Wednesday

Well can you believe this warm weather we are having here in the mountains. After a 7:30 wake up we started the day. After our quiet times we enjoyed a breakfast of oatmeal for Nancy and a left over buckwheat cake for me. I checked the outside temps and found it was nearly 60 degrees. The forecast for the day was to be close to 75 degrees once again; but it was actually closer to 80. I headed down to the basement to start the washing machine and we eventually put 2 loads on the clothes line. It was a glorious day for hanging clothes outside.

I headed down into the backwoods to check out the property lines now that much of the foliage is gone and I can see back into the woods. I clipped some brush and trimmed some dead branches that helped me to clarify where the property line lies. While back in the woods I transplanted about 2 dozen small white pines on the lower level woods. That area has few pines growing there and the dozen or so I transplanted last are doing well. Nancy was preparing our supper which would be Zuppa Soup as well as a pumpkin pie. We invited our "mountain mom" and her brother Joe for supper but first we were going to check out Raven Knob, a boy scout campground in Low Gap which is down off the mountain.

We headed out around 2 PM and wow was it ever warm down there at 82 degrees. We found the place which turned out to be where her husband Roy once received his order of the Arrow Badge many years ago when he was a scout leader. This is a fantastic camp with 3200 acres of pristine property. The facilities are top notch and while the amenities are many there is such a rustic feel for this place nestled in the mountains. We walked out onto the floating docks then drove throughout part of the camp. That was a new adventure for us as we never knew the camp existed until someone posted the name on Face Book; so once we heard it was close to us in Low Gap we decided to give it an explore. The camp leaders were very friendly to us and told us to explore all we wanted.

The temp's fell about 13 degrees the further up the mountain we traveled until it was 68 by the time we got back to the cabin. Nancy put a sweatshirt on after being in the 80's. The soup was going to taste good. While she reheated the soup I took down the laundry and moved my red hot peppers I had drying on the porch in the sun. We started supper off with a crisp salad and homemade Greek dressings, then crusty bread with Zuppa and of course pumpkin pie and whipped cream for the finally, Yikes was that ever a feast. After they left we did the dishes but were too full to walk around the yards; so we didn't get our daily hike in to the top besides it was going on 7 PM and sundown was upon us.

Here are a few pics from Raven Knob campground which is a Boy Scout Camp that is visited by 13 states east of the Mississippi, LATER