Place of the Lost One



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Labor Day Weekend 2014 Lake Jocassee SC

The name Jocassee means "Place of the Lost One"

Roped into it

We were out in the boonies Saturday night for a nail-biting round up of a time.

(Location was probably in the boonies to lay low from PETA)

 





 Yeehaw

Touch an Animal Day but more importantly- the Rockstar

We were greeted at the SREL 'Touch and Animal Day' with hand sanitizer and the instructions to use only two fingers.

I know- crazy

 And now, drum roll please....

Our friend a little girl that has been a champ through a long up hill battle, Rockstar Miranda.

The BEST picture.





Don't forget...just 18

My sweet summer is slipping away.  We have diligently been busy checking items off our Summer Bucket List and exploring.

A new friend in the backyard

 

Chef Ramsey keeps talking about risotto so I have been working on my Italian rice skills.



LDC created a fairy garden.  (It looks more like a fairy yard sale)



Street Market with beer hops Fairy Trees.



Tela anxious to search out and welcome the new baby bird friend to our backyard.

Monday Evening Summer Concert Series in Hopeland Gardens

H.I.T. String Band (Hillbillies in Training)
Appalachian Music



As they turned to walk off the platform, Rev. Sexton said these words, “Don’t forget—you have just 18 summers. Take time to make some memories.”

http://just18summers.com/about/

5,280 feet

Campsite #19

Scat and tracks

Now if I can only get LDC to roll up her Therm-a-Rest.  That will be a golden day in my book. (Hate Dislike rolling up sleeping pads)

Wildflower picking

Warming up at breakfast (44 degrees the previous night)

Mountain Man turned 37

“After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.” 
-- George Macauley Trevelyan

The following pics are from happy hour- on our last night (the crowd got rowdy).

Firefighter for the Morning

Blaring horns, flashing lights and beating the summer heat

Vulture Awareness Day- 1st Saturday in Sept. and "I can do it!"

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' "  I. Asimov



My waterfall.  The end product of flushed toilets (Athens Clarke County Water Reclamation).



Her waterfall (at a SC state park).

Day 12 of my summer started off by learning:

how cow carcasses can be utilized in compost,

 the history of public trash collection that started with the Mafia's need to hide dead bodies,

and that Athens GA holds a "Vulture Awareness Day" at its dump.

 

The class is now done with and I have a plethora of new environmental science material to share with the students in August.

Athens Solid Waste Landfill (with vultures)

While I was "away at school" for a week LDC vacationed at Granise and Grandpa's.

In other news...

The Chesson kiddos are getting ready to expand their basketball team come this winter.  Baby #6. Aunt Lisa thinks it will be a: Boy

Uncle Andy thinks it will be a: Girl

LDC: Girl

We have a three year old going on thirteen...