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Posted on 10/14/2006 8:13:16 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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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.      |
LOL! After years and years of desk jobs and then being a Capitalist Pig, I needed to lose the weight. It got frustrating at times but knowing it was "our" acre helped my attitude.
Hey Par35, looks like this thread gets classified as a "Treadhead" Thread. :-)
Thanks for the congrats. :-)
Every chnace we get we "mention" to the phone company how nice it would be to get DSL in our area, so far they haven't decided to take our suggestion.
Keep your head down and take care.
OMG! I remember the Web-TV people, I guess that was almost as bad as dial-up. We're hoping to find some alternative but for now it looks like we're stuck with dial up.
P I've always wanted to have a place out in the sticks (even if it means having dial up). This is like my dream come true, a great woman, some dogs and land down in the South. It don't get much better, except that "DIAL UP SUCKS!!! ;-)
P.S. Snippy helped around here too
Thanks for some possible alternatives. We'll check them out. :-)
Woohoo! The Foxhole's back!
Morning E.G.C.
Hi Samwise. You all can't get rid of us that easy.
Snippy, you've changed!
Like a bad penny? :^)
It's that "life of leisure" her hsuband lets her live. ;-)
October 15, 2006
READ: John 4:7-14
Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. —John 4:14
In 1981, Ida's Pastry Shoppe in Jenison, Michigan, advertised this special offer: "Buy one of our coffee mugs for $4.79 and fill up your cup for a dime each time you visit."
But the owners never expected that 25 years later, four longtime customers would still be getting their cup of java every day—for 10 cents.
You won't find many deals like that anymore. But Jesus offered something far greater to the woman at the well (John 4:10). He said, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but . . . the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (vv.13-14).
The woman at the well was ready to listen. None of her many personal relationships had ever filled up her emptiness. Then Jesus offered her "water" that would soothe her parched life and give her something more—the promise of eternal life.
That same promise is ours as well. Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).
God's grace and love come from a bottomless reservoir. Drink from the water He offers, and you will never thirst again.
Bible in One Year: Bible in One Year: Isaiah 45-46; 1 Thessalonians 3
Morning, Mayor!
Morning, Sam. How's it going?:-D
Good morning!
"I wish I'd done this when I was 15 years younger."
Time to get back to airplanes.
pinging the dial-up impaired to pics of hubby's latest chore.
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