Old County Jail

This is the old county jailhouse at 203 Milledge Ave. I'm not sure what it is used for now, but it was being used as the Walton County 4H office till recently. It also has a dark history linked to the Moore's Fork Lynching which you can read more about
HERE

Horseshoe Crabs

Over spring break we went down to Cumberland Island/St. Marys and camped for a week. While walking along the shore, we saw these Horseshoe Crabs. We first found an empty shell of a horseshoe crab a couple years back at Tybee Island, washed up on the shore but we had no idea what it was.
It was interesting watching this group of crabs. They stayed bunched together like this for about 10 minutes, then they all kind of formed a line and swam out to sea!

Team Work

Yesterday with the temps around 80, we decided to head to the lake at Ft. Yargo, which I've mentioned
HERE
Ft. Yargo is the closest place to swim from our house so we spend alot of time there in the summer.
The water, still too cold for me, was just fine for the kids. Braden and Dalton decided to warm up a bit and build sand castles.
After swimming for a couple of hours, we went up to the picnic table and grilled hamburgers.

And a bonus picture of Braden just because when he wears goggles, it always makes me smile!

Have a wonderful day!

Wrestling in Monroe

Yesterday, my husband saw a sign at a local market for a wrestling event being held. Our boys love the WWE so we thought this would be a fun local event to take them to. It was housed in the Monroe Paintball Works buildingMonroe Paintball Works which at one time was an old cotton gin. It lies right next to the railroad tracks. The wrestling group we saw was the FWF - Future Wrestling Foundation and you can read about them Here

We all had alot of fun. There were quite a few kids and the kids got really caught up in all the action, yelling at the wrestlers and their managers, and the wrestlers and managers would yell back at them. My husband and I laughed the whole night! We also were suprised to find out one of the wrestlers turned out to be my husbands barbers brother! He's the one in the red swim trunks and blond hair.
During intermission, the wrestlers were all very friendly with the kids and signed autographs.

The top photo is of 2 of my boys, Braden and Dalton getting their picture taken with the wrestler "Loco Motive".
They had a couple of favorites: Psycho Man, who wore clothes from the mental health hospital, a good guy named Rob Russo, who stood up for the fans in Monroe when all the other wrestlers called us "trailer trash" lol and a scary looking wrestler who is named "Leather Face" and comes out with a mask, waving a chain saw. But it turns out he's one of the good guys too.

A fun night was had by all!

Pine Trees and Shadows

This is my backyard. We have quite a few of these very tall pine trees. They are so tall and thin that when it storms, they actually blow from side to side, which can get a little scary! Once during an ice storm, one of our younger pines, was so heavy with ice that it was laying on the ground. I thought that it had broke off, but it wasn't. A few days after the ice melted, the tree sprang back into shape. It's doing fine since, just a small arc in it's trunk. That was also one of our pines that was hit with lightning, that I showed a few posts back.
I like the way these gigantic trees cast shadows in my yard!

Water Tower

Downtown Monroe, taken from Lumpkin Street.

May Theme Day - Numbers

This is my boy's bus that I am following out of the school parking lot. We were headed to Athens to see "Horton Hears a Who" yesterday. I mentioned on Monday that we were going, but I was incorrect and we weren't going till Wednesday (yesterday). The children had to ride in the bus and parents had to follow.

(I didn't register in time to participate with the numbers theme so I don't have any links)