New digs for the Fletchers

A mere six or so months after the Fletchers moved back to "Atlanta" (I use the term loosely since they're further out on the south side than we are on the north), we spent the weekend at their new digs complete with golf carting.

How do I suffer house envy? Let me count the ways: three-sided brick, three-car garage (must have, when possession of a golf cart is practically written into the covenants), nearly half-again as much square footage, four full baths, and approximately half of Kansas for countertop space.

Knowing the Fletchers like we do, you would agree that it couldn't happen to nicer people.

Since this is the first time the Fletchers have been honored with the use of my blog to increase their Google hits, a little background and a few anecdotes may be in order. David and I are fraternity brothers. He's two pledge classes behind me (having pledged as a sophomore), and if UGA had managed a few more pledges as a colony, David would be my "centennial". Or maybe I'd be his. Anyway, Jen and Ginger are sorority sisters, albeit from different schools. David and I roomed together through grad school, and Jen and Ginger roomed together until Jen graduated. We've stayed close friends throughout, visiting them in Smyrna, Asheville, Hershey, and now Peachtree City; in turn, they've stayed with us in Huntsville and Woodstock (we begged them not to visit us in Guntersville, as we couldn't bear to inflict that house on them).

The favorite juxtaposition of this long-term friendship occured in 1997, when we all went to homecoming. Chance and Jack both got nursed in the TV room at the Beta house, while David and I sat on the front steps and drank beer (figure out which of these hadn't changed much since school).

All this to say that they're really hoopy froods and great friends, and we always have a wonderful time with them. This weekend was no exception.

As proof of our sojourn to the wilds of Peachtree City, I present photographic evidence of four boys, all under the age of seven, going all Lord of the Flies on David.

I think Paxton's pretty close to airborn here.