danielsville, ga

move into the country... gonna eat alot o' peaches...

sadly, no peaches. i think we came in the wrong season for that.

Lets see, we hit this part of Georgia on... Thursday evening, I believe. Hanging out with Sara and Ronnie is quite enjoyable. Some very interesting conversations we've had. Ronnie has an insane number of books, something like 13,000+. Craaazy. And piles and piles of records. Which I have a picture of and will upload eventually.

Yes, we do have a camera now. Sorry for the lack of pictures, but due to unforeseen circumstances.... well.... anyway we have a camera now. Pictures will commence henceforth. And we apologize for the infrequent nature of our posts. Our internet access has been quite scarce lately. But we'll do what we can.

When the night has come.. and the land is dark... and the moon is the only light we'll see... no I WON'T ... be AFRAID....

sorry. radio. anyway....

Ok, I'm really having trouble remember the order of events in which we did things, so i'll just list them and let you decide how you would like to chronologically arrange them yourselves.

Friday morning I slept. I think Andy went with them to a booksale. Or so they said. Later I went with them into Ila to run a few errands. We stopped at Tractor Supply for a few... non-tractor related supplies. While Sara was shopping, Ronnie and I had a interesting converstion about how big alot of homeschool families are. Actually we had ALOT of interesting converstions with him. Then we went to look for a refridgerator, and kinda got sidetracked by some books.

Sara and I worked on the fence she's building for her goats later that afternoon. Oh, we at lunch at the Ila Restuarant. Good food. Good tea. Hmm... while we were fencing... no wisecracks about my use of the word fencing... Andy and Ronnie went to move a sofa over to the new house. And at some point we moved a piano. Not so fun.

The piano moving was QUITE an adventure. Getting it out of the house it was in was a job in and of itself. After removing a plethora of equestrian memorabilia from atop the piano we moved it to the front door and decided to back the truck up all the way too the door and just load it straight on. Which went without too much of a hitch.

Ill be your crying shoulder.. i'll be loves suicide... i’ll be badder when i’m older... i'll be the greatest fan of your life

I'm just going to through these songs in as i feel like it. Deal with it. Hey, you know what? YOUR MOM. yeah.

So, now we're driving down the road. Andy and I are in the back of the truck holding onto the piano for dear life. I notice a cop car pass in by us... a minute later I see him behind us... closer.. closer... we come up to a stop sign... and then the blue and red lights of doom began flashing. We're all going to die. But he pulls past us, and we notice a wreck on the road a ways ahead of us. And way out here in the country a wreck on a two-lane road is a big deal. Especially at an intersection. I have a picture of two of this, but they will have to come later.

Finally we get home with the piano. And now we have to get it up the wooden stairs onto the porch. Which looks to be a very daunting task, for the piano is quite heavy. After a bit of discussion, its decided that I get to be a carpenter for a day. After a couple minutes, I've successfully removed a section of the railing from the porch and we back the truck right up to the porch, which turns out to be ALOT easier than the stairs.

And this post is getting LONG. must wrap things up. Ah, alritey, so we went into Athens that nite. Coffee shop, internet, blah blah, we went and saw Wild Hogs. do NOT see this movie. it is NOT worth the money. For such a great cast, it was horrible. The whole theater thought it was hilarious, though. I personally wanted my money back. It just wasnt funny.

Went home, blah, slept late, blah, back to Athens the next day. i think....

That day must not have been to eventful, because I don't remember too much. We headed home about midnight or a little after. We're not even out of Athens yet, when I start smelling something burning, and the temperature light comes on. We pull over as smoke is billowing out from under the hood. By the beard of Zeus!

After a bit of looking and pretending like we know about cars... it seems like we just need a bit of liquid in the radiator, since there is none. at all. Luckily we had a couple 2liters of water with us, and dump those in, and decide to try to make it home, as we don't really want to end up on the side of the road in teh wee hours of the morning.

We make it almost home, when we start to notice steam coming out from the hood. I drive for a bit longer trying to decide whether or not we can make it home, but not wanting to really mess up the engine. We pull over on the side of the road not too far from the house. We hope. But I dont really want drive anymore as the engine is really hot.

So. Its like 1:30am or so. I know Sara and Ronnie aren't up, as they usually turn in early, and we don't want to wake them if we don't have to. So we decide to push the car. Unfortunately, it's mostly all uphill. We put the car in neutral anyway, and start pushing, using a flashlight to see where we're going. We push and push.... going uphill is no piece of cake. Finally the incline gets too steep, and we just can't keep any forward momentum going. We just happened to stop right in front of this house that seems to have a large number of dogs dwelling there. Thankfully they're chained, or so we assume, as we are not attacked. They just bark and bark and bark.

Suddenly from out of the dark in the direction of the house.... "SHUT UP DOGS!!!!!!!" Somebody's awake. We hope they don't decide to come find out what the dogs are barking at. And if they do, hopefully they're not armed. A minute or so later we hear again... "YOU STUPID DOGS!!!! SHUT UUUUUP!!!!!!!"

We figure we should probly leave. But we can't push the car. And we can't drive it. And we're like in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Our options are somewhat limited.

But I'm getting a headache, and I need to go find something for it. So I'll have to finish this later.