Monday, August 17, 2015

A Day of Firsts

 

Blairsville, GA, (high 82, low 68)

 

Rain was predicted yesterday, but all we got was a lovely nice cool day with some cloudiness. 

We puttered around home yesterday, planting some flowers, blowing the deck and doing laundry.  I’m doing a LOT of laundry lately trying to wash off the poison ivy from Al’s clothing. Every time he wears something,  if I don’t wash the clothing several times, it seems to cause him more problems the next time he wears those clothes. According to the research we’ve done on the internet, poison ivy doesn’t spread from touching or clothing, but we don’t believe it.  Maybe you have to be hyper-sensitive to it like Al is but it sure seems to spread on him.  The patch on his leg is growing despite all the care he has given it.  Last night, I thought he was getting better, but now I’m not so sure.    I’m sure glad we have our big washing machine in the cabin. It would take forever to double and triple wash everything with my little machine in the motorhome.

Our new renters arrived from Maggie Valley, NC yesterday.   I knew they had a Toy Hauler, and I knew it was a large one, but I never knew exactly how large.

We advertise our Rv site to be big rig friendly, but when I saw the size of their rig, I was a tad worried.

It’s a 46 foot 5th wheel toy hauler!   I never knew they made them that big.

Here they are unloading the motorcycle.

46 Foot toyhauler

Ready to back in.

46 Foot toyhauler

The only casualty was the new 911 lot signs that the county insisted on putting up for the police and fire departments. 

 

46 Foot toyhauler

 

46 Foot toyhauler

Dan did an amazing job backing that monster into the site.  It’s a beauty, isn’t it?

46 Foot toyhauler

Welcome to Rivers Edge Janice and Dan!  This was the first time we’ve had a rig that large and now we know if they can fit, than no one else should have any problems!  We’ve done well renting the extra site out this year. It’s been booked solid since June and we only have a few weeks vacant in September. 

 

I started my new thru-hiker book yesterday and sat outside under the awning reading.  This true story was written about a hike in 2008 which was the same year the guy in my last book did the AT.  I was sure surprised when I recognized one of the characters (hikers) from the last book! Everybody who hikes these trails gets “trail names” and I remembered hiker “Padre” from the last book.  It was like meeting an old friend!

 

After hanging around home all day, we decided to take our usual evening golf cart ride searching for the elusive bear.  We didn’t see a bear, but we found something almost as good.

Last week we took our other renters Mike and Lisa out on the golf cart.  When we went over this rickety bridge over the stream, she noticed this wood and said it looked like a beaver had chewed it. 

Beaver

 

Beaver

After we rounded the corner, inside the farmers garden which was surrounded by an electric fence, sat this handsome guy.

Beaver

Our first Beaver sighting.   We have never seen a beaver in Florida. Al Googled them and found there are some beaver in Florida, but we sure have never seen one before.

Beaver

We noticed where he had been making his dam.

Beaver

We were thrilled, but evidently they are seen around here often, so no one else was too impressed.  :)

 

We continued our ride until it was pitch black outside, but never saw that darn bear.

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8 comments:

  1. I passed through your general area a couple of months ago. It's very pretty area. Wish I would have booked another night or two to go to the top of Bald mountain. I Ann near Savannah now and headed north to Pennsylvania. My first east coast trip. Great pictures.

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  2. I passed through your general area a couple of months ago. It's very pretty area. Wish I would have booked another night or two to go to the top of Bald mountain. I Ann near Savannah now and headed north to Pennsylvania. My first east coast trip. Great pictures.

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  3. A couple more AT books you may want to look at are, AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by Davd Miller, publishes the AT Guide.,Three Hundred Zeros by Dennis Blanchard, Walking Home and Southbound by sisters Lucy and Susan Lechter also known as the Barefoot Sisters, Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis, well known hiker, and Just Passin Thru by Winton Porter former owner of Mountain Crossings. Also A Walk for Sunshine by Jeff Alt. we love to hike on the trail when we are at our place in Dillard, Ga.

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  4. Wow, what a nice looking rig! He barely got in there it looks like. How cool to see a beaver!

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  5. I'd like to have the storage and space in a rig that large, but don't think I'd like to drive it so much. Just think how much trouble it would be getting into the drive through at McDonald's! :cD

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  6. We saw a beaver here in West Virginia. They didn't seem to care about people being around.

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  7. Excellent pic of the Beaver. We had to pull up one of those signs to get parked as well.

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