Life In These Here Hills

(C) 2016 Douglas W Davis

Your humble Exhausted Educator took yesterday off to enjoy Father’s Day, and enjoy it I did. From a camper cooked breakfast of biscuits and sausage gravy prepared by my wonderful wife, throughout a rather lazy day of enjoying the beautiful weather here in the North Carolina mountains, to a delightful dinner of barbequed ribs, with fire pit cooked corn-on-the-cob and baked potatoes.

(C)2016 Douglas W Davis

My wife, who grew up on a farm and is used to fresh picked corn-on-the-cob, commented that the corn we ate last evening was “the best corn-on-the-cob” she’d “ever eaten” in her life. Since I was the chef who prepared the meal, I took that as quite a compliment.

(C)2016 Douglas W Davis

The weather here in the mountains yesterday was so wonderful we spent the whole day outside on the “patio.” I had a spot under the awning all set up with easy access to the beverage fridge and a view of the valley and mountain beyond. Though it was sunny, the awning afforded me enough shade to use my laplet (combination laptop and tablet). Throughout the day I wrote new material for my latest Work-In-Progress.

My digital SLR camera finally got to take some pictures yesterday on one of our walks up to the bark park to exercise the dogs. I’m hoping that a couple of the pictures will make the grade and be added to my Pixabay portfolio.

Last night after dinner, once the fire had gone out, we came inside to watch a movie. Being able to watch a DVD on an HDTV doesn’t sound like something one does when one is camping, but our travel trailer has a few nice amenities like that. We watched THE FIFTH ELEMENT starring Bruce Willis and Milla Javovich. When our boys were still living at home and going to school, this was our end of the school year movie to watch. Now my wife watches it with me.

I haven’t listened to, read, or watched the news today. It is not that I’m not interested; it is our intermittent internet connectivity here in the camp. Yesterday it was great. Today, not so much. It is one of those little inconveniences one must put up with when one is “roughing it.”

Today, we are heading out on an adventure to visit a scenic waterfall. Perhaps by the time we get back the winds will push the internet signal back this way.

As always, I remain,

The Exhausted Educator