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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Clemson 2008

We made a trip to Clemson. It was a happy occasion.

Butch cooked wonderful steaks.

SHOUT It FROM THE TOWER !!! SHE GRADUATED

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

It was a beautiful spring day for a visit to Rose's place. She has been planting flowers and trees and shrubs in her many gardens. She now has roses and dogwoods and many perennials. The blueberry bushes are blooming ,the humming bird feeders are out, and the vegetable garden is growing. She fed us lunch on the screen porch and we had a nice visit.

Rose is getting ready for her annual fourth of July party. It will be bigger and better this year. Don't miss it...!!!

We got to see Sam too...an added treat!!!

Monday, May 05, 2008

Graduation 2008

Andrew graduated from Pellissippi State with a degree in Informational Technology.

Here is Andrew receiving his diploma...Mayor Haslam was the speaker.

Chocolate cake with chocolate icing served with chocolate ice cream
at Gma's house.

It was a happy celebration.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Fontana Hiking Week 2008

....Here's the hiking group:::

.We ate at Toodies Restaurant. with the red motorcycle parked out front.................

..............................Here's our cabin with a new red roof.

We led the wild flower hikes in Fontana for many years, and this year we went back to hike with our old friends. Anita and Don Berning were leaders with us, and we had a good time reminiscing about some of our adventures. We got people lost a few times, and we slogged through mud and water on rainy day hikes. We were the "Mountain Goat " leaders and then "Hillbilly"leaders and the now we are"Flat Landers. ". We used to walk to Shuckstack every hiking week. It has a fire tower on top with a beautiful view of the Smokies. The Appalachain trail goes into the Smokies from there. We always took a boat trip to Hazel Creek...an old communtiy that was covered with water when Fontana Dam was built. There's an old lumber mill there where the morel mushrooms grow. We usually found enough morels to cook that night. We would have a program every night after the hike..lectures and music and even square dancing. We had the cafeteria for our meals . The leaders got free cabins and meal tickets and we took lots of friends and families with us to stay in our cabin. We used to have over a hundred people on these hikes...this year we had 29.We had a good time. The place is so isolated in the mountains with a road to get there that is called the "dragon's tail" These days it is full of motorcylces racing around the curves. The cafteria is gone, but our cabin is still there and many of our old friends are still hiking.
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