Christmas 2011

We had a god Christmas albeit small. We  stayed here in Acworth and had Christmas Eve dinner and gifts with Kathy's kids and grand-kids.  Christmas Day Kathy and I spent together at home enjoying one another.
Kathy got a wonderful 11 x 14 framed picture of her children and grands.

Here is her receiving the gift.

So we hope you had a Very Merry Christmas too!

I am now a Patriot Guard Rider

I have been on two missions.  A WWII Navy veteran and a Marine who was KIA Oct 13.

At LCPL Scott Harper's funeral besides the overwhelming support of the community there was over 300 motorcycles of the Patriot Guard, American Legion Riders and 3 Christian Motorcycle Clubs. The highway from the funeral home to the church , about 5 miles was lined with people waving flags and showing their respect.

Patriot Guard Riders is a diverse amalgamation of riders from across the nation. We have one thing in common besides motorcycles. We have an unwavering respect for those who risk their very lives for America’s freedom and security. If you share this respect, please join us.

We don’t care what you ride or if you ride, what your political views are, or whether you’re a hawk or a dove. It is not a requirement that you be a veteran. It doesn't matter where you’re from or what your income is; you don’t even have to ride. The only prerequisite is Respect.

Our main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family. Each mission we undertake has two basic objectives:

1. Show our sincere respect for our fallen heroes, their families, and their communities.
2. Shield the mourning family and their friends from interruptions created by any protestor or group of protesters.

I got a motorcycle!!!

Picked up this 1996 Suzuki Intruder 800 yesterday. Hoping the 50+mpg will help cut my costs. The geomobile gets 18 mph on a good day with a tailwind. The 85 mile round trip commute is getting costly as gas increases.

I have to come up with a name. Thinking La Burra , a female burro lol.

Jun 24, 2011 NC

We both took a Friday off and drove up to the GA NC mountains.  We visited the Great Smokie Mountain National Forest. We  had a little hike and did  some caches and had a good time.

View at the GSMNP

Thought this erosion was interesting.

Cache GC11WXP Abotts Island

Canada Geese enjoying a swim.

Well it has been a while.

Not much happening. We had a great Christmas, then in Jan I found out my store would close. They had no MGR posting open so I took a demotion and pay cut and now work at the
Atlanta Support Center  warehouse.
Kathy was laid off from the Drs office and is working full time temp and still at Macy's part time.

Kathy has visited her
mom who had her 80th birthday. Kathy helped he move to her new smaller house. The 4 bedroom split level was too much.

I just had a caching weekend in Nashville TN. Well it was a 20 hour day . We did 52 caches visited the GPS maze, 3 webcam caches, 6 virtuals, 1 puzzle, 1 multi cache and the rest regular caches. This gave us the qualification to do the Bust Day Challenge cache in Chattanooga.
Eleven of us from GA and Jgooose dove down down from Illinois.