April showers & all the rest

April is still bringing in some rain and cold weather but Jeff is moving right along with the front porch. Slower than he had hoped but weather and work hold you back sometimes.

Even though the pool temp is only in high 60's Jeff couldn't resist jumping in after a hard days work. He is first person to go in our new pool.........

Our friends, David & Donna,  from North Carolina were able to stop by on their way back home to North Carolina and Jeff took them out back to ride our ATV trails.

It was a short visit but it was nice to see them again.

Everyone have a great spring & summer and Happy Trails !

Mistletoe State Park, Appling, GA

We are so lucky we get to go camping this 3rd weekend of March. We went about 2 hours away, NW of Augusta to Mistletoe State Park.

We arrived close to sunset and the pic below shows the view behind our camper. The next picture is our site, #41 which was a great site right on the water. This park is on Strom Thurmond lake. We stayed at a ACOE park a few years back on another spot on this very large lake, which was in Modoc, SC.  It is a great park if you can ever get to it.

Most sites are nice and wide and long and a lot of them are right on the water. Really beautiful!

Behind our camper was a nice lagoon, where you can fish and my dogs could play in the water.
There is lots of boating going on here with many boat ramps. There is a swim area and beach shack for the summertime. There are pavillons you can rent for gatherings. Just a real nice park.

We also took a two mile hike, right from the campground area itself, with our two dogs. There are several others trails also, one totaling about 3 1/2 miles and another one over 8 miles.

It was a great, albeit, short weekend, but we'll take what we can get...........

See ya'll down the road,

Continuing the front Porch - March 2013

After being in our home two years we are getting around to starting to build the front porch.

We actually did the brick work and steps and concrete columns in October. Jeff started a new job that month and it has really occupied his time so he is just now starting on the porch again.

Hopefully he can start to get the roof boards down soon.

We can't wait to have a great porch to sit on. (As you can see my mom is already out there,
supervising the work!)

See ya'll later,

Asheville, NC - Feb. 2013

I went up to Asheville to visit my friend Sherry and help her and her daughter and grand baby move west to Canton, NC.

It was a 4 bedroom, 2 story house that we moved ALL by ourselves.....I thought it would take 3 days  but it ended up taking us 5........WOW, we were really tired after that !

It was snowing and cold.........but we finally got it all done.

Some time for the grand baby (Willow) to have something to eat.

She IS adorable !!!  But outside it is snowing.......brother, it is snowing........

Back at the hotel it is still snowing and cold..........

But we got the job done and I headed for home.........

See ya'll down the road .

New Years Company - January 2013

Our RV traveling friends have come to pay us a visit in this New Year. Unfortunately dad (Rob) has to stay back and work, but Jane, Jordyn & Robbie are here !

Here is mom & Jeff getting ready to chow down !

We all sat down to a great dinner (with a little wine.....)

Jane and Jordyn are trying to figure out her new camera. 

Below is Jordyn on my ATV.

                                                      Here is Robbie & Jane  on Jeff's ATV.

Can't wait to see you guys again - if we can ALL stay healthy -

Jody - broken hand
Jane - broken arm
Rob -  broken finger
Jeff  -  don't you dare !

See ya'll down the road

Christmas - December 2012

Hi Friends & Family,

This is my last post of 2012.  It has been a good year for the Phillips/Thorpe household.

My mom is still with us and hanging in there even with all her medical problems.

Jeff got a great job with great benefits.

But most of all - we are all healthy and happy - living here in Georgia.
Life IS good !

We had family & friends visit over the Christmas Holiday. My mother in-law brought her friend Sandy and we all had a great time shopping and getting our manicures & pedicures for the Holiday!

My brother, Jamie, came up from south Florida also - it was great to see him again........

Jeff was in the kitchen tending to our 21 lb turkey. It was huge and turned out perfect.

Below is a picture of my brother, my mom and myself.  Most of the time they were here the temps were in the 20's at night and 40's during the day.  Great Holiday weather !!

I hope everyone had as good a Holiday as we did and from our family to yours we wish you a wonderful, happy, healthy and wealthy New Year .................

See ya'll later,

Jody & Jeff

My 60th birthday present - 11-20-2012

I told the hubby that I wanted something "BIG" for my 60th birthday. Never had a big gift and I wanted something special.

He asked what I wanted (BIG mistake) and so I told him " I want a pool. "  SO, guess what?

I got it.  Here are some pics of the stages of delivery & set up of our new saltwater, fiberglass pool:

As you can see in the picture above, it was a tight fit between our trees.

The picture above shows that the pool is off the flatbed and now the crane has it hooked up to place in the yard.

Now the pool is in place. They start to fill in the sides with sane. I will it up with some water & they fill in with some sand. All this done until pool is completely full.

Pool ready and dirt ready, now it will get formed up and the concrete Kool-Deck will be poured.

Concrete deck is being poured, then the color goes on.

Color is on and when it hardens, the plastic comes out of the pool. We continue to fill up and then the pumps get hooked up.

Finally it is done!  Now if only it weren't 60 degrees IN the pool and 45 degrees in my yard.
Dang............guess it'll be late spring before we can get in it  ! !

See ya'll later ----  Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ---

I doubt I'll be posting before the new year..........as I have lots of company for the Holidays ! ! !