Saturday

Well the day weather wise was just awesome until late afternoon when it sprinkled a little and then became overcast but no real rain or cold temps. The morning started out with us once again sleeping in, wow that is becoming a habit I'm not real crazy about as I like the early morning when daylight approaches. One good thing about sleeping in, is we only eat 2 meals a day because breakfast/brunch is usually around 10 AM, oh well!

After our quiet times Nancy fired up the oven and we put some frozen biscuits to bake and then she put some super tasting sausage patties into simmer while the biscuits baked. I slathered horseradish on my sausage biscuits, enough to clear out my sinuses. I jumped in the golf cart after eating and drove to the top of the mountain to pick up a dozen eggs Jetta picked up for us on Friday. The Browning's headed to Charleston to help with the medical care for their nephew for a few days. I kept looking for the bear that was seen on the back road a day or so ago but all I saw was a large doe that crossed the road in front of me.

We got ready and headed out to Sparta for the annual Fall Heritage Festival. The town street was closed off and several vendors, food tents and a stage was set up for the various bands that would entertain throughout the day. We stayed long enough to see and listen to 2 very good bands both Blue Grass, Country, Pop and Mountain Music. I could hard keep my feet and legs still as the vibes had me wanting to get out on the dance floor. There were a few brave souls who cut the rug and even the Possum Queen in full Indian regalia showed us how to do it. We saw lots of familiar faces and met us with the Dalton Gang minus Andy who was home smoking a Boston Butt for supper.

We headed out after 2 PM and managed to get 3/4 of our hike in before in clouded up and started to sprinkle. It didn't amount to much after we started back down the mountain but at least we got the hard part in; going up without a stop. I came back and tuned into a couple football games. The Florida schools once again dominated but the Rays lost to the Yankees and the Braves came back against a very good Washington ball club.

We headed out to the Dalton Farm a little after 5 with a cookie sheet loaded with oven taters, yeow where they ever smelling good and we did sample a couple on the way there. The smoker was smelling good as we arrived and there were all kinds of good eatin' but before we started chowing down we managed to get in a few games of corn hole. Supper was awesome with the smoked butt, taters, cold green pea salad, baked apples, baked beans, fried squash and rolls. Once again we had to waddled away from the table. The guys did managed to finish up the corn hole playing in the back yard after shooting a little at a plastic water bottle with a 410 shot gun. I knocked the bottle from the fence post only to learn I hit the post just below the bottle but Andy finally took the top off with a good shot. The gals all walked down to the barn to gander at the horses and alpacas. Gerald and I managed to squeak out a best of 3 games win against Caleb and Andy in corn hole, thanks to Gerald good tossing.

We headed in about dark and decided to get in some Sequence; well it was a gals victory again as they won the first 3 and then we managed a win and finally they won again so we decided we were bored with losing or they were bored with winning. We headed out around 9 after we had a great fun time as well as eating. I watched a little more football with Texas and Ole' Miss and decided to call it an early night, LATER