Adventure Abound

Started out early Saturday morning on our first long RV trip, we are going with our neighbors Dick and Jane (yes that is their names) to Sugar Mills Creek RV Park in Clarksville Ga to see the leaves change and just hang out. The first day we made it to Eufaula, and stayed in a Army Corps of engineers  camp grounds..it was right on the lake and quite beautiful. In 1963, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created Walter F. George Lake (unofficially named Lake Eufaula) behind the lock and dam of Fort Gaines, Georgia. Eufaula is a beautiful city and has a wonderful history and it is the largest city in Barbour County, Alabama. By the late 1850s, Eufaula's advantageous location on the Chattahoochee made it a major shipping center for cargo bound for the Port of Apalachicola and, from there, to major world markets such as Liverpool and New York City.
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge was established along Lake Walter F. George to serve and protect many endangered and threatened species such as the American bald eagle, the American alligator, the wood stork and the peregrine falcon. The refuge is a major tourist attraction for visitors from around the country.

View from the camping spot

The next night We stayed at a campsite called Country Boys.... After dinner Pierre and I went for a walk and we came across a playground so we seesawed and played on the swings..it was so much fun kinda like being a kid again!

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The next morning we set out early and made it in to Sugar Mills campground.
The drive was breathtaking, at least it was for me, so many trees changing to such beautiful colors. The campgroundis quite nice and they have wifi..yea!
The next day we went to Goats on the roof it is just outside of Clayton Ga and it is a wonderful place. They have the cutest little goats and they live on and off the roof of the houses!🐐Loved it.

We then went to Tallulah, Home of Tallulah Gorge, an ancient, awesome 1000 foot chasm carved over millions of years by the Tallulah River, Tallulah Falls is actually a series of six waterfalls cascading down through Tallulah Gorge. Breathtaking they were! But let me tell you...the stairs! That's right...we did 374 stairs...my legs are twitching still as I write this. It was worth it. The suspension bridge over the gorge was quite fun too..I have never been on a bridge like that and it swayed as you walked on it!

What it means to me to be a Grandparent

I am now a grandma to 4 grandchildren … 2 girls and 2 boys, I am having trouble thinking of myself as a grandma. I never had a grandma growing up so the only images I have are of the television types and they are all old ladies in long cotton house-dresses and glasses with jiggly arms, white hair (ok, blue hair!), bent-over backs, pearl necklaces and earrings, sensible shoes, neat little hats with flowers.
I...on the other hand...love shiny things and pink stripes in my hair.. I wear funky clothes, play Pokemon go..  I have sailed to far away places...and we just bought a motorhome and we are going travel around the USA.
 My daughter is forever getting on to me about the fact that I only wear flip-flops....even when it is cold outside. I love to wear completely insensible shoes.  I love boots. I love to play games...build sand castles..I am easily entertained, I love to walk, skip and dance.
I want my grandchildren to remember LOVE, FUN and SILLY.. that is very important to me because I never had that as a child.
I do not cook, but I am thinking of learning how to bake, that  way I can make cookies, cupcakes and various good things to eat.
I never wear cotton house-dresses, sensible shoes or crooked glasses...(well sometimes my glasses are crooked) I do not want jiggly arms or snow-white hair.  I don’t.  Not yet, anyway.

The two beauties 

Kai

Sammy

The RV with a name!

Kevin from Mo's Graphics came by today with the new name for the RV...we named her Esprit....in French....Esprit means "free spirit." I think that sums it up for Pierre and I...we are real free spirits!
We also became grandparents again for the fourth time...but that does not change how special it is and how excited we are to see our new grandson Kai Orion Nauman. What a beautiful name~right. I am so proud of our daughter and our son in law..... they did good!

Selfie with Kai

What a sweet face!

waiting...post grip

Life continues to throw you curve balls doesn't it? I never thought i would still be here in Panama City this late in the year. Here it is July and we are waiting for the wee grandsons appearance...we had planned to be out of here seeing the country side.. by now, but the news that we are going to be grandparents again kinda stopped us from leaving and the fact that I get to see the birth of this one keeps me here

barn door 

After all the DIY. on the house....it is done now, well...as done as I am going to do!

the new light fixture for thee kitchen

vessel sink

new floor and rug

more pictures from Atlanta

kangaroo

panda cubs (twins)

whale shark

beluga whales

cuttle fish

Shakedown Cruise

We had to take care of some business in Atlanta so we decided to go ahead and take Esprit and make a long weekend of it! We left Panama City around 9:30 am and did not arrive in Atlanta till 5:30pm...traveling in Esprit does take a bit more time so I am going to take that into consideration! We did run into bumper to bumper traffic 34 miles out side of Atlanta..Nuts?? right? I am going to have to get used to seeing more people and cars. We stayed at a campground about 20 miles south of Atlanta and there is so many people it boggles the mind...mine at least!
 There is so much history in Atlanta it dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midway and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus. The stake marking the terminus was driven into the ground in 1837, it was called the Zero Mile Post. In 1839 homes and a store were built there and the settlement grew. Between 1845 and 1854 rail lines arrived from four different directions and the rapidly growing town quickly became a rail hub for the entire Southern United States. During the American Civil War, Atlanta, as a distribution hub, became the target of a major Union campaign and in 1864 Union General Sherman's troops set fire to the city's assets and buildings, saving only the hospitals and churches. After the war the population grew rapidly as did manufacturing, Coca-Cola started in Atlanta in 1886 and grew into a world empire! When the Great Depression hit and it was the Coca-Cola Company that bailed Atlanta out of its deficit.
The Coca-Cola Factory is one of the main tourist attractions along with the Zoo, the Aquarium and the Botanical Gardens. went to all of these attractions, save the Coca-cola factory...we ran out of time.
All and all we had a good time and I am getting excited about getting on the road with Espirt, she did not let us down!

elephants at the zoo

Garden Speech

Lettuce all be kind
Squash gossip and bad talk
Turnip to help your friends
Because that Beets everything
Thought that little poem was cute!

We have been remodeling the house on Center Ave and I have come up with a new saying!
FYI I do not like DIY!
Really this house remodeling is for the Property Brothers!
We gutted the bathroom, pulled up all the carpet in the bedroom, tore out the wall that separated the dining room from the living room, repainted and laid down bamboo flooring. It looks so nice!
We had a crew come out and they tore down the carport and laid down a new concrete pad for Espirit.

harold with Harold

She is now home with us and it is a lot easier to work on her when she is right here.We did take off for a long weekend and we went to St. Joe for one night to visit Danny and Harold Raffield at Raffield Fisheries...we walked along the beach. We then moved on down the street to Carrabelle to visit more friends! It was so nice to get out for a while and Espirit did wonderful! we are planning leaving in the Fall for a trip up the East coast then on to Kansas to visit family! We had to get a new computer and we bought a Dell laptop...the only problem is i do not know how to use a PC, but I am learning...