Well it was a busy day after a 7 AM wake up. The temps were in the 70's with a few high clouds. After our quiet times and a lite breakfast of cereal and oatmeal we got ready to head out on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We headed up to Mabry Mills around 9:30 which is about 50 miles north of the cabin. We saw evidence of the strong storm that struck our area on Monday night around 1 AM as the Parkway was littered with large trees that had been split, twisted and blown down along side the road, Yikes some of these trees were humongous.
Mabry Mills is a late 1800's homestead that showed some of the best engineering skills when it came to harnessing water power to grind grains, saw timber and do other wood working jobs. We walked through out the rustic house and out buildings which really confirmed to us how great the gals have it today. We headed back toward Galax a little before noon and took a different route which allowed us to travel much faster. We could see where rain had fallen all the way into Galax. We headed over to main street to have a lite lunch at MacAdoo's. This is a neat yuppie type restaurant which employs young college students as waiters and specializes in sandwiches, nachos and quesadillas. After a yummy lunch we walked through the old down town and visited several shops and eventually ended up at an ice cream shoppe. The kiddos loved this. We headed back to Wal-Mart to pick up a few items and visited with Kimberly who works in the garden department before heading back to the cabin.
Nancy made a superb spaghetti sauce using lots of fresh herbs from the garden and Amy put a salad together and along with crusty garlic bread we had a sumptuous meal. After supper and the clean up the kids were put in the bath tub and got ready for bed. Nancy read several books as the temps dropped and night fall came on. Finally we have some cool weather as the breeze really chilled things down. Well I just had Sam climb up on my lap as I finish this post. These little ones will surely me missed when they leave on Saturday, LATER
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- Jerry
- A country boy,farmer at heart,loves being a father and grand father,a believer and follower of Christ,I was an aircraft loadmaster on a C-141 Starlifter in Vietnam from 1966-73, a state trooper for 30 years in Florida from 1974-2004,now retired.I play pickle ball 5 days a week at the Seminole rec Center in Florida.
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