My son visits - Feb. 2014

My son came up for a visit, mid-February, for a few days as it was his birthday. He and Jeff went out ATV riding at Big Nasty ATV park (where I broke my hand in 2012) and they had a great time. Also above is a picture of my son, myself and my mom (who lives with me). And the last picture is of my son, is dog Enzo and myself when he was leaving. I will be heading to South Florida the end of March to visit with family there...and I can't wait! See ya'll, Jody

Snow at my house - Jan. 29, 2014

The weather man finally got it right - we might get a smidgen or snow. So we did and it was more than I expected. In all the years we were going up to Georgia and in the three years I have lived here this is the FIRST time I saw snow at our property. Even the pool had snow all around it and my hen house got it share of the snow also. We have a light in there though to keep them warm and to extend their egg laying throughout the winter. It was really pretty awesome but I am ready for the summer now so we can get back in the pool! Take care, & see ya'll down the road, Jody

LETS TRY THIS AGAIN..........

Hi Everyone, Hopefully this post WILL go through this time. We thoroughly enjoyed General Coffee State Park (below). The sites are large pull through sites and it is very wooded. Several hiking trails. A great working farm with farm animals. A large lake for fishing or canoeing. There is a nice, clean bath house and there is a washer and dryer. There are two sections in this campground and all sites are pull throughs. I can't say enough about the ranger station and their staff. They were lifesavers as our truck broke down the first night there and we ended up staying an extra night as the dealership could not even look at our truck till Monday. Though they did fix it that day. Anyway, I hope some day you get to visit this nice park. See ya'll,

Gen. Coffee St. Pk, Nichols, GA, Dec. 2013

A funny thing happened on the way to this blog post - nothing worked.......... I couldn't post this for a week. The pics are in the wrong order. My post is totally messed up and no matter what I did (deleting it ten times) still didn't help. 1/2 of the pictures would not post and some of the ones you see - aren't even the ones I wanted. Anyway, Enjoy. This was a great park. I will 'try' to post more about it at a later date! Thanks ya'll..........

Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, GA, Dec. 2013

Jeff and I went up to Douglassville, GA to check out a slide-in Lance camper & to visit his cousins, Linda and Mike who live in Powder Springs. On our way home we decided to stop in at the Ocmulgee National Monument. This is on our way home to Soperton.

We toured the visitors center which is also an archaeology museum. 

There are artifacts displayed here from the time when the Muscogee Indians lived in the area.

The museum preserves the traces of South Eastern Native American culture, including major earthworks which were built over 1,000 years ago.

We enter through these wooden door frames, and travel until we reach the center of the space.

These are called earth fire lodges with the fireplaces. These are used for important meetings and different ceremonial activities.

We later hike to other mounds that are on the premises but these are small than the one above.

We were there probably a total of three hours. There are other trails to hike if you wish too and they vary in range from a couple of miles to 12 miles along the river.

We really enjoyed it.

See ya all later !

Lunch & Hat Party - December 2013

My mother-in-law and I decided to invite all of my husbands aunts who live locally in Soperton to come over for a lunch and a hat party.  I gathered up some hats, and some decorations and a few glue guns and away we went. First though we had a great lunch!  (Okay, the silly sign was MY idea)

But, the lunch was awesome............

And after that we sent the ladies outside so we could clear the table and set up for the decorating.

With glue guns and decorations at hand - it began - and Laura and I had to choose a winner amongst these awesome ladies.

As you can from the pictures below it was a fierce competition:

Sula -

Diane -

Priscilla - 

Laura - 

Me -

And the winner is - Martha -

I think everyone had a great time. I know Laura and I did !

See ya all later...........

Thanksgiving - November 2013

November was a great month for our family.

I was lucky to have my brother, Jamie, come from South Florida for a visit
and also, my mother-in-law, Laura, also from South Florida came for a visit also.

The turkey and all the fixings were great as well as I got a belated birthday cake from Laura.
She makes my favorite which is

Coconut !

Also, I made fudge for my brother (his favorite) and below is a pic of it cooking........

Later on Laura had a recipe for some outrageous drink:  rum, pineapple juice, cherries & the juice and caramel.........it was awesome!

We had such a good time.

My brother got a little 'cold' though when one of the nights out in our RV, it was 21 degrees and he ran out of propane - oops -

Anyway, I hope that your Holiday was as good as ours and we are looking forward to Christmas !

Happy future Holiday!

See ya later on,