Anniversary Weekend

27 July 2007 - Time to get away for a few days!! Becky did her usual Internet search and came up with a great little placed in the North Georgia mountains for us to go for our anniversary. It was only about 2 hours or less away so locals wanted to know why we were not going farther for such a significant event. Answer - if you have never been there and it is a great place (and if you pretend we are still living in Missour) it IS like going far away!! On the way I had to stop and take a few photos of flowers as this is my latest 'thing' to photograph (along with old barns). The odd-one-out has a story to go with it. We passed a handwritten sign on the side of the road saying 'BOILED PEANUTS'. Well we had tried this so-called delicacy several years ago and were not impressed. Also, our brother-in-law, Tommy, had tried to interest us in them. This setup was unique enough to make us decide to give them one more chance. The old guy had his old cast iron pot, wood fire, fresh peanuts and quart jar of clear liquid (Becky thinks it was not water) and was out there plying his trade. Well, we are now converts!!! They were really good and we take back our previous comments as they apply to the 'real thing'. Lesson - don't make a hasty judgement on new things until you have given them a good fair chance.