It's Only a Quarter Mile but We Have Moved

Finally!  A spot has come open in the full hook-up section of Little Talapoosa Park.  It is the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend and we have been given the green light to vacate our equestrian site and occupy a paved site with power, water and yes, sewer!

Now the challenge is to get packed, hitched and moved while on crutches.  But it has been nine weeks since the break and John is about to be released for using a walking cast.  He's already been driving left footed for the last month.  We won't be as fast as usual but we'll get it done.

Our new digs for the next several weeks.

Little Talapoosa Park is a very nice park with groomed walking/biking trails, some even paved, and our new campsite fits right in.  It is spacious and level with a view out our rear picture window looking into a mixed woods of conifers and hardwoods.  While the site is mostly clear of trees directly above and to our forward position, there are a couple of trees off to the side that are directly in line of our satellite signal.  Luckily the one that is most in line is a hardwood and it is beginning to drop its leaves.  We got enough of a signal that the dish could align with the satellite but our higher channels are pretty pixelated.  Every time the wind blows and knocks a few more leaves off our picture gets better.  It should be perfect by mid-December.

Our attention is now turning to the coming Christmas holiday and the volunteer job we are lining up with the Corps of Engineers.  We have been accepted as Day Use Park Attendants at a Corps of Engineers facility on the Etowah River.  This river park is literally at the bottom of the dam to Lake Allatoona in north Georgia.  Our duties at this place will be the most minimal we have done at any volunteer position, only opening and closing one gate each day we are on duty (4 days on, 4 days off) and sitting in a gate house for a few hours if our duty falls on a weekend.  We have been told we can move into the park on or about Feb 20th.  While this is about the easiest volunteer duty we have ever pulled, it is even better because we are only thirty minutes away from the grand baby.