Labor Day Weekend in the Mountains - Saturday

Enjoying the mountains with Alison; Bill will join us today and we will have a little family birthday time this weekend. My significant mid-century mark comes this Tuesday, Bill's birthday (he's beyond the mid-century, just by a bit) is Wednesday. We will dine tonight at the River House Inn - very excited about that. The naming of the mountain house continues to be a priority; we are considering incorporating words from the following: thorn, owl, stone, grey, wind,... and several others. Last night at dusk Alison and I heard our first owls while at the mountain house. It started out as one barred owl, then there were suddenly several at once (two? three?) all in a jumble. A chorus of barred owls. It was fantastic. Something to think about as we ponder the house name. Another activity for the weekend includes hammering out some type of lucid outline for a final paper in my Southern Literature class. Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men and Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion) are the moving targets for this paper.