Signs of the times: Waycross Signage

While I do find this amusing,
it doesn't exactly make me want to go in there and buy food!

When teaching English overseas, I found that my students always wanted to translate the idiom "fed up" as "full" - After struggling to explain the correct meaning, I know this sign would totally throw them off!

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Oh, this amuses me to no end: http://waycrossga.blogspot.com/ - specifically the "Drugs & Thugs" segments. Here's a quote:

In the 1900 block of Hazel Street, a house under construction was inspected by members of the Waycross Liberation Squad and found to have un-needed items like a portable air compressor, a framing nailer, a cordless drill, a metal chop saw, and a skill saw. The squad members quickly liberated these un-needed items (and probably headed right to the pawn shop).

My mom lives just down the road from this house, and I actually saw the squad cars there the other evening and wondered why...

Freedom and Poverty! And Blogging! And Pets!

Scare crow??

I was driving down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere today, and in front of a house (which looked unlived in) was a dead crow up in a tree. Not only was it dead, but it was TIED TO THE TREE. Talk about creepy. Like horror movie creepy. I got a close-up of the dead bird. I was going to get a distance shot to show the whole scene, but then this car pulled up and wouldn't drive past my car, so I felt like I had to get out of there right away!

Koala!

My baby's growing up!

Beagly is a mutant.

Normal dogs have five toenails on the front feet and four toenails on the back feet. Then there's Beagly:

See that toenail on the upper left?
That's not supposed to be there.

And check out the weirdness on the bottom of the foot, too.


He is a cutie though.

More kitten cuteness!

Beagly and Koala

(Beagly is my mom's beagle.)

In the news in Waycross, GA

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Mucking about in Clough's Bay

My mom and I went on a rather lengthy horseback ride on Sunday, through a rather swampy area just west of her land known as Clough's Bay. Let me show you some maps of where we went before I get into the pictures. Our route is marked in pink:

It was a very sunny day. I remembered to take photos of my shadow,
but neglected to apply sunscreen...


We took the dogs Blix and Brin with us, and they had a ball.
(A good 40% of the "roads" we followed were underwater.)




We rode into some areas that were burnt during the fires of 2007.
(and yes, that's a "road" there!)


There's a lot of desolate land out here...


And we rode through it!




Some places really looked more like canals than roads...


Dr. Seuss Trees!!!


(At one point, mom decided to give her rear a break...)


This is what comes of not wearing sunscreen!