Frank goes to the Fall Festival

Mostly just pictures in this post, as they tell the story best.  Enjoy.

Ephesus Baptist Church Fall Festival: Monday, Oct 31, 2011

Cute Gremlin #1 goes as some other teenager named "Bob",  Cute Gremlin #2
is a vampiress of sorts, Cute Gremlin #3 is Batman's Sidekick, Robin,
and Cute Gremlin #4 is a mermaid.  Frank got dressed a bit later. 

Frank helps us pick a pumpkin

Frank goes as a mummy

Hanging out with Cute Gremlin #3 Boy Wonder as he eats his hotdog

Cute Gremlin #3 takes Frank on the cake walk.  They didn't win this
time, but Cute Gremlin #2 did it as well, and won some brownies.

Oooga Booga! :)

It's Halloween!  We don't celebrate Halloween, per se, but we do attend this MASSIVE Fall Festival that our church hosts every year.  This is the 21st annual festival.  I've just dropped off these 4 cakes for people to win at the cake walk:

Frank is going with us.  If I'd had more time, I would have dressed him up as FRANKenstein, but I barely had enough time to get all the rest of this stuff done (and some of the sewing still isn't), so ... meh. Jenny Halloween pun fail.  But there is always next year.

I'll post photos on Friday of Frank at the festival (hint for his costume:  I used a roll of toilet paper) and some of his other Autumn-y Adventures.

Today is also the last day of NaBloWriMo!!! I did it! :)

In quick mail news, here is the mail from Friday:

A letter from my awesome Mother-in-law, and a Halloween card from a friend that says "If thinking of you made me any happier..." And the inside says "I'd Glow in the Dark!"

For today's Music Monday, here is my favorite rendition of the Harry Potter main theme.  Drool.  I want to play piano like that!!! Awesomeness!!!  Enjoy your Spooktacular evening and stay safe!

On The Other Side

This is pretty much all Frank has been doing the last few weeks...

I do apologize, but I don't have a Frank Friday post for you today.  This week has been utterly mad; the weather has been rainy and gorgeous by turns, but there just hasn't been anything going on in the way of "Adventures" for Frank since the Classic Cars Show.  I do have some things planned for him.  On Monday there is an enormous Fall Festival at the park that our church puts on.  This weekend we'll be baking cakes for the cakewalk, and Frank will be in the kitchen helping us with that.  I'm scheduled to help at the face painting station at the event.  Some 3,000 people come through this thing, so it should be loads of fun.  The kids will take Frank around to the games and jumpy things for some photo ops.

Also coming up is the opening of the new library.  Lucy Jane will be there for all the festivities, and Frank will be along to enjoy the day.  That same weekend my friend Kristen is performing in an opera at KSU, and our longtime friend Joe M. Turner will be doing his annual Magic On Main show at the Dallas Theatre.  So there is a lot happening very soon for Frank to be involved in.

So for today's NaBloWriMo post, I was thinking about all of the mail I've been sending (and getting from) around the world, and after a little search, I found this cool site that answers a question I've always wondered:
"If I went to the exact "other side of the world", where would that be?"  According to this Antipode Map, the other side of the world from Douglasville, GA USA is... in the middle of the Indian ocean.  Hmm.  The closest land point would be somewhere around Perth, Australia.  It's pretty neat; check it out!  You just move the top map around until the pinpoint is where you are, and the bottom map adjusts to show you the other side of the world!

World photo courtesy of NASA

A Big Milestone!

One of my goals on the list in the right side bar has been realized! Yesterday The Modest Peacock pageview counter hit over 10,000!  Wow!  I hadn't reached even the 1,000 mark until February of this year, so the fact that there have been over 9,000 hits in the last 5 months alone is just astounding!

I'm an unabashed attention hog when it comes to my blog, and each visit has made me feel loved and valued.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I hope I continue to live up to your expectations and bring you good posts about wonderful things. :)

Don't forget that you still have time to enter my giveaway!  Leave a comment on this post to enter and I will be letting Miss Em draw the winner Monday at noon!

Frank Returns to Destin

Back in April, I took Frank to Destin, FL on vacation.  It was actually my very first Frank post, which led to the "Frank Friday" fun that is now a part of my regular (when I think about it and get it in on time) blogging schedule.  You're welcome.

As you probably know (although you can read this post if you didn't) I took another trip to Destin this past week with a friend and our daughters.  So, OF COURSE, Frank got to go with us! :)  You're welcome. (Again.)

Frank says "What are we waiting for?!  Let's go!!"

Wind was kicking up, so we have funky hairdos. :)

Marilyn and Frank

Marilyn offers Frank a sip of her Coke

Frank LOVES the Ocean. :)

I hope I can bring Frank back to the sea side again soon.  I hope one day to bring him to it permanently, as we make our home on a coast somewhere.  Hope, hope, hope!  In the meantime, Frank will keep traveling on Adventures!  :)

Frank's Further Adventures in St. Simons

August 7, 2009
Mine and Jake's 5th wedding anniversary.  We went down to St. Simons again, this time taking Frank and our good friends Charles and Marilyn.

Frank at the SSI Historic Lighthouse

While we were there we ate at 4th of May Cafe.  Be sure to read my past Go Here Thursday post about it here.  Frank enjoyed cuddles from Marilyn and myself while we waited for our food (which was not long.)

While we were there, we saw the 6th Harry Potter movie, which had just come out.

And spent some time at the beach.  I don't have any photos of him under the canopy that day, but I saw these sail boats and I think the next beach trip, I will see if we can rent one and Frank can have a new adventure!

After a long, happy day at the beach, we ate dinner at the Whataburger.

While I was retrieving these photos, I found some from the last Frank Friday that I had missed, so here they are:
July 24-25, 2009

Frank hangs out in the sculpture thingie outside the Glynn Art Gallery

Outside the SSI Lighthouse

In front of the SSI Pier

Playing on the swings at the Pier playground

Frank with one of the SSI Tree Spirits

The whale on the SSI Pier playground thought Frank looked like a good snack.
Don't worry, we rescued him! :)

On our way home, we saw this. :)

Frank's First Visit to St. Simons Island

July 24 & 25, 2009
Not long after we acquired Frank TAA (The Adventurous Ape) in 2009, we took him along with us on vacation to St Simons Island.  Before we left Atlanta, though, a true welcoming to the family was in order. Nowhere in Atlanta says that like The Varsity.  The Georgia Holy Grail of fast food, The Varsity takes the most unhealthy food ever (hamburgers and hot dogs) and transforms it into further artery-choking goodness by dipping it in giant vats of grease.  If you've been to Atlanta, but haven't eaten at the Varsity, then you haven't really been to Atlanta at all!  Here then, is Frank at the Varsity. :)

Once we arrived in south GA, we stayed with my dear friends, Mars and Alan.  Frank wasn't shy:

Alan is a firefighter in Glynn County.  On our way to the beach, we stopped by the station to see him, and he graciously allowed us (and Frank) a tour of one of the trucks!

Do you have a license to drive that, Frank?!

After awhile, we said goodbye to Alan and headed for the beach.  Frank loved the way the sea breeze rippled through his fur, and although he preferred to hang out (quite literally) under our canopy most of the time (salt water being hard to get out of his stuffing), he smiled the whole day.  Me too, Frank.  Me too.

Just hangin' out at the beach. :)

Frank Goes to the Hydrangea Festival

2 weeks ago in Douglasville, Frank tagged along to the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival.  Here he is, having a marvelous time and making new friends. :)

Frank with Linda Britt, president of the Douglas County Art Guild

Frank learns wood turning from DCAG member Steve Pritchard

Frank and I pose with the festival coordinator, Suzanne Kennedy-Huff at her booth.
Not the greatest pic of me, but it was 98 degrees F, and I also had to sneeze.
 But this is not about me, it's about Frank, and he looks fabulous.