Searching for activities during a world-wide pandemic for your family to do isn’t an easy task. We’re all looking for fresh air with outdoor exploration to get us out of our houses. We’d visited Build an Ark Animal Rescue in Ellijay, Georgia, for the first time last fall, and on Sunday, we decided to drive up from Atlanta to see the animals again. It’s a large property so being outdoors and wearing masks when necessary wasn’t that hard to do. Susan Littlejohn founded the rescue in 1993 in Rome, Georgia, later moving to the mountains of Ellijay. Photo Credit: Build an Ark Animal Rescue [envira-gallery id=’5456′] [envira-gallery id=’5459′] You can walk around the property to visit with the animals in their enclosures and some like Bella the pig roam freely. Tom fed Bella who’s a pot bellied pig who much prefers fruit over veggies. She allowed me to pet her…
Tis the season for spooky fun whether you’re enjoying alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages. “Hocus Pocus” is a Halloween movie classic so perfect for an entertaining drinking game. Raise a glass along with your holiday goodies. Credit to: HomeWetBar.com I’ll Take Thee Away, Into a Land of the Hocus Pocus Drinking Game
This post may contain affiliate links and we may earn compensation when you click on the links at no additional cost to you. Where do you find your latest books these days? I’ve been discovering and ordering ones that cross my Instagram feed from book reviewers. I enjoy their breakdowns and honest opinions of what’s on their To Be Read (TBR) lists. It’s been my main source since the continuing state of the world has drastically cut down on my trips to bookstores. I dart into Barnes and Noble and used stores if not crowded. In and out. I decided I’d Google top books of 2020 to see what’s new. After scrolling through title lists, I’ve picked 5 out to tell you about today from some key categories. The source I used was FiveBooks.com which is a site where experts and authors make recommendations on what they consider the top…
Oscar Wilde Quote Tee Read what you love! Oscar Wilde – poet, playwright, and purveyor of pleasure – wrote, “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading at all.” Our Oscar Wilde Quote Tee is an ode to reading you can wear any day of the week. Made from 100% cotton with white ink on a gorgeous cool blue, this comfy boyfriend tee will be in your closet’s regular rotation. Come back to it again and again, like all the best stories. We really like the literary printed products from Storiarts and wrote about them in an earlier post. They donate a portion of each sale to a program that promotes love of reading with world youth. We receive no compensation from them other than the happiness of sending awareness about the importance of reading (and style) out into the universe! Use this promo…
The teens and I have spent the summer, and now early fall, watching horror movies. We do our research and been lucky so far in picking decent, if not great ones. We’re only asking for entertainment and jump scares “Ready or Not” is a 2019 movie that we didn’t read up on. We’d heard it was fairly good so we took our chances and watched it last night. It is a fast-paced movie that plays into a lot of horror movie tropes, villains are mostly moronic, and you know what the ending is likely to be. All of this said we liked it. It did its job and provided 90 minutes of macabre fun. Its main saving grace is the lead character played by Samara Weaving, an Australian actress and the niece of the great Hugo Weaving. Hugo is well known for the “Matrix” and “Lord of the Rings” trilogies.…
Been very happy with the 2 cat products we’ve purchased over the past year. We have rescue cats and like to try different things to enrich their lives. This post may contain affiliate links and we may earn compensation when you click on the links at no additional cost to you. They were making a mess with their old drinking fountain – hair and food – and it was hard to refill with fresh water. Saw the Catit Flower Water Fountain on a friend’s Facebook page, read the reviews, watched the video of it in action, and ordered it. You can buy filters for it that keep the water clean and they are easy to keep flushed from any debris. There are a variety of ways to run the water through the fountain. You can set it to run on 3 different settings: Ours flows like a brook but you…
Eating in Chattanooga is a treat if you know where to go. We’ve got our favorite places, but we like discovering new ones. We enjoy passing along our recommendations. Like anything, you might get a hit or a miss with dining. Fortunately on this road trip we found all winners. We’re going to go in chronological order of the recent Saturday and Sunday we spent in town. This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, Poe in Wonderland will earn a small commission for the referral at no cost to you. Champ’s World Famous Fried Chicken on E.. Martin Luther King Blvd. Champy’s is a treat, especially if chicken is your thing. Their delicious fried chicken is made from scratch and savory with their Champ’s sauce and great sides. All of their dishes are made from scratch. We know people who live in Atlanta…
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 black and white classic that wasn’t as lauded when it originally debuted. The premise is a tough one today let alone in 1955. Based on the novel written by Davis Grubbs, it tells the story of an itinerant preacher, the Reverend Harry Powell, turned serial killer who tries to charm a widow out of $10,000 left to her by her executed husband. Her husband robbed a bank, hid the money, told the secret location to his children, and was later hanged for his crime. He shared a jail cell with Powell who gets released and then pursues his prey, mainly the children. The “preacher” is based on a real-life serial killer by the name of Harry Powers who in reality committed far more heinous crimes. Executed in 1932, he was one of the first men in U.S. history to truly be labeled…
One thing I was delighted to find out when I first visited the Poe Museum in Richmond was the fact that 2 black cats live there. They were born right behind the Poe bust in the shrine. How perfect is that scenario? The mama and siblings have long gone to homes, but Edgar and Pluto live at the museum and greet visitors daily in the shop or in the Enchanted Garden. I have not been lucky enough to meet them but really hope to one day. Edgar Allan Poe had a beloved tortoiseshell cat named Catterina. Our family loves cats, and I love Poe so kismet. https://youtu.be/MnP1lO38t1g Photo Credits: Chris Semtner and the Poe Museum From the Poe Museum Website: “In honor of Poe’s love of cats, the Poe Museum cares for two delightful black felines named Edgar and Pluto—the latter named after the cat in Poe’s story “The Black…
This post may contain affiliate links and we may earn compensation when you click on the links at no additional cost to you. Recently, my husband, John, and I enjoyed a weekend at the historic Read House Hotel in Chattanooga, TN. Located at the intersection of Broad Street and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard it is a luxury hotel styled in a 1920’s modern design. Gorgeous inside and out with detailed décor it often serves as an event destination in addition to welcoming guests. It’s ideally located within walking distance to key sites around downtown. You can walk to the aquarium, children’s museum, restaurants, the Walnut Street Bridge, and the Bluff View Art District. Bluff view has several galleries, inns, river views, and dining establishments. Where Read House stands now a hotel property has stood for 171 years. Originally, the Crutchfield House was on the property until it burned down…