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Posted on 10/14/2006 8:13:16 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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 So here we are, in the Deep South, Ochlocknee, Georgia...almost. We aren't in any city, but Ochlocknee is our post office. It's a short pleasant 10 mile country drive to the grocery and the town of Thomasville. We like it out here in the country and this time we plan to stay put for a while, Lord willing and the creek don't rise or the saints... and all that. Direct TV isn't bad at all, although admittedly we rarely watch tv. Dial-up internet is painfully slow. The dogs are good. We have a decent amount of yard fenced off for them with a temporary farm fence. Miss Scarlett loves to chase the bugs out here and on the land behind us lives a young female "Sarge look-alike" named Miss Tilley. Sarge just sits and pines away for her. I'm pretty sure she thinks he's a handsome fella.  Sarge, flirting with Miss Tilley We have poisonous toads here and we have to watch the dogs carefully at dawn and dusk. They think it's fun to play with the toads. Miss feather, we have lots of dragonflies, they like to tease the dogs. It's like they know the dogs can't catch them. We have all kinds of birds, Sam saw a pileated woodpecker a couple days ago, I'm jealous!. We have blue jays and cardinals, warblers and finches and a few different woodpeckers. Roosters crow in the early morning and the woods yield lots of strange sounds at night. The sky is quite beautiful out here, you can see more than you can in the cities and suburbs. It's like camping out only with a house instead of a tent. Oh yeah, somewhere between Oregon, North Carolina and Georgia, we got married to each other...in Florida. :-) We can open burn out here. (note to samwise: with permits!) The past two Saturdays we spent the entire day watching our burn pile burn. Sam has done such a fine job of clearing the land that we have plenty more to burn when the days are good for it. It's a great way to relax.  Gnats, they are horrible at certain times of the day. The road system is good and the people in the nearby towns are what we find here typically, nice southern polite folks. We're mostly settled in and hopefully a time will come when we will be able to fence the entire acre in and the dogs can have free roam of the place, that'll be nice. We wish we could be online more but there is a lot to do and I'm away about 11 hours a day during the week commuting to Tallahassee and Sam is always busy with the chores. And did I mention, dial-up is awful?  All in all, we're blessed and truly enjoying ourselves, the house, the dogs and the area. Now that the humidity of summer is over the weather is quite pleasant. I'd love to share more pictures with you but in case you missed it, dial-up is awful to work with and we can only be on-line one computer at a time.      |
Keep the lantern out
and the dogs penned,
the dragonflies wild, and I'll be in!
I like a queen size bed to roll around in
and six pillows to support various parts
of my anatomy! LOL
Oh my gosh ROTFLOL!
God bless.
Need new glasses. I sure missed this the first time. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs. About_It!
Nice job.. I did this one 8 years ago..
http://www.rusthompson.com/UniLockPavers.html
That is too funny!!!!
Thank you Feather!
Your very welcome Mrs Foxhole...
You don't know how tempting that invite is...
Only thing is that the red glares that we saw were from transformers blowing, not rockets. : )
Yep! Then what do you do with the dirt? Hubby ended up leveling some low spots. :^)
You have no idea how funny that is. Hubby just crossed it off the list we have for the house. It was the last item of a three-page list.
We were just moaning that unfortunately it has taken so long to do everything that some of the things need to be redone. Sigh......
Sure..... as soon as Hubby finishes all his airplanes. He's been working on his Corsair for 14 years.
Guess what he did yesterday. He went to the AMA Headquarters and flew buddy box instruction for a boy scout camporee with 1,200 boy scouts. About 300 to 400 of them went through the line.
I had so much I had to truck it away. I didn't have a problem getting rid of good topsoil around here tho. I borrowed a dump truck from a friend.
LOL, oh, I was hoping!
LOL. I snuck it in just to see who was reading the thread. ;-)
I snuck it in but it is all true.
Brave man your hubby is 1200 Boy Scouts, aye caramba :-)
For those of us who are unenlightend what is "buddy box instruction"
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Buddy box is connecting a second tranmitter to have a master/slave set up. The slaved radio is the one controlling unless the guy in charge flips the switch. "I have the aircraft" in other words.
Thanks, I kinda thought that was what it was.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Just don't use it at a school, a bank or during a traffic stop. ;-)
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