Twenty seven years of weekends with Cindy

Today we left FDR State Park just when the power went out, which I can't determine is an example of how well the DNR folks work in the field or what little funds they have to keep the power on when they don't have anyone renting the cabins. I have a little bit of a suspicion and I don't want it to turn into conspiracy theory.

On Friday, we drove over to Pine Mountain and checked into the cabin. When we got there it was one of the older cabins and the power was turned off. It took awhile before the cabin started cooling off and about the time I had taken a little post-shower nap, it started raining and it really cooled off.

Oddly, we made it to the Gardens Restaurant in time to go out on the porch where it had cooled off for an early August afternoon. This is only the second time we have celebrated our anniversary on the porch at the Gardens Restaurant. Both times, the weather was cooler than normal and we could sit out on the porch comfortably and watch the geese on the fairways of the golf course.

Afterward, we drove back to the cabin and spent a quiet night in the cabin. The next morning, I got up and took a walk around the area, then we drove into town to walk around and eat lunch before we headed over to the Liberty Bell pool at FDR to spend the afternoon in the cool spring water they use at the pool. It was nice.

Later, we decided to try Hunters Pub, so we drove down to Hamilton, then cut west toward Alabama and made it to the cinder block building which houses Hunter's Pub. I've got to believe that Cindy was skeptical, but it turned out that that place has the best steaks I know of. Who would have thought that you would find such great food so far away from everything.

We left this morning and stopped at Three Little Pigs to buy a couple pounds of barbecue and some barbecue beans bafore we left. Heading back toward Griffin, we saw the signs for Hudson Farms and pulled off toward Raleigh, not North Carolina, Georgia, and they had peach ice cream and blueberry ice cream and I got to sample a swirl of both in a cone, and we bought some blueberries and some tomatoes and it was fun to sit out in the Sunday sunshine and talk about peaches and farming and enjoy the conversation.

And then, to top it all off, Kate met us at home on her way back from Thomasville. After feeding her some barbecue and beans and giving her some presents, she headed back to Dunwoody, and I headed down to south of Zebulon and picked up Tex from our friends out in the country.

All in all, it was a delightful weekend.