one of our lovely Georgia State Parks...let me tell ya'll...unless they had a snow machine going, no way was this going to be a pleasant outing...we've been talking about going up to take some family photos for, oh, about 6 months or more...and today is the first day when the planets aligned and everybody got his or her butt into gear...so we ate a quick bite, piled into Speck and headed to Magnolia Springs...
Did I mention it is August? August may be pleasant in some areas of our great country...I'm willing to entertain that idea...
But in Georgia, August is a trial to one's soul...
I didn't even have it in me to insist everybody don the ubiquitous white button-downs and khakis so the photos might have a snowball's chance in, well, Georgia...in August...of lookin' somewhat professional...
I expect lots of killings happen in August...in Georgia...probably more than any other time of the year...I'm being completely serious...
My Grand Plan involved driving up to the actual "spring", hopping out to snap a quick photo or two and hoppin' right back into the car to speed away in air conditioned bliss...
Apparently, I forgot to copy the family on that...I let my attention wander for just a minute (busy checking the ground for venomous snakes camouflaged in the leaf litter...habit of mine)
and before I could stop them, all 3 (Husband, Son and Future DIL) headed off into the woods...Not wanting to be an absolute bad sport (since mostly they find my little tirades amusing and since any extra gesticulation on my part would have resulted in yet more sweating...and since, full disclosure, I didn't have my set of car keys), I trudged into the HOT leafy moist Georgia woods after
and the daggum trail came out at the paved road to the cottages...the cottages sited at the back of the park...Sometimes actions do speak louder than words...so with the words "should we follow the road to the lake" still hoverin' in the HOT humid August air, I simply turned, headed back into the HOT leafy moist poisonous snake-ridden Georgia woods and followed the trail back to the springs...
oh, did I tell ya'll?...Mosquitoes the size of baby chickens live in the in the HOT leafy moist poisonous snake-ridden Georgia woods...I will probably have malaria and/or West Nile within 24 hours, thank you very much...
well...I'm all done whining...for now...
