Asheville, NC - Hiking

While visiting my friend, Sherry, in Asheville this past week we took a drove to take a hike up to Max Patch, which is part of the Appalachian Trail. Her daughter and her boyfriend went, along with their new baby, 8 week old Willow.

This is a picture of Sherry & I once we were near the top of the mountain where we were going to fly kites!

And this is a picture of Sherry's daughter, Jennifer with beautiful little Willow.

Here is a picture of Willow taking a nap after filling up on her bottle.

As it turned out, Ian was the only to 'go fly a kite' and we just watched and ate lunch!

See ya'll later !

Sunnyside ATV Park, Wrens, GA

Let me start out by saying that this IS a duplicate post. Somehow the original one got lost.

So, to start over: This is Sunnywide ATV Park, in Wrens, GA. This is about 1 hr 15 mins from our house. It costs $20 per bike to ride all day. There is a small cafe on premises for when you must quinch your thirst of have a burger. Also there are Jiffy-Johns to use when needed (bring your own TP - I did and glad I did so!)



This is one of several chalk mines that was currently working mines within the park.

Notice the ATV way down near the chalk mine pit. This gives you an idea of how big these areas are.

This is a pic of Jeff tackling the downside of a large hill on his own.

As you can see from the picture below, we used our bike helmets, as we don't have any enduro helmets yet.

This is a picture of an actual hill we came down. May not look impressive but it felt like it when going down it!

A picture below of ME on the ATV........it was such an awesome day. This park has 50 miles or riding trails. Some open areas like this, some muddy and some not. So much fun...........

Family from South Florida visits

Jeff's mom came up from Plantation, FL to visit us last weekend along with her boyfriend, Izzy.





Izzy picked up his cousin, who lives in Houston, TX, but was working in the Georgia area. They had no seen each other in quite a few years. It was a nice reunion !

Jeff and his mom are discussing her ride out back on our property which Jeff had just recently completed a lot of trails on.

She said she really likes riding the ATV and plans to come back soon for more extensive riding. Hopefully by then I will have my own ATV and we can go out together.

My little doggies, of course, could care less about all the activities. They are just happy to be resting comfortably on my day bed (which they are NOT supposed to be on).........

See ya'll later on........

My Visit to South Florida

I set off on my visit back to south Florida to see family and friends. I get a call my first afternoon heading south that my mother-in-law was having emergency eye surgery. I rushed to Plantation to pick her up to take her to hospital and back to her doctors the next day. My visit was to also include seeing my son (having 'just' missed his birthday two days before).

Lucky I did get to visit with both of them. Unfortunately my husbands' mom, Laura, wasn't feeling so well after her eye surgery. My son had to work so I squeezed in visits with him during the week and saw him lots on the upcoming weekend.

I also went to visit my friend Evelyn & her husband, Gary. I know Evelyn from my working days as she also worked for a trauma/general surgeon and we did lunch & the usual gab sessions!

I was able to sneak in a few hours to visit my former boss, Dr. Lakin, at his home. He retired shortly after I left his employ but it was wonderful to see him again. His wife, Arlene, is still working hard at her law practice in Margate, FL.

On the drive back, north on I-75 this blimp blew over and I just had to snap a picture. I had no idea the Navy had a blimp ?!

When leaving the parking lot where I got lunch I see this sign in the lot next door. It seems you can do you laundry AND get Mexican food at the same time. (Such a deal..........) Maybe next time !

Oh well, back home now, and back to reality. I am glad I got to visit every one.

I miss you Laura, Larry, Evelyn, Gary, Dr. Lakin & Arlene !

See ya'll

Our friends visit from Virginia

Jeff and I were lucky to see some of our friends from South Florida who are visiting us from the Virginia area where they have family and are on their way south again.

Unfortunately our dear friend, Rob, the 'daddy' in the group,could not come with them this time around.

But Jane, Jordyn and Robbie did and we are so happy to see them again! The picture below was taken out back on our property.


Jane and Jordyn went for a ride on Jeff's new 4x4 Polaris. He spends more time with it than me now........



Jeff took Jordyn for a ride out back on the property where he has been blazing some new trails.

Then it was Robbie's turn - as you can see they are both having a great time.

Later on the kids were relaxing and playing with Scruffy and Ginger. My doggies miss them when they aren't here so they make the most of it when they come to visit.

The picture below might need 'some' explanation. Jane was making lasagne (yes, she really can cook!) and we decided to have a little drinking game. Each time someone said the word lasagne we had to take a sip of our drink. I am not saying what was in the drink, just that we found it necessary to take lots of sips and by dinner time we didn't really care what that danged lasagne tasted like...........I'm just saying...........

see ya'll

A visit to Coward, South Carolina

Jeff and I went to Coward, South Carolina to visit our friend Al, who farms approximately 100 acres there. Most is land his family has owned for years and the house on the land is the one that he and his five sisters grew up in.

While there we attended a farm equipment auction. There were other items there too but mostly farm equipment.



As you can see from the picture below there were lots of tractors, sprayers and combines there and they were going for some BIG bucks !




Jeff and Al are seen here contemplating which item to bid on. We and Al bid on a few. We walked away with nothing and Al got one item.

Look at this tractor below, it has eight wheels. Bet that is a large bill replacing those tires !

The picture below shows Jeff sitting in a combine - not that we need one mind you - but always fun to sit in anyway. (It had air conditioning, I think that is why he was getting in it)

Besides the auction, Al decided to take us to every buffet in the surrounding cities. We had a great time visiting with him - bit I really didn't need the extra five pounds in five days treatment....

See ya'll !

Hunting Island State Pk, So. Carolina

What a way to wake up in the morning !

We were lucky this weekend to get away for 3 nights to this great state park right on the ocean. It was cool at night about 45 degrees or so but nice during the day around 65 degrees or so.




The sand is hard packed enough to ride bikes on and when we did we found this huge horse-shoe crab. We took it back to the shore as the tide had brought it in but I am sad to say it never moved into the ocean

We hiked about 1.6 miles in the woods to the lighthouse and nature center. Then hiked about a half mile back to the campground on the beach. There is a lot of erosion and a lot of downed trees but the view was still something to see.

Below is a pic of me with the 'girls' (scruffy & ginger) as we walked along the beach. They loved it very much and had a great time.

Below is a picture of the road in front of our campsite, #57, and below that is a picture of our actual campsite. We were lucky not to have very many neighbors around us. It was very quiet.

As you can see Jeff looks very relaxed and serene as he looks out over the calm ocean.

Jeff and I found a really nice seafood restaurant named Johnson Creek that had fantastic food. I had fried shrimp and he had a grouper sandwich. They also had hush-puppies with honey butter and they were unbelievable!

Look at all the dollar bills stapled to the walls. Everyone who comes in staples one and, of course, we had to also......

As you can see from the picture below - every morning is a beautiful morning at this beach.

We can't wait to go back again!

See ya'll later !!