Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? It's coming a nice gentle rain this morning. I've got the door & windows open. It's a very comfortable 69 degrees outside. I set my 4 house plants & the 2 amaryllis bulbs out so they could soak up some of nature's nourishment. I would like to have more house plants put I just don't have the room for them. Clothes are going in the washer & a grocery list needs to be made. I ate lots of birthday cake this week. We got okra & tomatoes from out of the garden. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & we'll talk about birthday cake & some other random things.

Me & Sister took Grands on a
hike to a waterfall last week. It
was interesting & loads of fun.

It's about a 1/2 mile to the falls.

We met quite a few other
hikers along the trail.

There were lots of little butterflies. We
saw minnows in the creek & a spider
web with a big spider on it.

An interesting gnarled tree. We saw
lots of millipedes & different colors
of mushrooms while walking.

The dollar store was putting out
fall stuff. I thought this corn was
cute but didn't know what I
would do with it. Any ideas?

    

 Fall is in the air.

  

I waited for a downpour to slack up to go
in the grocery store. It hailed some to. A
few others were waiting in their vehicle.
We all headed for the door at the
same time.

Elevation 4,784 at the highest
point in Georgia.

Friends Steve & Nancy from Iowa stopped by. They were traveling through from visiting the capitol in Washington DC. Kevin worked for Steve operating heavy equipment playing in the dirt building ponds & putting in drainage systems on farms & things like that when we lived in Iowa. We spent the day shopping around at a flea market, ate at Chic fil a & Taco Bell, stood on the highest point in Georgia, walked on the Appalachian Trail, took a jeep ride & explored the woods. It was very enjoyable talking & catching up.

Overlook on the side of the road.

Needoh, butter squishy &
zombies.

There were a couple snails to look
 at along with rocks, mushrooms &
millipedes.

Cake & ice cream with
Daycare Friends.

I celebrated the last year of being in my 50's with 3 birthday cakes, ice cream & a feast. Kevin brought home a blueberry pound cake & ice cream. I got a garden owl from Daughter & Grands. I got a basket filled with all kinds of goodies from Granny & Sister. Coincidentally, I forgot both gifts at their houses. At least I didn't forget that they had gave me the gifts. I thought about the owl on the way home. When I was unloading the car, the basket wasn't there.

Cake made by Sister for Homeschool Day.

Birthday feast made by Granny & Sister.

Grands mailed out their 1st
pen pal letters.

Me playing in the sand. The
mermaid liked to splash her
tail in the water.

Lake Day

The lake level is down this summer. It is usually
over our heads out at the rope. We've been able
 to walk out there & it's chest deep.

The plants enjoying the rain.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? We're in the dog days of summer. It's been so hot & humid. I worked on homeschool lesson plans & got Grands set up with pen pals. School starts back after Labor Day, so it's still a while yet. I had some thoughts, did some research, put things in my Amazon cart & typed stuff in the Docs folders. Kevin put up peppers & blackberries & worked on a job clearing for a house site. He cooked us some good burgers on the grill. The tommy toes have been coming in. I made a tator tot casserole that I make about once a year during this time. We ate on it for several days. I got the recipe out of a magazine years ago. Crab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll share the recipe with you.

Ray Steven's squirrel in the
church was at the lake. 

This one was made with ground wild hog
because that's what I had on hand & I didn't
have any bacon. It was so good. Be sure to
add plenty of cheese.

Chicken bacon ranch tator tot casserole.
(You can click on the picture & zoom in.)

Grands in the garden
picking blackberries.

  

We got one tiger lily bloom. 

I assisted Daughter with Summer Day Camp
 to an amusement park. This is inside the Wacky
Factory. It was mortifying with zombies,
a blaring train whistle & these wacky lights.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? The 4th was a joyful summer day. Daughter & Grands came over, Kevin got the pond going & I got some tattoos. We ate leftover hotdogs & watermelon for a few days. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & tell me how your summer is going.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? Happy 4th of July! It's my birthday month. The spider lily surprised us with blooms. Moma gave us the bulbs & couldn't remember which color they were. We did some yard work this week & made several trips to the dollar store. We needed new house numbers along with laundry detergent & dish soap. We went on a couple trail rides, did some walking & had picnics. The summer homeschool projects this week were making peanut butter cookies & dissecting owl pellets. I assisted Daycare on a field trip to the aquarium. The kids got so excited seeing the sharks. I'm still in vacation mode enjoying my souvenir coffee cup. After the 4th of July celebrations, I'll be ready to put up the fall decorations. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & we'll walk around & look at the daylilies, they have been so beautiful this summer, then we're going to have a hotdog roast, maybe eat a slice or 2 of watermelon, sit by the creek & watch Grands play in the water this weekend.

 

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

 

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? I went to the beach, celebrated Christmas, explored aviation history & wondered around the grounds of a lighthouse. I was the official poolside timekeeper to see who could hold their breath underwater the longest. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you something I didn't know about the Wright Brothers being First in Flight in North Carolina.

VIP at the waterpark.

The event planners.

Picnics on the beach, digging
holes & catching waves,
 crabs & the football.

Sea turtle nest. 

Go to the Beach card game. Can you pronounce the name of the
state fish of Hawaii? Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.

Make a snowman crafts &
a snowball fight.

Pirate booty treasure chests.

 

         

I've known about the Wright Brothers for as long as I can remember. Seems like it must be one of the 1st things learned in history class being raised up in North Carolina. A few tidbits of information perhaps forgot over the years or maybe never even learned due to not caring about learning much of history anything back then. The Wright Brothers were from Ohio. Dayton Ohio. They did not live in North Carolina. I assumed they lived near the area they did their flying. Nope, they wrote letters to the US Weather Service to find a place that had steady wind, a place with sand or a beach for soft landings & a place where there were few people so they could keep their flying experiments a secret. The 1st flight could have happened from a list of places - Indiana dunes, the coasts of Florida, California, South Carolina & Georgia to name a few. 

The original 1903 Wright Flyer is at the National Air &
 Space Museum in Washington DC.

Seafood boil

  

We had to eat something, so why not? 
 

Crumbl cookies

Duck Donuts

Pa's famous spam
breakfast sandwiches.

Did you know the Wright Brothers lived
in Ohio & not in North Carolina?

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend.

The elves came along on vacation too. 
They did some fishing & caught a shark.