Cool pictures sent to me

Here are a couple of pictures a friend of mine sent me.
Thought they would be kinda cool to show.
Things started to slow down on the work scene, due to nice temperatures.
I like alot of other folks are opening the windows and letting it all air out.
If anyone needs air conditioning work done, ecspecially attic work, take advantage of slower time of year and nice weather.
The deals are always the best this time of year.
As soon as the temps. hit high 80's and low 90's so do the prices.
A long time Friend of ours Tom R. who lives in west Central Wisconsin have been having insane COLD weather.
Thursday morning -34 degrees, without wind chill.
With windchill -45 to -50.
I don't know how he even leaves the house.
Good luck to Tom and his family as I send warm thoughts to them.

Stay warm/cool
Tim

Now the rest of the story

We made our way to northern Alabama to Bucks Pocket State park in the beginning of the Appalacian mountains.
We stayed here for three days and the sun never made an appearance.It stayed wet and cold.We did go on a couple of hikes and saw alot of rivers and waterfalls.
The second day we hiked about 5 miles and Mr. Charlie hung in with us, but it was about the last of hiking for him for the rest of the trip.
We realy like camping in other states during the winter months because there is not alot of other people camping and the fees are usually dropped to half price. I never complain for $9.00 a night.
The weather forcast called for heavy rain and possibilitys of "ice pellets" I'm not exactly sure what ice pellets are but I do know we did not want any part of them.
We drove hard the next day to get out of the foul weather area and ended up back in north Florida. The temps. were 81 in the day and 55 at night. That is some very nice weather.
We finished up our trip with Ted cooking hot dogs on an open flame for the family, he always likes to finish our trips this way and he always asks us about 30 times before we go to bed if we liked his dinner.
As usuall we loved it.
So if you see me this week and I have a glazzed look in my eye I'm just thinking about our trip down south. (or up north for us)
Stay cool (not ice pellet cool)
Tim

Mississippi and other southern states

Our camping trip started with a bang.
blown camper tire and disfigured rim in Ocala.
After a couple hours looking for a tire and rim on a Sunday finnaly found rims and a cheap tire at Satans shopping store. (Wal-mart)
Had to spend a night, very short of our first night destination, in north Florida at O'leno State park. It's a great place we stayed at many times in the past.
Had to get tires on Monday (DISCOUNT TIRE OF GAINSVILLE) they were fantastic.
On the road again, can't wait to get on the road again.
Made our way to south Alabama to a state park I can't remember the name (had like 3 different listings). It worked for a night was completely filled with deer at dark, we saw 30-40 of them. This is always exciting for a bunch of Florida folks.
Bathroom and shower situation was very poor, but like I said it worked.
We made our way to western Mississippi to Homochito National Forest to a camping area at Clear Springs outside the town of Meadville.
Serious cool place with lots of space, wildlife, and even a beaver dam.
Again a highlight for Floridians.
We stayed here for a few nights, did some hiking and went to see THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
My oldest son Sam who wanted to see thr river was very disimponted at the size of the river. Were we were it was like 3/4 of a mile wide. I'm not sure what he wanted, I thought it was wide.
When we got out of the van, weiner dog Mr. Charlie ran to the river and jumped in and drank the water like it was a life goal for him.
That is quite strange because if you know charlie he does not run for much.
The day we visited the river a cold front was comming in and it was windy and cold as can be.

I'll post more soon.
Tim