. The music was good but not good enough to keep me there on my feet. Hey, it was a free show for us, so leaving early didn’t bother us at all.
Saturday morning I started working upstairs on the driveway side windows. I wasn’t sure how I was going to work the outside part, so I just winged it the entire day. I removed the old windows from upstairs using a crow bar and hammer. They came out fairly easy. Next I trimmed out the area for the replacement windows. New framing was installed to support the new windows and attached to the existing frame work. Gin helped me set each window in place with no major problems in their fit. All the work was done from the upstairs without the need to climb a ladder.
Sunday was a day of recovery (sort of). We made it to the hardware store and grocery store in the morning. After lunch and a nap I cut the grass and trimmed a few low hanging branches. We went for our evening run between rain storms.
Monday was another slow day. We made our running trek late in the morning since we were expecting storms later in the day. We were correct in deciding to run early, since we had three storms come through in the afternoon and evening. I helped Gin hang her new Roman blinds on the French doors and kitchen window. She made the curtains last week during her free time. The curtains look good and will help with shading the kitchen and dining room in the morning.
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