Home again, home again, jiggedyjog.
Jann Heaton Skeen
There truly is no place like home.
Lyn Davis
That was a fast trip!
Terrell Shaw
Yep down on Friday, back on Sunday. But we had a great visit with our two-year-old niece, Vada ...and her parents and grandparents, of course.
Barbara J. Gale
I say that all the time and my kids look at me like I'm from another planet...so glad someone else uses it.
Nora Matthews
We have a great time too. Maybe we can make it to georgia in July for fireworks!!
 |
| My nephew Benjamin checks his wingspan against that of other buzzards |
 |
| Natalie Davis calms a little gator. He looks pleased. |
 |
| Brianne Davis & AnnaGrace Turrentine get aquainted with one of our gators. |
 |
| Brianne Davis & AnnaGrace Turrentine get aquainted with one of our gators. |
 |
| Natalie Davis's Lake Arrowhead pic. |
Hymenophyllum tunbrigense (Tunbridge Filmy-fern)
My association with Richard & Teresa Ware these last 45 years or so has enriched my life in many ways. One of those ways is by spurring my interest in botany and providing me a passing acquaintance with some of the most knowledgeable botanists in the Southeast. So today I am privy to enlightening posts like this one from Dr. Alan Weakley of the University of North Carolina and the author of Flora of the Southern & Mid-Atlantic States.
Ecological facts of the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment. The most consistently moist place in North America (month by month, year by year, millenium by millenium, and geologic era by geologic era) is the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment region of sw. NC, nw. SC, and ne. GA, along the gorges of the Eastatoe, Toxaway, Horsepasture, Chattooga, and Whitewater). Waterfall central (more than anywhere else in North America), Shortia, filmy-ferns, and many other wonders, including a world-class hot-spot of organisms requiring high humidity: lungless salamanders, filmy-ferns, liverworts, mosses, lampshade spiders... (thank you, Lewis Anderson, R.I.P.). As end of year approaches, the Lake Toxaway Weather Station has recorded 127.55 inches for 2013, well above the usual standard for "temperate rain forests" of 80 inches, and the rainfall and humidity is higher still down in the gorges than at this station! - Alan Weakley, FaceBook, December 26, 2013
Jenifer Beaver
I absolutely loved it. I plan to see it again during the break. I totally went into the ugly cry during Hanks monologue. Hanks blew me away with those words.
Terrell Shaw
Sheila cried too.
George Barton
And "Mary Poppins" is finally out on blu-ray.
Clayton Hensley
I truly need to get to sleep ... I read George's comment and thought it said Mary Poppins finally came out!
Laurie Cook-Critchlow
Good because we are seeing it today
Jim Geist Disney was so anti-union, I am not sure I will be able to watch it....time will tell.
Mary Bradley Johnston, my newest great niece, meets my mother, her great grandmother.From Carol Shaw Johnston's Facebook: Grandma Ruth (aka the baby whisperer) meets Mary Bradley.
We've got to wade into it with Brannon this weekend. I'm so thankful the ACA is available to her. Still I dread a complicated online sign-up. But I remember the long meetings with insurance guys over the years, at home and at work, so a one-time two-and-a-half hour online ordeal doesn't sound horribly onerous.
From Ray Atkins's Facebook:
The bad news is it took 2 1/2 hours and a Master's Degree to wrangle some insurance out of the federal healthcare exchange last night.The website sucks, but it's worth the effort.(put a Buy It Now button on there, y'all!)
Howard Smith
Terrell Shaw, every year my wife's policy (public school teacher) changes and we spend pretty much that much time reviewing our options as I am sure you know.
Laurie Craw
This does NOT relate to your two daughters specifically but to all our daughters. The best reason for healthy young women or young couples to get insurance is the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy. Healthy young people may be oblivious to the possibility of accidents or serious illness but pregnancy is a natural and very common occurrence. Birth control is NOT 100% effective and the cost of prenatal care and hospital delivery, under the best of circumstances runs into the thousands. Complications before, during or after can bring financial ruin. Pregnancy and childbirth are always risky, and not all babies are born healthy. When I conceived our first child back in the Stone Ages, I didn't have health insurance because I had just started a new job, and for eight months I worried about how we would pay the doctor and hospital. The Ob-GYN demanded full payment of his standard delivery fee IN ADVANCE of the due date in addition to payment-at-time of service for the prenatal visits. When you're pregnant, you don't need that kind of stress, daughters. So be smart. Get insurance now before you need it.
Raymond Atkins
Beware the urge to cuss about halfway through the process, Terrell. It'll pass.
Several posts today
-------------------------
 |
| Annie Belle Brannon Snell (r) and Lillie Murphy Brannon. Annie was Sheila's grandmother and a wonderful woman. Sharp as a tack till her death at 97 in 1981. We chose our daughter Brannon's name to honor Annie's memory. |
Lillian Shaw
Amazing hats!
Debbie Bullington Quattrin
Thank you so much for posting this! I remembered seeing it but had no idea where. Hugs to you all! Terry, is there a date on the pic? Any guess on the year? Figure she is an older teen or younger twenty-something? 1900 (age 16) to 1905 (age 21) is my guess. Am I close? Lyndsey Anne Quattrin and Maggie Mae Quattrin, Annie Bell is your great-great grandmother, my 'Granny'
Nora Matthews
Uncle Terry. Dad wants to know where you found this picture
Terrell Shaw
Debbie I imagine you are right about the date. No date on the pic. Nora, I don't remember how we came by this pic. Either Granny (Annie) or Granny (Mavis) gave it to us I guess.
Hill Sawyer
What an incredible photo!
Nora Matthews
So I'm guessing they were sisters? Which one was Brannon named after?
Betty Smith Franklin
beauties.....
Howard Smith
nice hats
John Countryman
Fabulous shot! What awesome "costumes!"
Stephanie Brendel Bradford
This photo is so interesting- they are posing as good as some contestants on Americas Next Top Model”
Amanda Hearn Sims
And here I always thought you came up with Brannon on your own
Hans Andre Dorce
Beautiful Ladies...wow!
-----------------------------
 |
| Taken at a rocked-in spring on our property at the cabin on Lake Creek in (very) southern Floyd County during the seventies. Am I a lucky man? Yes, I am. Gorgeous Sheila Matthews Shaw was 23 or 24, believe it or not. Ann Gore You are. ------------------------- |
 |
| We haven't changed a bit, have we? This was taken along the Tear-Britches trail or there-abouts in the Cohuttas in the mid-seventies. |
2013 Elizabeth McGinnis Johnson Elizabeth McGinnis Johnson Ann Gore 2019 Hans Andre Dorce
Susan Myers Smith Jeri Carter Terrell Shaw Mike Bock Howard Smith Cynthia Anderson Eason Stacie Scoggins Marshall Ralph Davis Anita Stewart Jane Nelson Risdon  |
| Brannon considered drawing her job during her pre-school years. She would get home from day-care and go immediately to the little table and chairs set in the living room and draw. Here she decided to sketch her new sibling more than seven months before Lillian's birth. |
Julie Dahlinger
Realism has always been her strongest point
Lillian Shaw
Don't be offended that this is hidden from my Timeline.
Terrell Shaw
What!? I'm appalled. You are OUT of my will.
Brannon Shaw
Lillian Shaw: YOU DON'T GET MY ART!
CaroIine Atkins
I think we meed to focus on what's really important here. Brannon Shaw I never knew your mom has a shark fin and dog paws! She looks happy to be having Lillian soon.....insanely happy.
Terrell Shaw
Caroline you caused some raucous laughter in our den just now. They say a deep belly laugh each day is the key to longevity. Thanks for extending our lives a bit tonight.
CaroIine Atkins
My pleasure, but I think Brannon is the real star here.
 |
| Miguel's Upholstery will have this chair (and its ottoman) recovered for us by tomorrow noon... I'll take a pic. This is after they had stripped off much of the old, old, cushioning, strapping, springs, and cloth. |
 |
| Here's the recovered chair with foot stool in our living room. I think Miguel did a great job refurbishing this very old set. |
 |
| I hope I can find a before pic of this other old chair. It was in our old house when we bought the contents in 1993. Glad to finally have it looking good. I sanded, stained, and refinished the very-dried-almost-weathered-looking wood then had Miguel's Upholstery recover it with cloth we bought at Hancock's Fabric. |
Booze Creek, looking toward "Kaleidoscope Rock" Dec. 3, 2013 on the campus of Pepperell Primary School.
Great day so far. All the good guys are leading. Noles have a win recorded against the Swamp Lizards. The Jackets are whuppin' the Dawgs. And the Team-Opposing-Alabama is leading in the second quarter.
Wendy Ramsey
And Ohio State pulled out a win against Michigan!
Ruth Pinson
Don't count my Dawgs out yet....17 unanswered points...20-17....there's still hope for those of us who are true UGA alums!!!!
Terrell Shaw
27-24 now -- fun game.
Ruth Pinson
Not Fun!!
Overtime, yuk!
Terrell Shaw
I may need an extra blood pressure pill.
Congrats, Ruth and the Dawgs.
Ruth Pinson
Yea!!!! Dawgs win!!!!! Whew!!!!
Terrell Shaw
Where IS that dislike button?! As one of my friends said, don't you wish we could have heard Munson call this one?
Ruth Pinson
Yes, we do.
Hal Massie
Ruth, I don't know you, but I like you! Never, ever count the Dogs out! GO DAWGS!!!
Terrell Shaw
Hal, you and Ruth would share some viewpoints beyond your affection for stinky ol' Dawgs- you as a botanist and she as a wonderful 4th grade teacher with an environmental approach to education -- and the best classroom garden around.
Hal Massie
Sounds like my kind of person. My wife is a third grade teacher. We tried once to put in a garden at her school, but it failed due to lack of support from the school and extreme droughts.
By the way, Terrell, I've been meaning to ask you something. In 1993 I attended the state Master Gardener conference, which was held in Rome that year. I stayed in a Berry College dorm, where I fell out of bed and broke my arm on the second day of the conference. Despite the pain (and I really didn't think it was broken), I went on several garden tours in the area, including one of the finest private gardens I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure the lady that built that garden was named Ruth Shaw. Is she a relative of yours? The only thing I can tell you about the location is that the home and garden were high on a ridge and most of the garden was terraced.
Terrell Shaw
My wonderful mother is Ruth Shaw but not that Ruth Shaw. My Mama didn't live in Rome in 1993 and though she raises a few tomatoes and assorted flowers she has no terraces and has never been a hostess of a garden tour to my knowledge.
