Apparently, I haven’t overnighted anything is a long time. Took an envelope by UPS the other day to overnight some papers and discovered that I had three options for overnighting…

1) Delivery by 8:00am – $50 something dollars

2) Delivery by 10:30am – $27 or so

3) Delivery by sometime later in the day was like $20 something…(at this point, my brain was busy calculating whether it was worth it to overnight this small envelope in my hand and the words of the guy behind the counter was but a mere distant buzzing noise)

Am I revealing my age when I say that I can remember overnighting things for under $20?  Something like $17?  I suppose most of my overnighting was for work purposes, therefore, I simply filled out the form and sent it off to the mailroom and let the company deal with it…

So in the end, I took my little envelope… drove down the street to the good ol’ US post office where I went ahead and sent it via certified mail – so it will take perhaps 2-3 days to get where it needs to go and I sent it certified to make sure I had a record of it.  All for just over $3.

Then I went and treated myself to lunch.

Just spent the weekend in the mountains of North Carolina… I had driven up straight from Atlanta after my meeting had ended and Ryan drove up with friends from the Island. I have to admit, packing for a weekend while it’s 100 degrees outside, I packed nothing but shorts and t-shirts… when I got to the cabin, I realized I had nothing warm enough to wear. What a concept. Here I was in July wishing I had packed flannel… (more…)

The weekend was basically going to be a working one… we’re heading up to the family cabin next weekend so my husband is trying to get ahead at work so he can take off Thursday.  But we got a nice invitation from friends to come over for dinner with their kids who were in town for the 4th.  Jimmy absolutely makes the best ribs in the world… and all the veggies were picked fresh in Tatnall County (the U-Pick Capital of Georgia) or home grown so everything was delicious. (more…)

The traffic circle construction is under way and we’ve finally been able to see a drawing of the plans. They actually started the construction a couple of months ago beginning with the tearing down of the beautiful oak that used to stand at the entrance to the Island… probably a couple of hundred years old, it was said that it was dead… word had it that the power company ‘somehow’ placed a pole or something right near it’s root and was subsequently hit by lightning which then killed the tree… awfully convenient huh? A landmark tree dying RIGHT before plans for a new construction project gets approved. In any case, nefarious plots aside… (more…)

Just came back from spending the day out on the water… I do live on an Island afterall. Not many people can say they live 4 miles away from the mainland. Lucky for me, I have generous friends who occasionally invite us to join them for a day out on their boat. Sometimes we go fishing… other times, like today, it’s simply a boat ride to have lunch at Mudcat Charlies in the Two-Way Fish camp on the Altamaha River near Darien. (more…)

It’s funny going to the grocery store with my husband… he turns into some 90something year old curmudgeon complaining about the costs of things. “I remember when such and such only cost 30 cents…” stuff like that… really funny since he’s only about to turn 38. Since getting married, he no longer does much grocery shopping. In our house… as the designated cook, I do the groceries. If left to him, I would find I had nothing with which to make for dinner but lots of fruit in the fridge and junk food in the pantry with little of anything else in between. (more…)