FIRST WEEK of WORK

THE FIRST WEEK IS ALM OST OVER AND WE SURE ARE EXHAUSTED... we are working on threee houses all at different stages...monday was martin luther's birt5hday so we had the day off then on tues it rained in the afternoon about 2 so we were told to go home after a quick clean-up...we were on our way to the truck and the sky opened up and poured for several hrs..a much needed rain for the area...

today thurs the team i was on was to tyvek the house and it was a job that took all day ...but it finally got done amen...

lar worked on hurricane clips that also took him all day and they were special ones and a job that was a one person job...

the weather has been warm needing a light jacket in the morning but by 10am it is time to strip down to a short sleeve shirt...

it is a good group of people to be working witrh..there are 6 couples we have worked with before and another are all new habitat people..a couple of single ones a good mix of people...

this weekend we are planning on a bike ride then a dish to pass gathering...fotball on sunday then back to work on monday...

BUSHNELL, FL

the campground we are now at has several citrus trees around the park...this afternoon while talking to the manager weasked about the trees and he said we cojuld help ourselves to what ever we could use...he didn't mean fill our rig with the fruit but enough for breakfast etc...so lar pciuked his pockets full of kumquats--then we picked several grapefruits and aranges...just enough for a couple of days..

also in the campground we have 3 sand hill cranes who seem to have made the park their home...they just wonder in and out of the rigs and pay no mind to us people...it is their home so we just need to stayh out of therir way..

it has been on the cool side so insteado of biking we areenjoying the heated pool...the last couple of days we have spent at least an hr in it...at home we would look outside and see snow but here just spanish moss coming down in the trees..

we hear that upstate has snow hope you are enoying it...

ANOTHER ADVENTURE

lar and lar gashing the suckers that we ate...i must say the fish were rather tasty not like i remembered as a kid and my dad would go sucker spearing then we ate them...the bones were in every bite you took but these by gashing them there were no bones...so we had to go south to find out how to do this trick...then of course the southern way is to deep fry them which also made them good but not for my cholestrol...but i ate them and enjoy them...
had a good time visitng with mem and lar and mem relatives...

of course you can see we really did go biking and it was good to get on the bikes and get some exercise and not riding in the truck for hrs...alls well..

oh heard that you are getting some snow back north...enjoy it...

COLQUITT, GA

today finds us in bainbridge, ga...what bring us heere are some of our habitat friends frm virginia who are here for a wedding and helping out a cousin get ready for it..bainbridge is on our way to dade city the way we are gong so we decided to stop by for a visit to see the area that they were raised and brought up...as we were driving along the road we get a call from mem who asks us if we have gone thru a twon called COLQUITT no we said then look up and see the sign for the town...mem tells us we really ogut to stop and take a walk thru town as it is the mural capital of the us...so of course we stop to take a look at all the murals and i mean there were on just about every building and each one had a story of it's own telling about what the pictures was all about...so a very interesting stop it was..we even saw how they used to dry peanuts..we didn't eat any cause i'm sure by now they aren't so good...who knows how long they might have been there..

tonight we have been invited to the cousin house for dinner...lasagne-salad-now who would so no to that...sounds good to us...

DAY AT THE SAW MILL

we stopped in beauna vista, ga to visit with steve white and help him out for a day or two with his saw mill...he runs a custom cutting saw mill...either you bring your logs to him to cut or just order what you might want and he cuts it up for you...so he put us to work..that's steve on his trusty tractor ---lar working the edger---ginger and i also using the edger while lar was busy helping steve with some really big logs...a very interesting operation...he will also ake his saw mill to your house if you have enough logs cor him to cut to make it worth his while...

FIRST VISITORS

are second night was in pigeon forge, tenn and we weren't set up but less that 5 minutes and here come some visitors...of course looking for a hand out and the only thing we had was some cheerios..they didn't seem to mind as lar had them eating out of his hand..wondeer do you think they have done this before...

that is us traveling along the highway...along 81

ON THE ROAD

we did get on the road on wed but not after looking for the cell phone for 454 min...when pasking i asked lar where the cell phone was and he wasn't sure so we looked...not that anyone has our number and no that we use it much we just like to have one in case of emergency...we finally decided that we could buy anotehr one...can you believe when picking up our coats low and behold there was the cell phone...then unhooking the electric from the house the cokrd was frozen enough that we could not wind it up to fit in in't storage space..so we had to warm that up ...

then we pulled out of the driveway finally on the road..stopped for breakfast...not going to stop there again..breakfast not so good...

then as we were going donw the highway lar notivced that the running lights we not on...and of course no wher to pull over until we got to a rest area..a couple of ladies trackedus down to tell us we had no running lights ..told them we knew it and that the plug from rig to truck has jiggled loose...pushed it back in so back in business...

oh another snaffo we bought a new device to be able to use wi-fi called a mi-fi 2000 or something like that..lar then tried to install it in one of the lap-tops 2 1/2 hr later hee finnally did it...amen...

up and out yesterday with out any problems..made it all the way to pigeon forge, tenn...

we are glad we hadn't taken off on tues as parking lots in winchester, va were ice covered...talked to a young lady who told us that they had lots of sonw and yuchy weather on tues so we were behind it...

yesterday oing down 81 we saw lots of snow along the road and could see where they had salted/sanded ...glad we weren't in the middle of it..

god has been with us...

enjoy winter we are...

on schedule is we have one...