40 YEARS IN THE MAKING!

Welcome!  Welcome!  Thanks for stopping by the Front Porch.  Busy the last few days...really last few week I guess.  School, church, family...sounds like life!  Anyway decided to take some time the next few weeks, maybe even months and look back 40 something years....walk down memory lane....stopping to smell the roses....a blog jog journal of the my life.

This is going to me sharing some pictures, memories and highlights.  So sit a spell for now and get comfortable.  We'll visit for a while and when you need to go just move on.  We'll say so long until next time.

Well, where do I begin???  Think for today I'll begin with this past summer.  Yep, this past summer.  You see the Preacher and I got to take one of those rare trips with just me and him, him and me ...just the two of us.  We decided to take a camping trip.  Now for some crazy reason we in our old days still love camping!  I love the great outdoors....I think the Preacher loves building and sitting around the camp fire...100 degrees-sweat pouring down your face....he still loves those campfires...

Anyway, featured today is the Big Blue Dodge Dakota....a good ole truck that just keeps running along.  We packed it front, back seat and the bed of the truck packed to overflowing too....just the two of us but I think I packed everything BUT this front porch.

We take off...it had been a busy summer...I worked summer school...it was close to time to start school again-but we set our date and time. set and this trip was awhopping 10 days!!  10 days away from the Barnyard....a treat indeed...thanks to young son Tim and his little two guys who were going to keep a watchful eye and the Barnyard crew


..truck packed and off we go to one of our favorite places...Smoky Mountains...we are not real crazy about Pigeon Forge and all the commerical too much to do...too much money activities.  But we do love those mountains-beautiful...refreshing for the body, soul and spirit.  So off we go into the wild blue yonder.  We had a tent, sleeping bags, and all the gear needed.. EXCEPT Arkansas, Tennessee and several other states were in the grip of a HEAT WAVE!.. Anyway, first night we stop and camp in Arkansas...at a state park...it was pretty nice a little too crowded for our liking and HOT HOT HOT....long night indeed....back on the road and what was the highlight of this little stop was a CRACKER BARREL right there ...had to pass right by it to get back on the highway.  Well, you can guess we just had to pull in there.  One of the best if not the best breakfast meals we ever had-anywhere..anytime..good stuff indeed!

Finally, we make it to Tennessee....second night we found another state park with some of the most unusual camp sites I ever saw.  Huge pillars holding up huge beams on which you pulled your truck, RV or whatever on and set up there high in the air overlooking a beautiful lake.  We make camp, fixed some supper and yep Preacher built us a nice fire.... It was a little cooler-still hot-but oh so pretty and the night sounds so relaxing.  Take a look at those pillars....a real wonder to build...the bonus was that no one was close by at all...as a matter of fact we drove all around and counting us there were only 3 campers in the whole park....nice...quiet and relaxing......say you gotta go...understand...stop by again and I'll be ready to share more adventures and pictures of '40 years in the making'!  Until we visit again..........be blessed from the front porch.