Goodbye to Ryan

During the last two weeks we have served as hosts to Ryan Hill, a talented young veteran of many political campaigns who came in to assist Wendy Davis's effort at election to Congress. We enjoyed having Ryan with us even though the final two weeks of a Congressional campaign does not allow much social life for its workers. We usually saw Ryan very briefly during breakfast in the mornings and sometimes for a few minutes at bedtime -- providing that bed time came around midnight.

Our longest visit with Ryan was today, after yesterday's painful ending of our beloved candidate's 2022 political quest. Ryan rode with us to Acworth's legendary Henry's Louisiana Grill where we met Wendy for a delicious lunch before he left to visit Atlanta friends for a couple of days. He will fly home to South Bend, Indiana on Friday. 

Henry's was a real treat. I had the Louisiana Ooh La La which was chicken, oysters, and crawdads in a delicious sauce over pasta. Sheila had gumbo. We also shared  some hush puppies. All the dishes came with a salad and a sweet/peppery cornbread and small slices of a sourdough bread. It was all delicious.

A passerby agreed to take our picture afterwards in front of Henry's as we said goodbye.

L-R: Ryan Hill, Wendy Davis, Terrell Shaw, Sheila Shaw. 

Lunar Eclipse

Our houseguest, Ryan Hill, remined us that there would be a lunar eclipse tonight and a quick trip to the porch showed the full moon rising beautifully over downtown Rome and shining down on our old house between the neighbors pecan and our magnolia.

My iPhone camera is amazing but it is not the best choice for astonomical photography. Here are my pictures in order as earth's shadow nibbled at the bright disk.

Just a bit of the lower left of the moon's disk is gone in this first iPhone picture from the porch.

Now the eclipse is almost complete.

Finally we climbed the levee to watch the moon turn reddish. Gradually mist moved in and it was barely visible. Then clouds and it was gone.

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Meanwhile farther to the east the sky was clearer. Here are some images shared on Facebook by 

a Mark Robert in Blue Ridge, Georgia, who took advantage of clearer skies and, obviously, a better camera:

A New Housemate

Yesterday Oostanaula House became home for a temporary resident, Ryan Hill. Ryan is working for Wendy Davis's campaign to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene as US Representative for the 14th District of Georgia. We are very pleased to support Wendy's campaign, and to give Ryan a place to live as he works down the street at Wendy's Rome office.

Here is Ryan posing with Sheila and the nice bouquet of flowers he brought us.