Well I promised to do better blogging this year, ok so that has not worked so well thus far. I can not believe that it has been almost two months since my last post. I am out of school for the summer. Last Friday was the last day for teachers. School will resume (for teachers) on Aug. 9. This is one of the longest summers we have had in a few years. It is nice to have the extra time, but will miss my ten days of pay next year. (LC teachers along with many others are being furloughed ten days next school year. )
Well back to what we have been doing...
We hung out at Unicoi State park for the FFF (Federation of Fly Fisherman [ and women] ). Steve is always trying out new toys. He was testing a Winston Rod or something with "Buff" Randy.
For our fourth anniversary on June 3, we had dinner at Mellow Mushroom.
They must have the best pizza ever!
I picked Steve daisies and day lilies and left them at Tritts for him.
He questioned why could all of our wedding flowers be found in road side ditches....
I will let him wonder for a while.
Ok This is not a great picture, but Steve has a fatty thing (yes that is a medical term ) just below his right shoulder blade. My sister noticed it Memorial weekend. We are in the process of determining what type of surgery he is going to opt for. Good news is it is really no big deal (well at least for me it is not).
Elk in the Smokey Mountains, just outside of Cherokee, NC.
Deer in Cades Cove.
Most of the folks in Cades Cove were illiterate.
A turkey in Cades Cove.
A bear in Cades Cove.
White trillium in the Smokey Mountains
Kent Edmonds giving me a mini lesson, to improve my casting skills.
The legendary Lefty Kreh.
Townsend, TN
Lefty teaching a lesson
Look I caught a fish and Steve did not!
Striper (Stripped Bass) eye
Striper tail
Steve and his baby Striper on the southern part of the Chestatee River, before heading into Lake Lanier.
Old metal bridge on 60S
Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy!
We have been playing with the underwater camera...
the release...
Moonrise over the Chestatee.
Steve and Ted striper fishing!
Hummm, where to cast...
Steve's parents were Grand Marshals in the Murrayville Day parade.
I have two baby tomato's!
My little garden. It has seven tomato plants, a few pepper plants and a squash plant.
My view Memorial Day weekend.
I love my ENO hammock!
Steve grilled jerked chicken.
Oh the grill! Gotta love FIRE!
Yay for river time!
Memorial for the white pine.
May its spirit and memory live on!
The white pine at the river was dead and Dean was afraid the top would fall out and hurt someone, so they cut it down.
We went to a cookout at the airport and went up for a short ride.
Mount Yonah
This was the first time I had been flying in almost a year.
441 near Baldwin
Ted had us over for dinner, afterwards I was so stuffed I had to use him hammock.
Steve trout fishing
The first snake we saw in early spring. It was a black snake hanging out at our driveway.
