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.

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

 Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 51th week of 2023? I participated in a Secret Santa Sister group, I got coffee & pretzels for a Christmas present. Daughter's family came over for Christmas. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you more about our Christmas event, come walk with me...

*  Me & Kevin hosted a Christmas hotdog roast dinner party for Daughter's family.  There was also bear ribs & antelope. The youngest Grands changed into adorable comfortable looking matching pajamas. While putting the finishing touches on the food, the kids hunted for candy canes & watched bits & pieces of Kevin's favorite Christmas movie, The Christmas Story. The one about the bb gun. There was a snow shoveling competition & the Grands told their knowledge of the birth of Jesus. The main event, of course, was opening Christmas presents.

The finder of lots of candy canes.
Daughter ready to try some bear meat.

  

Putting the finishing touches
on the bear ribs.

Snow shoveling competition. 

I got new pictures of the Grands
for my frames.

Kevin got 22 shells.

We got a new picnic basket.

 

Christmas Lily Elf says
"Merry Christmas to all, 
see you again next year."

Opening presents.

Girlfriend & Grand

Girlfriend & Grand

  

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 50th week of 2023?  I've battled a nasty cold & cough this week.  Daughter & Coworkers had to be out of work due to their's turning into the nastier flu & sinus infections that required antibiotics. I might have to too before it's all over & done with. Kevin & I had a nice Christmas dinner with Kevin's work crew & their plus 1s. I had the best strawberry cake I think I've ever ate. I had a sleepover with Grands & we did some Christmassy things. Kevin framed a Christmas picture for me & cut boards to go over the sink & stove to make more serving space in our small kitchen for our upcoming Christmas with Daughter's family.  Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you a few more details, come walk with me...

I devoured lots of Christmas treats with Coworkers
this week, that were gifted from Customers.

*  I spent the night with Grands while their parents went Christmas shopping.  We watched Christmas movies including Miracle on 34th Street. I believe! We made Christmas fudge. We made Christmas tree ornaments. We picked up items to make a Christmas greenery bouquet while walking to the mailbox to retrieve a Christmas card.  

We made snowflake & snowman Christmas tree ornaments.

Christmas Lily Elf & Christmas
Elfis Elf came prepared for a
Christmas movie night
sleepover.

 

3 ingredient no fail Christmas fudge - a bag
of semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1 can condensed
 milk, a teaspoon of vanilla. Heat chips & milk till 
melted, mix in vanilla.  It makes an 8X8 pan, no
boiling needed, nuts of choice are optional.

One of the them suggested they go outside to play on the trampoline with the
water hose. Me thinking in a flash that it was 40 something degrees out there.
 They settled for having milk & gingerbread debbie cakes instead.

Happy Birthday to Grand McClain.
I went to his party at the pizza place.
I ate a tasty salad & got my fill of
 pizza from the buffet, including the
chocolate chip dessert pizza. Those
 tickets helped get lots of whoppie
cushions for all that wanted one.

 

 

I got my 4th deer.  Luckily the headlight was
only knocked out of it's socket & didn't
 get busted out. Kevin says he'll fix it.

The Christmas picture Kevin
framed for me.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

 

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 49th week of 2023?  Me & Kevin had a night out on the town. We had Taco Bells $5 Classic for supper then took a walk thru the Town Square gander necking at all the Christmas decorations on display & ended the evening doing our weekly grocery shopping. Kevin got his barrel stove set up in the workshop. I had a day out with the Grands. Sister hosted a cookie bake that lead to Me & Kevin having eggnog & cookies while watching one of our favorite Christmas movies, A Holiday to Remember, starring Randy Travis. Kevin said we'd watched it at least 9 times already. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you what kind of cookies were made & show you Kevin's stove, come walk with me...

Christmas Lily Elf says candy canes are her
favorite Christmas candy & that everyone should
use one as a stir stick in their favorite hot drink.

*  The Town Square's walkways & pavilions are decorated with all sorts of lighted Christmas decorations for all to view free of charge, so I've taken a couple walks to look around. Kevin & I stopped by there this week on our weekly outing to the grocery store.

Good ol Saint Nick & a couple of reindeer are hanging out on the
corner lawn, spreading Christmas cheer to all passerbyers &
 greeting everyone with a Merry Christmas.

The Town Christmas tree, located
in the gazabo, has elves 
frolicking on it's top.

This snowman, I think, is my favorite 
lighted decoration setup up along
 one of the walkways.

*  The cookie bake was a success.  Next year we'll do gingerbread houses.  Sister took charge of the oven, baking her selection of cookie. I came up with a no bake variety of cookie.  I made hot chocolate cookies to share & Sister made different variations of her oatmeal cookies to share.  I threw in gingerbread men from the dollar store because those cookies are pretty good.  We sampled a lot of the cookies warm out of the oven, sister took a plate to the neighbor across the street & we made 3 trays for sharing with our loved ones.

Measuring & mixing ingredients.

Rolling up the dough.

Sister working with Grands to make her monster cookie recipe.

Gingerbread men, Rudolph's
red nose (on the bottom),
oatmeal cookies of different
variations & hot chocolate
 cookies.

 

Rudolph's red nose was my
selection for a no bake recipe.

Sister & Moma made us a scrumptious spaghetti
lunch. The best part, I got to take leftovers for
supper & lunches.

*  I took Grand's out for breakfast at Waffle House then we did a little shopping at Wal Mart before the basketball game & cookie bake.

Proud Nana, the cooks & servers
complimented on how well 
behaved the kids were. 

Shopping for Toys for Tots
donations for their classrooms.

Look how cute we all are in these little Santa hats, rocking around 
the Waffle House Christmas tree with our to-go bag there & 
a vehicle's headlight outside shining the way for us.

The barrel wood stove that Kevin
made to knock the chill off
in the workshop area.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?

We're getting up to 5 eggs a day.