July 4, 2010
Well some of the family got together for hamburgers and hot dogs and cake. You will have to read Cindie's blog about the cake, I can't tell it as well as she tells it. Zach roped his dad, Moose and Brian into a game of horseshoes. We went to see the DAC fireworks at our regular family place--Burger King parking lot. There were other church members there so we had a good time.
July 5, 2010
Extended July 4th...some had to work, some did not so it just turned into a goof off day. I can't think of a single constructive thing I did. I had dinner with Judy, Jim, Gena. After supper I went to Judy's and we watched a movie.
July 6, 2010
Mike and Moose continued the work on my yard/foundation improvements.
July 7, 2010
Church, which means church history work whether home or at church plus the evening activities--Bible study, snacks, fellowship. Except this week I had to skip Bible study for a committee meeting. I hate that. I now have a computer in my office at church, but I don't know the password.
July 8, 2010
Dentist. Stuff. Forever Young Dinner/Meeting...our program was based on the history of the USO. That was quite interesting.
July 9, 2010
Breakfast with Olive and Charles. Lunch with NMHS teachers. Games and snacks with church friends...I think that is called all-day-party.
July 10, 2010
Lewallyn wedding is all that is planned for the day.
That's all Folks! Until later!
Friday, July 9, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
What Happened to June?
June 13, 2010
Left, riding on a bus, for Savannah, Ga. Spent the week with church friends absorbing the history of a beautiful city. I said absorbing, I did not say that I absorbed all of the history. There is so much more to see. The trip was loaded with History, Heat, and Humidity; as well as Food, Fellowship and Fun!
I had begun reading the Savannah quartet by Eugenia Price. I had read the first book and was into the second book before we left. I knew some of the history I wanted to see. It is a very lovely city. They have done a great job of preserving their history. Some of the historical buildings were destroyed before the ladies of Savannah put their foot down and said, "NO MORE, we are not going to destroy any more of our history." The bulldozers were stopped; AND some of what was destroyed has been restored/replicated. I want to go back and see all the things I did not see while we were there.
FOOD...I think that was the theme for the week. We did our best to follow the theme. Breakfast was at the hotel every morning and anything you could ever want to eat was on the buffet. We ate at Sticky Fingers (Bar-B-Que), Paula Deen's restaurant, Uncle Bubba's restaurant, on a Riverboat cruise, at The River House restaurant. The two meals where we ate own our own--one of them was fast food for a good reason, the other was along Bay Street in another restored building. Every where we ate was in a restored building of one type or another except the river boat.
Some of us went the first afternoon to the 8th Air Force Museum. It was a little way out of Savannah and due to the time frame we grabbed fast food on the way to the museum (the ones who did not go to the museum, well who knows what they ate or did). Along with everything else we could have used more time in the museum.
As always with a tour group there are pros and cons: (1) con: there is never enough time to see everything you want to see, (2) pro: we do get a GOOD overview of the area, (3) a big PRO: we often skip the long lines to get into an establishment and/or we can get into an establishment when others can not. Example: Individual people wanting to eat at Paula Deen's restaurant have to go early in the morning, stand in long lines to get a reservation for later in the day. As a group with pre-purchased group tickets we did not have to stand in line at all.
We went to Tybee Island which is off the coast of Savannah. We toured Fort Pulaski which was a well built and well preserved fort from the very early days in Savannah. We also saw the museum and the Lighthouse Station on Tybee Island, another well preserved and/or restored/being restored part of history. You can go up in the lighthouse, but it is 178 steps of pure heat on a very hot day, so it was not a good choice for the day. One of our group who is in excellent physical condition did go up and was quite hot by the time they were back on the ground. You could not take water with you on this little trek.
While we were on the Riverboat Cruise we saw another of Savannah's forts--Fort Jackson. It is right on the water. Interesting! We did not get to go in this fort. While we were on the cruise we saw other parts of Savannah that we could not see from the shore. We also saw the skyline at night, plus a magnificent sun set over the river. One of our group kept us entertained with stories from previous travels.
We returned on June 19, 2010.
June 20 to July 3, 2010
Laundry, goof-off and a lot of time spent on church history and church library work. I did get a new perm, a massage, and a pedicure.
How is that for a two-week period of time of doing a of total nothing. Oh well, it was fun.
Tomorrow is July 4, 2010 and a few of us will get together for family food and fun time. After that I will try to be more productive so that I have something to write about.
Left, riding on a bus, for Savannah, Ga. Spent the week with church friends absorbing the history of a beautiful city. I said absorbing, I did not say that I absorbed all of the history. There is so much more to see. The trip was loaded with History, Heat, and Humidity; as well as Food, Fellowship and Fun!
I had begun reading the Savannah quartet by Eugenia Price. I had read the first book and was into the second book before we left. I knew some of the history I wanted to see. It is a very lovely city. They have done a great job of preserving their history. Some of the historical buildings were destroyed before the ladies of Savannah put their foot down and said, "NO MORE, we are not going to destroy any more of our history." The bulldozers were stopped; AND some of what was destroyed has been restored/replicated. I want to go back and see all the things I did not see while we were there.
FOOD...I think that was the theme for the week. We did our best to follow the theme. Breakfast was at the hotel every morning and anything you could ever want to eat was on the buffet. We ate at Sticky Fingers (Bar-B-Que), Paula Deen's restaurant, Uncle Bubba's restaurant, on a Riverboat cruise, at The River House restaurant. The two meals where we ate own our own--one of them was fast food for a good reason, the other was along Bay Street in another restored building. Every where we ate was in a restored building of one type or another except the river boat.
Some of us went the first afternoon to the 8th Air Force Museum. It was a little way out of Savannah and due to the time frame we grabbed fast food on the way to the museum (the ones who did not go to the museum, well who knows what they ate or did). Along with everything else we could have used more time in the museum.
As always with a tour group there are pros and cons: (1) con: there is never enough time to see everything you want to see, (2) pro: we do get a GOOD overview of the area, (3) a big PRO: we often skip the long lines to get into an establishment and/or we can get into an establishment when others can not. Example: Individual people wanting to eat at Paula Deen's restaurant have to go early in the morning, stand in long lines to get a reservation for later in the day. As a group with pre-purchased group tickets we did not have to stand in line at all.
We went to Tybee Island which is off the coast of Savannah. We toured Fort Pulaski which was a well built and well preserved fort from the very early days in Savannah. We also saw the museum and the Lighthouse Station on Tybee Island, another well preserved and/or restored/being restored part of history. You can go up in the lighthouse, but it is 178 steps of pure heat on a very hot day, so it was not a good choice for the day. One of our group who is in excellent physical condition did go up and was quite hot by the time they were back on the ground. You could not take water with you on this little trek.
While we were on the Riverboat Cruise we saw another of Savannah's forts--Fort Jackson. It is right on the water. Interesting! We did not get to go in this fort. While we were on the cruise we saw other parts of Savannah that we could not see from the shore. We also saw the skyline at night, plus a magnificent sun set over the river. One of our group kept us entertained with stories from previous travels.
We returned on June 19, 2010.
June 20 to July 3, 2010
Laundry, goof-off and a lot of time spent on church history and church library work. I did get a new perm, a massage, and a pedicure.
How is that for a two-week period of time of doing a of total nothing. Oh well, it was fun.
Tomorrow is July 4, 2010 and a few of us will get together for family food and fun time. After that I will try to be more productive so that I have something to write about.
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