Who can not love a holiday that requires people to sit and eat? We have had our family dinner today and everyone got to eat their fill, chat with the others and watch a little football. The kids couldn’t have their tractor ride — it was raining, but Andrew sure remembered it from [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Thanks for Stuffing Me
Posted in Family on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does Not Run Like a Deere
Posted in life on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We often drive down a back road to get from home out to Fort Gordon. At one time I’m sure it was a country road. Now it’s only a connecting road, as about half of the houses are empty and deserted. Along the way we’d frequently see a man on a lawn [...]
No Campin’
Posted in camping, travel on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was the weekend we were supposed to go back up to the North Georgia Mountains to the Cloudland Canyon State Park. We were looking forward to another camping adventure. However, as we kept checking the long term weather we realized the temperature was going to be way toooo cold to camp, so [...]
Gone to the Dogs
Posted in Family, pets on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We dog sat over the weekend with Koga, David and Darlene’s Carolina dog. Carolina dogs are hounds, long legged with long upright ears. He is twice as tall as our short little Ginger. I was struck by the similarity to having humans visit to having animals visit. We had [...]
‘A Campin’ We Will Go – continued
Posted in camping, teaching, travel on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re back from the North Georgia Mountains — and yes, it was cold, especially the first night, but not horribly so. However, MacKathy, earlier in the week, made flannel pillowcases for our camping pillows. I found an old flannel sheet that had too many holes to mend, but too much material to [...]