Usually I do a post on the visitors we have while we are working at a site.  We had expected lots of visitors this year, but the pandemic screwed that up.  So we really valued the few visitors we had – some familiar faces among all the weirdness. Our first visitors (back before 2020 got …

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Recently I have been enjoying the limited series (8 episodes) of “Barkskins” on the National Georgraphic Channel.  An ad for it popped up when I was checking the weather one day, and it looked fascinating, so I set a calendar reminder for it. “Barkskins,” based on a part of the book by Annie Proulx, deals …

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I wrote at the end of January about the cargo ship “Golden Ray” that had capsized and was laying on its side in St. Simon’s Sound.  Since January, there have been developments, but the submerged ship is still in St. Simon’s Sound (how about that alliteration?). The team working on getting the ship out of …

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I have been enjoying the flowers here on St. Simon’s.  I started with the thousands of azaleas that you see all over the island.  Now that they are long gone, I still look for blossoms big and small as I take my walks every day. I don’t know what all of these are, but I …

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I read a statistic recently that said people have done twice as much baking during the two months of the Coronavirus self-isolating than they typically do during November and December, the biggest baking months of the year.  I can totally understand that. When I am stressed, I want to eat cookies.  Of course, I also …

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Last Sunday we left the island for the first time in months and headed to Jacksonville, Florida.  We were not, however, traveling for pleasure.  Instead, we were heading to our closest Best Buy to get a new television. Our old 46″ Samsung has served us well, bouncing along with us over thousands of miles of …

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The Carolina Wren is one of many birds we have in abundance at Fort Frederica.  During our recent closure, we found two Carolina Wren nests in odd places. The first nest was in one of the golf carts.  These golf carts are parked under a shelter behind the Visitors Center.  We use them to give …

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Only we remain.  After a winter full of activity with three other couples volunteering at Fort Frederica, only Tom and I remain.  Self-isolating wasn’t so bad when we had other people to share it with, but now days go by without Tom and I seeing or talking to another person.  Don’t feel too sorry for …

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March and April were pollen season in Coastal Georgia.  I used to think spring allergies in Ohio were bad.  And they were, compared to the relatively pollen free air in winter in Ohio.  But, when we came to coastal Georgia in winter, I discovered a whole new level of pollen saturation. Here on St. Simon’s …

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I have a wonderful mother and I am blessed by my mom every day.  I can talk to her anytime and she is always glad to hear from me.  If I visited her everyday, she would still want me back the next day.  For 60 years she has loved and supported me.  I could go …

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