Kelly is in College!

Kelly is in Weleyan College. The best college in Macon.
She is excited and happy, and we are just so proud of her.

Kelly got all these scholarships for doing so good in high school and that saved us a lot of money. We still had to come up with some real money though. Real American Dollars! After all, Wesleyan is a private college.

This school has its own horse stables, nature trails, a pond with ducks, gyms, and all the other things that you find in other colleges like places where the kids go party. Oh, they have libraries and those sorts of things too (dorms, cafeterias, ...). I forget to check if they had classrooms.
I guess after these "students" go to the gym, walk around the pond, go horseback riding, check the nature trails, I guess they will have a little bit of time left to learn something in class.
Hopefully, no one will tell them "kids, this is the best time of your life! You don't live with your parents anymore and you have no kids to worry about. Enjoy it now, because when get out you'll be working your butt off to pay bills!"

Gosh, I wish I could just go back to college.

Mushrooms in 24 hours!

I noticed these mushrooms in the flower pot yesterday morning. August 2nd.

They grew this big by early afternoon,

and this big by the end of the evening.

There they are, full blown mushrooms early morning the next day, August 3rd. They'll be dead in a day or two, may be three. They come fast, and they're gone fast.
What do you think of these pics? Interesting, silly, clever, cute or just a waste of time? Post your one word (or more) comment. Thanks!

Our quiet backyard.

Here is Deeeeebbie!
Big flowery lantennas!
A lizard showing off.
Guess what? We now have blue jays coming for visits.

Birds at the feeder, birds at the birdbath

A hummingbird!
A morning dove at the birdbath!
A thrasher!
More doves!

4th of July at Georgia's

Another Price Family get-together. This time, at Georgia's. As always, it's beautiful and pleasant at her Lake house .

Angela and Matt were there. Cary and Martha, Don and Levin, Ricky and Tiger, James, Melba, Joey and Jordan, Debbie and her family, Mama, George and Georgia (the hosts) were there too.

We played croquet, swam in the lake, a lot, and did other fun things like going for a ride in the pontoon boat (nice boat!), played some card games, ate and more fun things.

People were in their good behavior, almost, if you take out some of the cheating at the croquet game, and the pushing of people in the lake! It was all fun.

The food was good! The ride in the pontoon boat was excellent.

Georgia and George put a lot of time in planning everything including "rules and regulations" for an orderly conduct, and assignments. What an organization! Wow! Everybody got to do something and behave.

The water was ideal at the lake and George had good music going on at the lake.


The neighbors gave us a nice fireworks show. The people inside the house playing rock and roll game on the XBOX missed it all. Well, I guess they had fun too.

If you were there, and just read this, PLEASE, pretty please, post a comment and tell us all the other fun things and "not so fun things" that happened over the week end. Debbie and I (with Kelly and Leah) were there for only one day. Share stories! Post a comment. Oh, one more thing. If you have some pictures you want to share, or better yet, you want to post on this blog, just let me know. I'll send you a special invitation to post on my blog. That will just be soooo cool!

It's always nice to get together as a family.
See you at the next party!

Camping Trip

Our first camping trip was a blast. I didn't expect Leah to like it as much. Kelly has been camping already with her youth group. But, it was actually Leah who took walks with me at the park! and she got butterflies to land on her fingers. Of course, Kelly enjoyed it thoroughly as well.

Kelly and Leah at "The little White House" in Palm Springs.

We have been exploring the area that day, but then it started raining. Oh, no, everything is outside at the camp site. We rushed back to "base camp" and actually beat the rain! The rain was moving at 10 mph, and we moved at 70 mph. That made a difference! Trust me.



No one believed it, but we literally "pulled" this tarp from under a tent, slid another tarp underneath that tent, and set up the first bigger tarp as a cover before the rain made it to our side.


This is the day we were leaving and I realized that I have not taken any pictures of that trap cover we've set up. Our very elaborate camp has already been packed and stowed in the vehicle but you can still see the site. Debbie did a great job making a home out of a nothing camp site. We hated to pack up and go home. We wanted to stay for two more days. Next time. What a week end!

Camping at FDR National Park

We're now settled.
This park is very wooded and most enjoyable.
We saw a deer in the morning, Debbie and I, while the girls were still sleeping.

We set up camp pretty quickly, for first timers. Within the hour, both tents were up, the table and chairs set, and the coolers were out. I was ready for a drink, beer or wine, I didn't care.

Now we can really explore around. What a nice park! Beautiful lake, wooded areas with TALL pine trees, you feel like you're camping in nature. The camp site does have bathrooms with showers, unfortunately, I mean fortunately. So, it wasn't totally wild, but close enough.

If you ever go near this place, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The whole area is just beautiful with gorgeous scenery.
I've asked the nice lady at the camp's information desk "if there were one thing you need to see while you're here, what will it be?" She said without hesitation "The Little White House". I didn't expect that answer, but we checked it out, and she was darn right! She knew what she was talking about. Check it out too. Just the video presentation about Frank Delano Roosevelt will make you cry. So touching! How much he loved Georgia and made this place near Warm Springs a lovely retreat.