This is getting to be fun!Wanted to show you the photographer of the first photo. That's Bev on the right and we are just fooling around on that same trail, Cooper's Furnace. Yes, there is a furnace and soon I will post a pix of that.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Goofing Around!
This is getting to be fun!Wanted to show you the photographer of the first photo. That's Bev on the right and we are just fooling around on that same trail, Cooper's Furnace. Yes, there is a furnace and soon I will post a pix of that.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
NOW HEAR THIS, NOW HEAR THIS
My first photo to our blog and I cheated!The pix was taken by our friends, Tom and Bev, from Ohio. They are also volunteering at Lake Allatoona, Cooper's Furnace day use area. They are about 15 miles from us. We were hiking on one of their trails when this photo was taken. Tom emailed it to me and voila' I figured out how to get it here.
Next time, I'll try uploading from my camera! Baby steps.......
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Gatekeepers
We have settled in to our life here at Galt's Ferry very nicely. The days go by as fast or faster than they did before. The weather here is superb, mostly sunny days with a chill in the air in the mornings and evenings. Most days have been above 60 degrees with lows in the high 40's. Since we've been here, there has only been three days with rain which is great for Harley riding and very bad for the drought conditions that some areas are still experiencing. The fall colors have been amazing and they say they weren't at their best this year but we thought they were spectacular.
Our old friends from Ohio (that is, friends for many years) Tom and Bev are also workamping at Lake Allatoona. They are about 15 miles from us and they are hosts of the Cooper's Furnace day use area. We get together and compare notes regarding these high pressure jobs we have. Tom was also in the IT business for many years and now enjoys a more leisurely pace!
We recently had a mini-crisis in the family. Bob's daughter Allison was in dire need of transportation and since she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, we thought it would be easier to buy a car for her here in Georgia and drive it up rather than looking for one in Ohio. Well, the process wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. Good, used cars are hard to come by. If its still for sale after 3 days, its a safe bet its a junker. We caught on to that quickly and made an excellent purchase of a Honda Civic. Took it to my sister's mechanic who gave it a clean bill of health and Bob was on his way to Cleveland! He had a great time seeing Alex and granddaughter Taylor and flew back here in time to work the last day of our four day week! While he was gone, I got to be the gatekeeper all by myself and give out the tickets, too! After three days, I looked forward to him coming home, though!
Our Thanksgiving will be spent at my Mom and Dad's place with my sisters and their families. It should be fun as we haven't been together for turkey day in many, many years. We have volunteered to work over Christmas holidays in order to have two weeks off in January to visit Bob's bro Warren in Fort Myers, Florida. That's just a little too far to go in four days even if we took the car instead of the bikes.
This past Saturday we went for a ride to Amicalola Falls. We met a couple, Mollie and Lonnie, who live near our park while we were doing our rounds one day. We got to talking (I know, surprise, surprise) and discovered they rode and they offered to take us up to the Falls. It was a gorgeous ride while being a little nippy in the mountains.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the exciting weekend we had a few weeks ago. We were on duty one Saturday and saw a few Sheriff's cars come speeding into our boat ramp area. We discovered that they were looking for two prisoners that had escaped from the county jail! At the same time, not too far from here the lake was being dredged for a missing person believed to have drowned while fishing. They did find the unfortunate fisherman but we never heard about the escapees. I'm sure they've apprehended them by now or they are long gone from this area, In either case, it made for some interesting conversations!
I have been documenting our escapades with photos and videos and vow to master the technology of uploading to our blog by this time next year. No, really, I hope to be proficient at that very shortly. So until next time, hasta la vista, baby.
Our old friends from Ohio (that is, friends for many years) Tom and Bev are also workamping at Lake Allatoona. They are about 15 miles from us and they are hosts of the Cooper's Furnace day use area. We get together and compare notes regarding these high pressure jobs we have. Tom was also in the IT business for many years and now enjoys a more leisurely pace!
We recently had a mini-crisis in the family. Bob's daughter Allison was in dire need of transportation and since she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, we thought it would be easier to buy a car for her here in Georgia and drive it up rather than looking for one in Ohio. Well, the process wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. Good, used cars are hard to come by. If its still for sale after 3 days, its a safe bet its a junker. We caught on to that quickly and made an excellent purchase of a Honda Civic. Took it to my sister's mechanic who gave it a clean bill of health and Bob was on his way to Cleveland! He had a great time seeing Alex and granddaughter Taylor and flew back here in time to work the last day of our four day week! While he was gone, I got to be the gatekeeper all by myself and give out the tickets, too! After three days, I looked forward to him coming home, though!
Our Thanksgiving will be spent at my Mom and Dad's place with my sisters and their families. It should be fun as we haven't been together for turkey day in many, many years. We have volunteered to work over Christmas holidays in order to have two weeks off in January to visit Bob's bro Warren in Fort Myers, Florida. That's just a little too far to go in four days even if we took the car instead of the bikes.
This past Saturday we went for a ride to Amicalola Falls. We met a couple, Mollie and Lonnie, who live near our park while we were doing our rounds one day. We got to talking (I know, surprise, surprise) and discovered they rode and they offered to take us up to the Falls. It was a gorgeous ride while being a little nippy in the mountains.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the exciting weekend we had a few weeks ago. We were on duty one Saturday and saw a few Sheriff's cars come speeding into our boat ramp area. We discovered that they were looking for two prisoners that had escaped from the county jail! At the same time, not too far from here the lake was being dredged for a missing person believed to have drowned while fishing. They did find the unfortunate fisherman but we never heard about the escapees. I'm sure they've apprehended them by now or they are long gone from this area, In either case, it made for some interesting conversations!
I have been documenting our escapades with photos and videos and vow to master the technology of uploading to our blog by this time next year. No, really, I hope to be proficient at that very shortly. So until next time, hasta la vista, baby.
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