I continued to work at ripping CDs. I downloaded the Plex media server since it works with Sonos and can handle more than the limited directory space in the Sonos system. I can run it on Traviata and let it serve my normal music directory from the hard drive.
This afternoon we had a good Tango lesson with Robert. The beginning of the routine is the part we screwed up this time. I came home and ripped a few more CDs then drove over to my music lesson with Justin at 5:30. We moved to the page with some duets and full songs. He also recommended some long tone exercises for developing breath control. Dinner tonight was the last of the pasta with veggies. Libbie prepared a smaller amount without the ricotta and other cheese to supplement our dinner. We had this with water. After dinner I packed my suitcases for our flight to Providence tomorrow. I got the Plex server installed but it needed to scan the music drive which was going to take a while. I left it scanning and went to back. Will check it remotely tomorrow.

IT's grocery day but since we're leaving for RI this week I didn't buy anymore. I finally got the webforms and views working for the Vintage Violet group and put together a series of pages. I also ripped many CDs of our library into MP#s. The CDEX software makes it easy. Eventually All my CDs will be ripped.
I also did some backups of the Ready Share which is the drive attached to the router for all this streaming. A concern is the amount of space available in Sonos. We may exceed that wo I may be using the Android TV box along with Plex Media server to handle offloading some of the categories. I'm thinking that the Opera and Classical can be offloaded while everything else remains on ReadyShare. I don't know how Plex Media server will work yet. We finally got a lot of rain. 1.31 inches fell in the evening. I thought the rain had passed us by. This is good news. Libbie said she heard the Sump pump running from the Family Room. Pretty Cool! The crawl is staying at 47% even though it's 98% outside. Dinner tonight was more corn on the cob along with the leftover pasta. I have to get up at my computer at 6:30 AM tomorrow to check in.

Libbie drove me to Dr Ira's office when it opened. Dr Amy put dye in my eyes then used a blue light to see the pieces of my lens in the back of my eye. She put some numbing drops on and removed the pieces. It felt so much better. I got a bottle of steroid drops that I have to put in 4 times a day to help the eye heal. I can't wear contacts until Wednesday. I resumed working on the Vintage violets which is a challenge. None of the database entries are showing up in a view. Lots of reading and then I gave up and created a clone site on Glembocki.info to play with membership for AVSA. I also tweaked glembocki.info which contains the TNG genealogy program. This site is working well. I resubmitted the process to transfer bluebirdgreenhouse from godaddy to namecheap. I would like all my domains registered on namecheap for simplicity.
Dinner tonight was the veggie pasta we made from Saturday. I planted the Oleander we purchased from the distress table at Lowes Pittsboro then ran out to Walmart and bought 3 bags of mulch. IT's so dry, the ground was like concrete when I dug. I used the new tiller to remove all the grass and weeds from a patch of ground then used it to try digging. I found the conduit that carries power down to the azaleas. I dug the Oleander hole next to the conduit. We had corn with it and a bottle of Cabernet. We have to stop doing this. The veggie pasta is fine but a full bottle of wine is not. My eye feels tremendously better this evening although it's still a little red.

Started the morning with a contact lens in my eye that seems to be behind the eye. i put another contact in to see but the eye seemed to get worse during the day. I switched to glasses for the rest of the day.
I struggled with the vintage violets. Can't get fields to display from the webforms entries. I also struggled with getting a clone site running so I could play with some PHP stuff to access the website. This too ended in failure.
Finally my last struggle was a success. I transferred the TNG genealogy site over to the new server at glembocki.info. After setting up the MySQL, assigning a User and changing the paths in the settings entry of TNG it all came to life again. Thank goodness for that. I would like to see this become more portable than it is. I like the idea of using PHP for the genealogy. Hopefully my PHP hacking skills will also assist me in implementing a smooth solution for the membership functions on Drupal. After lunch we drove to Pittsboro because the Lowes there was supposed to have eclipse glasses. They didn't but I bought a rescue Oleander. When we got back I moved the ladder to the front of the house. It previously was outside the sewing room window waiting for me to re-screen the window which I did do today and replaced the screen. From the ladder I cleaned the bedroom windows, knocked down the spider webs and washed the screens. This was for both windows. I chose to delay the Oleander planting until tomorrow since I was tired. I continued looking at the webform to content problem once we came back inside. Libbie made her delicious pizza today and used the scraps of tomatoes from our lunches. It was delicious as usual. I had a Killians Irish Red beer as well. My eye is not doing well at all. I think it is abraded and the contact is still in there somewhere. Cloudy milky fluid is leaking out of my eye. I hope the damage isn't too serious.

Nice music lesson this morning. I continue to have difficulty going from A to B in the higher notes. We covered dynamics this morning blowing a note from a soft one to full volume. I got some positive feedback on FB for a change regarding the IOS version of FC. A user reported her photos were restored properly. This is good.
I continued reading about running external programs to mess with the Drupal database. Some of the more important for my purpose articles and clippings I put on a new section of my Life Bits under Drupal tips. I was quite surprised there was no Drupal section in the Life Bits To help with this effort i started transferring files to a subdomain so I could run a clone copy of the website.
There was a minor panic in the late afternoon when Ken Barbi said the MAAVS website was down. The hosting had run out July 25 so i quickly renewed it and one hour later it was restored.
I read in the WSJ about Big box wines and they really liked a Kirkwood Rutherford Meritage. i went over to Costco just before closing and had a long chat with the Sommelier that was there. He was a total wine snob but I enjoyed talking with him. The store was unbelievably packed with people. The lines were long but i stuck with it and bought my single bottle of wine.
I helped Libbie make our latest Cooking Light recipe. They screwed this one up, the video and the recipe didn't match. I eventually found the recipe in a link on the video. the recipe was a Southern Living recipe and not cooking light but quite good. I made the ricotta, Romano and other spices filler. Libbie made the Ziti and chopped the yellow squash and zucchini then roasted the veggies in the broiler. The Cherry tomatoes went in whole. It was a delicious dinner that we had with the Kirkwood Rutherford Meritage wine. This wine reminds me of the Hunt blend that we had at Biltmore.

This was a busy but frustrating day. I t seemed that every time I got engrossed into something I had to abandon it and go do something else. I found a problem with the repair function on the IOS version of First Class. When no repairs are needed the searching message box does not dismiss. I created version 1.4.1 and started the upload to Apple process.

I did a lot of reading about how users are listed on the website. I'm almost thinking I would be better served by own set of custom routines to initially load and then to maintain the website, possibly with a chron job. I need now more than ever to clone the AVSA website to play with.

I did multiple practice sessions with my Clarinet today. I'm still having trouble getting the A to B transition to work smoothly. I'm doing better at hitting the notes on the metronome instead of missing them either early or late. We had spaghetti with cheese for dinner tonight then around 8 we left for dance. Anne Cain wasn't there since she's doing wedding things in Houston but Paul was. We tried our tango routine but we seemed to fail. After dance we went out to the Ale house with the Cains (Paul and Edward), the Rumleys and the Kretchmans. We ordered some pulled pork tacos which were delicious. I had a double barley amber which was good and what I was looking for.

I did a little better on the A to B transitions on the Clarinet. It's a matter of practice and making sure my fingers end up on the holes in the right spots. i spent a lot of the day figuring out how to import userids and passwords into Drupal. There are several choices of import and I evaluated a few of them. Reliability is a major concern. I'm wondering if I should try to figure out how to do this remotely by accessing the MySQL with a Pi or some other server. I can figure this out by taking a MySQL dump before and after adding a User, even a User with special roles. The sky would be the limit with just a little MySQL. In bad news, Kurt reported that the IOS fix did nothing on his iPhone. I'm going to restructure the IOS repair program to give more user feedback. I'll play with the alerts to see what kind of feedback I can give.
I made wings for dinner tonight. We had the wings with a beer, Kilians Red, an old favorite. The Kilians was on sale for 6.99 in Kroger.
I went to bed at 10:30 pretty tired. I was hoping I could get the IOS software reorganized tonight and submitted tomorrow.

Finally got back to the closet in the garage and touched up the paint in spots that needed more paint. I then put a new outlet in this wall and changed one other outlet in the garage, this time on the wall that is due for painting next. I moved the tools back into the closet once the paint dried and the electrical work was complete. Next item on the agenda was the Vintage Violet work. I tried creating a document stating what I was going to do but that quickly deteriorated. I ended up calling Tina after our dance lesson this afternoon.
I got what was needed straightened out with her. Now to do the work!
At our dance lesson we reviewed the second half of our routine today. There's a lot of stuff in there that we could potentially use in our dance repertoire. Dinner was the chicken Waldorf salad again in pita pockets because we had leftover grapes and apple half from yesterday. We opened a new bottle of Mondavi Cabernet and finished the whole thing with dinner. We shouldn't have done that but it was good!
Barbara pointed out that the member number only as a password would be bad because someone could guess a member number and if it worked publish it on social media. Tying the name with the password should reduce that possibility since it would force a person's name to be revealed and tied to the leak.

The following was misplaced but found elsewhere:
I worked all day on the restore function for the First Class for Mobile photos. I found a very nice notification system called iAlert which displays a good looking message on the screen. It really looks professional. I wrote a little routine that deleted a dozen or so pictures then used the repair routine to step through and fetch the picture from AVSA.org. Eventually i will have a photo list with file sizes and the routine will use that to do the checking. It may even be faster but for now this is a stop gap measure. I eventually uploaded it to Apple and jumped through all the hoops there to get it to the waiting for review state.
Dinner tonight was Waldorf Chicken Salad in Pieta pockets with some leftover wine from yesterday.

Continued working on the First Class for IOS app. I eventually got a version working with progress alerts being supplied by the iAlert library. This is a library that is pretty easy to implement and gives a very nice alert. I may try to use this to provide progress updates in the future. I worked on this late into the night and uploaded a version to Apple. I had to do some editing of the cert certificate to use the release certificate instead of the development one. Once i got through all this I jumped through all the right hoops and got it into the review process before going to bed.
Libbie made the Waldorf Chicken Salad today in Pita pockets. This was going to be yesterday's meal but she wasn't up to doing anything hard in the kitchen.

I got a new install file from Joe Bruns for First Class. This allowed me to get my desktop up to date with a version of First Class that was complete with all the photos. I'm using this as my base. I spent the day trying then abandoning an FTP function in the FC for M app. I believe FTP would be faster at file transfers but ended up with HTTP transfers because they work. I'm using a timer set to half second intervals to look for download complete and to kick off the next download. There are 3 retries built into each file download.
I wanted to get outside and finish up painting the closet but was committed to finishing this IOS job up so I didn't. Libbie was under the weather this afternoon so we had a simple dinner of Chinese takeout, the three meat Szechuan. I ran into Kroger and picked up a bottle of CK Mondavi Cabernet. CK Mondavi comes with a screw cap. After dinner i went back to working on the program.

I did some final sanding of the garage closet then painted it with the blue paint. I ran out of paint and ran out to Home Depot to get another can. The color has changed slightly, the new formulation is a darker shade. They removed VOC's from the dye used in the tints thanks to the EPA. I finished the job. Next event was to work on the iPad version of First Class. I found the error in the missing pictures. They were being copied to the private directory instead of into the Vcat directory. I wrote a program to search the directory compared to the SQL database and found that there were more pictures missing then just the bad directory. My iPad is missing around 600 pictures which is disturbing. The people on Facebook were right. Libbie made her pizza this evening for dinner. It was perfect, the crust was thin and crisp and quite an improvement over the awful pizza we had in Atlanta. I continued working on the First Class problem into the night. In the meantime Joyce had a problem with the website while preparing her growing tips. Her PDF wasn't there. Apparently she forgot to save it.

I had my morning lesson with Justin and had problems. My thumb cramped up while trying to do the transition from A to B in the high notes. I had lots of problems doing this. Justin said that this is the gateway to progressing further in the book. Uh Oh. I have a challenge to meet. Practice, practice, practice. I did a light sanding in the garage but decided that I still needed a little more plaster on the crawl space vent sheet rock cover. I put a light coating of plaster in a few spots. Tomorrow I'll sand and paint to finish this job up. There is a FB discussion thread where many people are reporting missing pictures in the IOS app. I started looking at the problem and was able to replicate the problem that Kurt posted, Now i need to find out why the picture is not being displayed. We went to the produce stand in Apex and got tomatoes, corn, peaches and a melon. For dinner we had corn on the cob which is still very good considering it's getting later in the season. We had the leftover ribs from last weekend and Rodney Strong Cabernet along with the corn. The ribs burned a little on the grill because they were still frozen somewhat.

I continued the lighting project this morning. It's warm and very humid outside but I got 5 more lights hooked up. In addition, I moved a wheel barrow of dirt into the tire tracks that the Crawl Space construction crew made in front of the Red Bud on the turn around. Next major piece of landscaping is to move the bayberry bushes back where they are leaning over in front of the big pine and tie them up. I want to install another light here facing the pine.
I finished the lighting but had sever cramps in my hand. Libbie said it was dehydration and google agreed. I drank plenty of water in the evening and also bought some bananas at Kroger to combat the cramps. For dinner we had hamburgers before going to the studio for dance. I danced with the blonde Lisa who is a very good dancer. Not sure what her story is. After the dance we went out to MacGregor Tavern for fully loaded nachos and a Yuengling. Accompanying us were the Hyghs and the Kretchmans. Anita starts work on Monday. I programmed my last Sonoff module and installed it in the garage hooked up to the new power transformer for the Driveway West Lights. I had to modify the power controller since it had a digital timer that did not turn on when you first plugged it in. This was not acceptable since I need to use the Sonoff to power the device on and off. In it's current configuration when the Sonoff would apply power the controller won't turn on. I completely removed the digital timer making the unit a power transformer only. We left for dance at 8 PM and sunset was 8:25 so we didn;t see the lights until we got home. I was thrilled they were all on and mostly aimed correctly. I adjusted the one on the Redbud at the turnaround to aim higher.

Lots to do today. Fired up the chain saw and cut some small trees in the backyard the cut all the saplings along the driveway where I ran the landscape wire. I raked aside the pine straw and then used the tiller to break up the ground before using a combo of the pick and the shovel to clear a trench for conduit. Snaked the wire inside the conduit and ran it under the sidewalk and in the shallow trench then covered everything up and repaired the sidewalk I previously dismantled. The power pack i bought had a digital timer which i did not need, i only want the thing to turn on or off depending on whether power is applied or not. I took the thing apart and threw the digital circuitry into the round bucket. Next i hot wired the 110VAC line cord to the transformer and reassembled everything. I mounted it on the wall and plugged it in to try it. The one light does a nice job of lighting the Cherry Tree. Tomorrow I hope to install the rest of the lights.
My hand is suffering severe cramping this afternoon after the trench work. I don't know what happened. Libbie said it's dehydration which i believe after checking Google and the Mayo Clinic. They said it could be low minerals such as Potassium, Calcium or dehydration. Dinner was hamburger with tomato and Vidalia onion. Our side was Bush's baked beans. After dinner i went out to look at my one light on the Cherry Tree. I'm amazed that so much is lit up with only 3.2 watts. Wow.

Lots to do today. I managed to put out the First Class update then practiced Clarinet. Next it was a trip to Home Depot to get landscape lights and wire.
I reeled off 200 feet of the wire before coming in to hose off for dance. We had another good dance practice. During our lesson Robert's old boss dropped in from the old Arthur Murray studio.
The new Chain Saw came today. I put it together but did not fire it up. i wish I had it this afternoon when I was putting down the wire. I have lots of stuff that i want to trim along the path. Today I was dismayed when I saw a squirrel eating one of our ripe tomatoes on the fence. It's so discouraging. Dinner was spaghetti with Mortgage Lifter tomato added and cheese. It was pretty good. After dinner we went out to Kroger for dish soap and ice cream at Brewster's. I took the opportunity to get one gallon of fresh gas mixed with 2.6 oz of oil for the new chain saw.

This is the first full day back. I practiced my Clarinet and was surprised I picked it up OK. I spent some time organizing , downloading and backing up pictures from the trip. I also worked on the Weather gateway some more, replacing the NTP functions with a more reliable one. Still have more to do. We went to the Produce stand and got watermelon, peaches and other fruits then I did the normal Tuesday groceries. The crawl space is behaving itself although I had to reset the Crawl sensor to get a humidity reading. Not sure what happened there but I will incorporate temp and humidity in the current measuring probe when I get that built. We had chowder for lunch then had a nice dinner of fresh corn on the cob and Waldorf Chicken salad. I spent the evening listening to music and watching some interesting ladies on You Now.

Hampton Inn Hotel breakfast then we packed out things and left for the Carter Center at 9 AM. It was a short drive away on local roads. We paid for our admission at the combination gift shop and entrance tickets. The museum is small and focuses more on Jimmy Carters post presidential activities. We walked through and looked at some of the exhibits as well as watched the movie that told the Jimmy Carter story from Plains to the White House and beyond. The conclusion was what we had thought. He was a decent person but not a very effective President. After the museum we took a walk through the garden in the back that features a pond with sculpture of a young man leading a blind elder in Ghana. There also is a pretty Japanese Gardens and two scenic ponds. The whole thing overlooks the City of Atlanta in the background. We browsed the gift shop then got into the car and started for home around Noon. Google Maps kept trying to take us North on 85 but I wanted to go East on 20 mainly to avoid arriving in Charlotte during rush hour. We went East to Augusta then to Columbia, SC. We hit some very heavy rain on this route. The clouds were all along 20 with some very heavy downpours. There was blinding rain and thunder and lightning which slowed us to 40 MPH or less. Eventually we got out into the Sunshine around Columbia and found 521 in Sumter. We headed North to Route 1 all the way home. It was single lane each way until around Aberdeen but the travel wasn;t too bad. We got to see quite a few small towns but kept going. Eventually we got home at 6:30. We went straight over to Chipotle and used a free BOGO coupon we got from their website which was great. I had a Chipotle bowl with brown rice, onion-pepper, Carne Asada, salsa, black beans, corn, guac, cheese and lettuce. We had this with the leftover wine from yesterday.

After the hotel breakfast we went to the Botanical Garden. I was a lovely morning to be in the garden. The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect. We enjoyed the canopy walk and the well landscaped gardens with an abundance of flowers. The children's garden especially was overflowing with blooming colors. After I got pretty hot in the garden we went indoors to cool off by going to the Longleaf Restaurant. We split a shrimp salad sandwich and the server brought us a pound cake slice on cream sauce with a candle covered in strawberries and blueberries. What a treat. When we left the garden we went the short 1 mile trip to the art museum. Since it was a Sunday we found free on street parking instead of paying $15 for the parking garage. I really enjoyed the Andy Warhol exhibit of a private collector's collection. Wow, it was plentiful. Some of it was really sexual but the majority of it was tame. He was a pop icon. I'm surprised at the number of album covers he was commissioned to do. We did the American and European wing of sculpture and impressionistic paintings. After walking around for another 3 hours we left 1 minutes before the museum closes at 5. It was a great afternoon.. Libbie decided we should have cheese with the wine we brought from home so we stopped bby Publix on the way home and got a block of Swiss and a box of Triscuits.
After hanging out in the Hampton Inn watching 60 Minutes we then drove down the street 2 miles to LaParilla Mexican Restaurant. This is a large well run eatery. We had a Margarita and I ordered the Enchilada De Mare which was 3 Enchiladas with shrimp, Tilapia and Pico de Gallo. They were incredibly tasty. Accompanying the meal were refried beans, cole slaw and rice. Way, way, way too much food. One Enchilada would have been adequate.

Libbie slept in quite late. I appreciated the quiet time to further write the weather program for the Davis Gateway. When she eventually woke we went to breakfast where I had 5 blueberry pancakes and a side of bacon. Wow, too many pancakes. We then took a walk all around the lagoon but on the way there i took a wrong turn and we ended up going all around the estate, a several mile loop. We then checked out and hit the road at 10, somewhat later than I thought we would be going. We altered our plans and decided to do half of the Botanical Garden today and the rest tomorrow morning, allowing time for the High Museum f Art in the afternoon. We were able to check into the Hampton Inn at 1:45. What a letdown compared to the Biltmore but it will be adequate for our stay. We had lunch at a hole in the wall bar consisting of pulled pork with slaw and French Fries. We had a Sweetwater 420 Ale to complement the meal. We then made our way to the Botanical Garden where we encountered heavy traffic. When we got inside the parking garage, the skies opened up and it poured like heck for 15 minutes before clearing. We used an umbrella to make our way to the Welcome Center where Libbie needed to use the facility. They accepted our Selby Reciprocal membership so that admission is free. I was quite tired but we walked through the wet sidewalks and admired the plantings. The gardens are really beautiful, some of the best I have yet to see in a Botanical Garden, even better than Dallas. Later in the afternoon we were tired so left. Met an interesting couple from Alabama who asked me if we would be comfortable in this environment if they developed an outdoor restaurant. It was fun talking to them, she was quite attractive. For dinner Libbie just wanted Pizza and Beer so I found a place called Shortys Pizza, a neighborhood Pizza joint. The pizza needed to be cooked longer in the wood oven, it was tasty but it was quite soggy. Libbie's pizza blows there's away.

Slept until 6:30. Had my shower and did the bathroom stuff then gave Libbie her birthday card while the Keurig cup filled. I drank my Keurig and did eMail while Libbie got dressed in the bathroom. We then went to the restaurant on the hotel second floor which is the floor we're staying on. It was excellent. I had a wonderful stack of Blueberry pancakes with a side of Bacon and OJ. Libbie had the Scrambled egg breakfast with English muffin which came with potatoes and bacon. We took a to go cup of coffee back with us. Our next adventure was supposed to be a walk after breakfast which turned out to be quite hike. We walked along the sunflower field and down the other side next to the French Broad River. We originally were going to take the shuttle back but ended up taking a shortcut walking up 2 hills toward the Biltmore house. 2 hours later we made it to the house and collapsed for a while on the steps. Wow, what a trip. We went over to the adjoining carriage house and bought 2 bottles of water then sat in the shade in the courtyard. We met a guy from Minn. traveling with someone from Indiana and chatted with them. We then did the audio tour of the house which was excellent. It was our first time touring the upper floors as well as the basement. The house is huge and after a while i was getting tired of touring rooms and listening to the audio even though it was outstanding. We met a foursome traveling together and used their phone to take their picture. The first time was a silhouette but the next time we shot against the wall and it was much better. We took a shuttle back down to our hotel but it broke down outside the hotel. We chose to walk the several hundred feet back across the parking lot which was nothing compared to what we accomplished this morning. After washing face and hands we stopped into the tasting room and had a wine flight of 3 glasses and a cheese board. The cheese was excellent. My wines were a Cabernet, a Merlot-Cabernet blend called Hunt Red which was a Blanc de Noir rose sparkling wine which was a nice finish. We then walked over to the Creamery and bought waffle cones and sat outside while a 4 piece string and clarinet band played. While in line in the Creamery there was an attractive young couple in front of us who couldn't keep away from each other. They were kissing and staying close. The guy even rubbed his hand over her very nicely shaped ass. She was wearing shorts that seemed to be a thin material, I'm sure it felt good to him. We next collapsed on our bed for a few minutes. I actually fell asleep while reading but woke up when my iPad fell off my chest onto the bed. I estimate my nap lasted 20 minutes but felt very refreshing. I then gave Libbie her birthday present which was a Lavender Spa set from Los Poblanos Lavender Farm that we visited in Albuquerque as part of an AVSA tour. We got dressed up and chose to drive over to the Restaurant at the Inn. The hotel is quite fancy, people are nicely dressed and a piano and bass were playing while a lady sang in the lobby/lounge area. We went downstairs to the restaurant where they gave us a window table as requested. How nice. Guys were wearing jackets which I did not have. I was wearing a new blue button down dress shirt from LL Bean. We started with a Biltmore Blanc De Noir which is a nice sparkling wine I discovered at a tasting at Biltmore winery. Service was over the top. We had a bread man, a water lady, a wine pourer and our main server, Brian. We started with a course of citrus marinated watermelon with bits of Lobster Tail. Next course was a porcino mushroom dusted Filet Mignon with onion and mushroom over truffle mashed potato. For the main course we had a Biltmore Hunt Red which is a blend of Cabernet and Merlot. It's a good robust very nice red wine. Dessert for me was an Opera cake with various fruits and dollops of citrus. it was incredibly tasty. After dinner we waddled upstairs and sat on the sofas listening to the last of the little trio in the lounge before we made our way down the steps to the parking lot for the drive to our hotel about a mile away.

We had our normal breakfast then I packed a suitcase and gathered everything to leave. I previously loaded the car with gas at Costco yesterday for our trip. We got going at 9:30 in a very pleasant drive West. We made one Rest Area stop then finally got off at exit 55 of I-40 4 hours later. We had lunch at a little hole in the wall Mexican place called Cozella's Mexican. I had a chicken Fajita which was plentiful and delicious. We each had a Margarita to start our vacation. The place was crowded, the parking lot full. It is definitely locally run and very eclectic, almost overdone in Mexican paintings on all the booths, paintings on the windows and everywhere else. It was an enjoyable meal with a good Margarita. Next stop was The NC Craft Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway which as only a very short distance from the restaurant. After looking at the crafts Libbie bought a child's bird book. I didn't care for the paintings very much. There were not very many anyway. We found that there is a craft fair in Asheville this weekend. We next drove to the Biltmore where the gate looked us up and gave us a parking permit with our name preprinted on it. Very cool. The hotel is wonderful. The service at the front desk went above and beyond welcoming us. i found we purchased a bed and breakfast package. The room is very modern, spacious and comfortable. It's a nice facility. We drove over to the Biltmore garden shop and walked up the hill through the gardens to the mansion. Libbie loved the greenhouses at the start of our tour. I liked being outdoors in the garden although it was a tiring walk but very good for me. It's a very hot day also. We got back to the hotel and went to the Village next door and did the wine tasting which was pretty good. We tried about 6 wines, some of them very good and others not so great. My favorite was a Spanish wine Tempranilla which was full bodied and had a very nice Tannin finish. I really liked it. We went back to the room, cleaned up and rested a bit before going back to Cedric's Tavern in the Village for dinner. We went there because there was live music but unfortunately the place was incredibly noisy and the sound was boomy. i couldn't tell what he was playing or singing. We both had fish and chips with a Fat Tire draft beer. After dinner walked to the Creamery but they close at 8 and it was 8:20. two woman with two teenage girls also wanted to go to the creamery and were disappointed as well. This place closes early. We did the short walk back to our hotel room and called it a day, a very nice day.

It was a busy morning. I discovered my Visa from Friday Night's Beer and wings at MacGregor Brew House. I tried driving there but they don't open till 11 AM. Next stop was Costco for wine and gas then Walgreens to get wrapping paper and the 8x10 I had enlarged. Libbie walked this morning but her back was in pain. We canceled our dance class for today but I went to my Clarinet lesson. The studio was really busy. Many people, all kids, were taking music lessons. There were several parents in the lobby waiting. This was quite different from Saturday mornings. I worked some more on the weather program but then decided i needed to go under the house and check out the pipe leak. Surprisingly it had stopped. The tray I put under the leak was totally dry. We made the Shrimp Caesar salad again for dinner. We had it with the leftover glass of wine each from yesterday then watermelon for dessert. The weather program has difficulties. I thought I would be in good shape picking up some NTP code from a guy who harnessed a Moteino to receive packets and upload to Wunderground but his NTP code did not work. I do have working NTP code from ealrier this year that I will integrate into my program.

This was paint morning. Libbie did the cut in work and I got out the roller and painted the walls. Next I installed the light fixture with 2 60 watt LED lights and replaced the light switches and outlets in the room. I missed one outlet and still have one more to do. I practiced Clarinet several times today. I still have not mastered a smooth transition from A to B and C. I'm getting better at B and C but not smoothly transitioning up from A to B. I can go down from B to A smoothly. We made Shrimp Caesar salad for dinner. This was with a package of frozen jumbo shrimp I picked up in Kroger. The shrimp were peeled and deveined and wild caught USA. The salad uses a homemade Caesar dressing with Tabasco, Worcestershire Parmesan and other ingredients. We did not use the Anchovies that are supposed to be in it. I thought it had a predominant lemon flavor but was still good. After dinner I went to Home Depot and bought Phillips head screws to screw the ducts back into the bedroom vents. They are 1 1/2 inch long and I wanted to use the portable drill to hang the vent.

I put two coats of ceiling paint on the sewing room ceiling today. It looks great, no gouges or tooling marks. Yay! 80% of the way through the job i had to run out to Home Depot to get more paint. While I put the second coat of paint on the ceiling Libbie put blue tape on all the trim in prep for painting the walls. While at Home Depot I bought yellow paint for the walls.
I continued to work on the Davis Wx to MQTT gateway. This thing is really needed because the console stopped overnight once again. My standard procedure to get it working again is to pull the USB cable and plug it into another port.
Dinner tonight Dinner tonight was the BBQ pork chops with Asian inspired marinade from Cooking Light. This has sake, soy and sesame and is yummy. Our veggie was fresh local corn from the Apex fruit stand on Davis. The corn was especially good.

I had some difficulty parsing simulated Davis data with an ESP8266 Huzzah. My comma parsing algorithm did not work. i ended up suing the built in string function strtok to locate commas and extract individual bytes from the line. Now I need to convert from ascii hex characters to floats or ints. I did the final sanding in the sewing room and Libbie contributed by vacuuming the place. We're now ready for paint. I'm still having trouble smoothly going from A to the B above the break on the clarinet. I practiced twice today. Next lesson is Wednesday so I have convinced myself I need to have this done by then. Dinner was Libbie's pizza. Surprisingly we did not have cheese in the house, I had to go out before dinner to get cheese at Krogers. I also picked up some Chobani with the crunch ingredients. Libbie had mint chocolate chip and I had the nuts and pumpkin seeds.