I spent the time from selling the house until the end of September in Sanger, Tx getting settled into my trailer and getting my storage area organized as well. I couldn’t part with all my possessions so it’s all meticulously packing into a 10′ x 10′ space. My planned fall volunteer position was a bust. […]
I was driving in June 2015 day dreaming about where I could go. I don’t mean for a trip, but to live. I’d only been in Florida a year so I started beating myself up for thinking about it. What’s the matter with me? Why can’t I be happy in one place life everyone else? […]
Finally had the opportunity to go the the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and take the boat tour through the swamps. The day was beautiful, not too hot, and no mosquitoes. The tour guide was incredible and filled in the history of the swamp and how the swamp builds itself. His talk was very interesting, but he […]
I haven’t wanted to talk about it. Heck — I still can’t go through their pictures even though I badly want to create a slideshow of their lives. But here it is — Nikki and Ellie have both died. I’m dogless and not happy. Nikki died in terrible pain on the Friday night following the […]
I remember the day I knew something was seriously wrong. I had come home from Cumberland one day in the summer to find an alarm going off and a very stressed Ellie. She was very sound sensitive and the alarm upset her so much she had paced all day trying to get away from it. […]
Man — it’s a tough life volunteering at Sea Camp. I get to visit with our park visitors, help them enjoy their day on the island, get entertained by wildlife. I’ve walked out on the porch and had wild horses stampede through too fast for me to get my phone for a picture. Deer will […]
I was able to go out very early one morning and work the sea turtle patrol with one of the turtle interns Amanda. It was a gorgeous day and it was great seeing what they do everyday, driving the entire length of the Cumberland seashore, collecting sand dollars and shells, and best of all – […]
It didn’t take long after my visit to Cumberland Island National Seashore to contact their volunteer coordinator Pauline to sign up for volunteering. I will be working out on the island manning the Sea Camp Ranger Station a couple days a week. To educate me about the island (so I can answer visitor questions) another […]
I took the ferry from St. Mary’s, GA (just over the line from home) to Cumberland Island National Seashore for the day. Had a great time, exquisite weather, and made new friends Mary Ellen, Theresa, and Lilly. Pictures say it all – not much more I can add to the beauty they show other than […]
Don and I finally found a window of good weather to meet on Dauphin Island after trying since January. The island is very laid back, not commercialized at all like Gulf Shores that is just across Mobile Bay, and the people are very nice — even teenagers said “hi” to us when we were out biking […]
