Awbrey Arboretum

We visited the Awbrey Arboretum this weekend, where we saw this Mountain Laurel:

The $19.95 U-Haul

We recently rented a U-haul van to transport items to the local Goodwill donation center. Indeed, we filled the van with excess clothes, furniture, and other household goods, many of which were too large to fit in either of our cars.

The side of the van noted the $19.95 daily rental price. With insurance (required by U-Haul), the mileage fee (over sixty cents per mile!), the gas, taxes (city and state), the total exceeded seventy dollars. I hate hidden fees.

Pretty Battlefield

Last Saturday, TBH (The Better Half) and I went to the Brandywine battlefield, a Pennsylvania state park that was the site of a revolutionary war battle. The park was disappointing, from the movie that displayed a visually incorrect and sanitized version of the war to the reconstructed house that had no resemblance to the one that Washington, Greene, and many of the other prominent American generals had used as their headquarters for the battle.

But the trees were in bloom and looked wonderful. :-)