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Hubby and I took drive out to Blandy Experimental Farm and State Arboretum<\/a>. Lots of cultivated flowers, a deer, a bunny rabbit, plenty of tree swallows, and a few cicadas just waking from their cold, rainy night clinging to some plant material. We usually go for a long walk here, but THE BOOT put a damper on that. I walked a little ways on the gravel road and paths around the brick dorm\u2014former quarters for enslaved peoples\u2014where college students study botany and horticulture live for the summer. Blandy is definitely one of our happy places. I wouldn\u2019t mind living out in this part of the Shenandoah someday. Actually, there are several areas out that way I wouldn\u2019t mind having some land in. We took a different route home, passing by an old estate called Long Branch, whose hilarious sign I\u2019ve photographed before. Who doesn\u2019t love a horse retirement wedding? (See pic.) We stopped for an early lunch at the Locke Store<\/a> in Millwood, also a favorite.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember whether I wrote about my first visit to this store in an earlier blog, but some ladies I used to ride bikes with and I stumbled upon it on a long ride one Saturday late morning. Hungry and thirsty, we stopped across the road and looked at the exterior, which was a little dumpier in those days. We thought all we\u2019d find inside this Virginia country store in the middle of nowheresville would be Moon Pies and Mountain Dew. Much to our delight, when we went inside it was like in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy lands in Oz and suddenly everything is in color. It turned out to be a gourmet caf\u00e9 and shop that does great food. It\u2019s our go-to now whenever we\u2019re in the area (well, there isn\u2019t much else around, so we don\u2019t have a choice). They make their living off wealthy Washingtonians and surrounding suburbians, along with all the famous people who own horse farms in the valley. Apparently, Tom Cruise and Robert De Nero are\u2014or were at one time\u2014among them.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, I went to see the Nationals play the Giants in DC with my sister and bro-in-law. It was the perfect day for a ballgame, even if it was only 7 innings (because of a double-headed from a rain delay). The Nats beat the number one ranked Giants, opening the first inning with a home run. In the second to last inning, they always have the Presidential Run, where guys in giant foam suits representing past presidents (Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Big Guy Taft) run a race part way around the field. Enjoy the video. On the way back to the car, we saw a shop called Scissors & Scotch. It appears you can get have a drink and then get a hair cut, or the other way around. I’m not sure what order I’d choose; an interesting combination, anyway.<\/p>\n

In all, an enjoyable day. I\u2019ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

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