Georgia Is Wet

We were in Georgia, just visiting,at the end of June, just for a couple days. I don't remember much, but there was a lot of swimming. It's one thing Georgia does pretty well...

junk food as always, I think this kind of stuff is outlawed north of the Mason-Dixon

Aesop got in on the act

A silly-face photo is par for the course

Still winning the head hair handily, but I got competition in the facial hair department now.

For our one non-nautical themed event, we had dinner with Christina and her beau.

And then it was back in the pool

Merry Just For Nerds

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Woot Heat

Big ups to Brian down in Georgia for keeping an eye out on the Woot for us, because we lack the discipline and necessary wherewithal to stay on it and know a bargain when it smacks us upside the head. This here is a LifeSmart 1500 Watt Quartz Infrared Heater, complete with remote control, something we've been talking about getting for a few years now in an attempt to replace that dreaded pellet stove. We've looked online and in a few shops and just haven't been motivated to pull the trigger, but in tonight's late hour, just as we started to implement the body heating method to go to sleep, this bad boy popped up on Brian's radar and he alerted both Laura and myself. It was a short conversation, mostly between me and myself, because Laura is a victim of the moment and she just so happened to be chilly. So a quick registration and address check later and we own one. So Woot, Brian, late night snap decisions, we can look forward to tearing that pellet stove out soon and laying it to rest.

More From Georgia

No we haven't unpacked our suitcases, the cupboard is bare and the fridge is barren. This is the longest we've ever taken to re-acclimate. But we do have a healthy supply of banana chips.

More from Georgia:

seal training

homemade water park

sticker knees is the new black

Hey Uncle

cookies on the stage

girls will flit

Déjà vu

two birds with one cake

back porch ominous

too fast for grass

playdohfurkey

this is Charlotte

like Daddy, only whiter

about to wreck this

I'm coming for ya

helping hand

working her abs

just pleasant

making up for lost time

Coloring Bridge To Cold Cookout

For their final day here in the Poke-A-Nose we thought we'd take a relaxing drive down to Easton and let the girls loose in the Crayola Factory. The place was bigger than I thought'd be and spanned the history of the crayon from its first wax pencil to the its latest shade of inchworm. Some of the activities were overwhelmed by aspiring artists and oddly enough, 17 year olds on spring break, but we still managed to find plenty for the girls to do.

this was a car that you can color on

I wonder how many kids transfer this idea to their family vehicle

she didn't quite get the color explosion

I feel like she really shined at the sculpture station

this piece is entitled "Dead Hippo Floating in Lake Wallenpaupack"

the chalk walk was intimidating to all of us

forever immortalized in a Spiderman coloring book

silly mirrors are self explanatory

the colordance wall was quite fun

so much fun that even I got in on the action

After that we hit a nearby park between to bridges along the river that had plenty of slides for these three. I think Yuula may already be due for an upgrade.

Yuula was in charge of ot letting the ball fall in the river

I was in charge of not letting Yuula fall in the river

she's a slide fiend

Then to home where despite the plummeting temperature and occasional gusts of wind we went ahead with the preplanned cookout of pork steaks. No one seemed to mind too terribly, except for Madison who wore gloves (but no jacket) thru dinner. We even had a visitor who proved to be a big fan of sweet potato fries.

Laura and her stack o' meat

simple & delicious

sweet potato fries make one bold

And then as the sun went down completely we made a fire and everyone got in their fair share of s'mores as we thought back over the past few days and found out that everyone's favorite moment was simply "Kitties!".

dry wood makes for easy bonfire

a roasting tutorial

charred to perfection

first s'more

second s'more

Good times!