Camping at General Coffee State Park

Setting up camp!
We're getting faster and faster.

This State Park has a very Southern Georgia Coastal vegetation and feel. Including the mosquitoes! Except that we were prepared for the mosquitoes and, this time, we won that battle. The enemies had no match for the "Repel 40% Deet Sportsman Max Formula weaponry!" I could even go shirtless and these mosquitoes stood at bay. Just one little drawback; I may have reduced my lifespan by 30 minutes or so with all that chemical on my body. I guess we'll walk the trails and eat good food to reverse the negative effect of the mosquito repellent. I'll find out when I die: 30 minutes earlier or later, I guess it doesn't really matter.

Did we enjoy ourselves or what?!
As always, Debbie brought good food, and we grilled a lot.

We did bird watching and found some new birds we've never seen before.
Debbie even saw a big owl while we went in a canoe on the lake. I only saw it when it took off, and yes, it was a big owl. Nature is beautiful, and FREE!

I have to confess, we are still newbies at camping, but we quickly became pros at enjoying ourselves.

It was a full campground on this Labor Day week-end and the trails were full of spider webs. Why? Hardly anyone else was using the trails! Can you believe that? All these folks showing up with their RVs and staying in them watching television. I call that "pretend camping". Well, let Debbie and I have the trails, the lake, the animals, all to ourselves. We won't complain.

After seeing so much bird activities, we've decided just to bring our chairs, sit out at various spots, and just watch. And we were rewarded. Of course, we saw more than birds. Want to know what else? Go camping, you'll love it.

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!