Milestone weekend

No, I don't mean the Milestone Club in Charlotte, where I saw the Violent Femmes one week after their debut album came out, and there was no beer until the owner had enough gate money to buy some hot beer at a package store.

This weekend's milestones included a brick.  Tucker had their first ever chili cookoff on Saturday, which was the first time Karen and I had actually walked the streets since the downtown renovation.  We found on the sidewalk where they had laid personal bricks that Tucker residents had bought in years past to help raise funds for the renovation.  Here's ours, Art Works by Karen Finacannon, complete with misspelling of our last name!  Note, Finacannon is kinda like-a Lawrence Welks-a would have pronounced our name, a one-a and a two-a.

The next milestone was our lunch on Sunday.  We went to the Golden Buddha on Claremont Road in Decatur.  Golden Buddha was the first Chinese restaurant I ever patronized, when I was about 15 years old.  My sister and brother-in-law were nice enough to treat myself and a dozen more people who had helped them move.  My brother-in-law ordered a family dinner for all of us.  Being a novice, I didn't know what to expect or to do, and I ate so much appetizer food the first couple of rounds, I was too full to eat anything else, and just hung around outside while others ate.  So Sunday, after driving by the Buddha about 300 times since living here, we stopped.  Had egg rolls, shrimp lo mein, and chicken corn soup, pictured below.  Still good after all these years!