Peaches to the Beaches!

Our second road trip down Highway 341 for the annual Peaches to the Beaches yard sale was a lot of fun, it was HOT and it was exhausting!  I started Friday with two of my friends from work and the three of us got as far as McRae.

Here we are starting the day in Perry.

Debbie, Christie and I drove and stopped and shopped all day long and got home around 8:00 Friday night.

Here are my treasures from the first day!  I picked up one Pyrex piece, a lid to a Verde divided casserole (now I just have to find the dish to go with it!) and I got my very first Fenton piece!  A beautiful red, orange and yellow compote.  I added Josef Originals Number Nine Birthday Girl to my collection, too, and for only a dollar!  And we all got a laugh out of the 1960's aluminum lobster jello mold I found at an antique store.  I picked up some old campaign buttons and military patches for Larry and some earrings for me.  We girls laughed all day long and just had the best time!  It was truly a great day!  Complete with some Huddle House lunch and a sunburn for me.  Yay!  :)

Saturday, Larry and I got up early and we went on our own PTTB adventure.  We had planned to pick up where Debbie, Christie and I left off but we started in Perry, too, and worked our way east, ending up in Hazlehurst.  A little farther than we got last year!  I made sure I had on lots of sunblock and my floppy beach hat most of the day. 

Here are a few pictures from our day!

 Our Peaches to the Beaches t-shirts

 Smokin' some pig!

 On the road!  We could not have asked for a more gorgeous weekend!

Here's what we found Saturday!  Larry found that Barbed Wire Pyrex divided dish and got it for me and I picked up another Fenton piece (although I thought at the time the lady was pulling my leg about it being Fenton.  It has NO markings.  I researched it when I got home and discovered it's a piece from the 1940's, before they started putting the Fenton mark on the bottom.  It had a sticker instead, which is long gone.  It's a nut/candy dish and I am most happy with it!) along with some Depression glass pieces and a few other treasures.  And I love my "All I need is sweet tea and Jesus" t-shirt!

Two of my favorite finds!  A 1970's tea kettle and a vintage German ballerina music box clock from the 50's. 

We had a Huddle House lunch, too, and while we were waiting for our food and listened to some tunes on the jukebox, Larry took this picture of me with the lapel pin he had gotten for me earlier, hoping that one day I'd be able to truthfully wear it.  I thought it was funny and he didn't realize why until I told him that Saturday was my fourth anniversary at the base.  This pin was a pretty cool, if not a little bit bizarre, find!

Peaches to the Beaches 2016 is in the books.  It was bigger, it was hotter, it was more fun and more crowded than any other year before.  SO MUCH STUFF.  I can't wait to see what next year's is like!  I'm pretty sure that I'm only gonna see it just one day, though.  'Cause zzzzzz....  AND we lost an hour this weekend.  Did I mention zzzzzz....?

What up, Buttercup?

So.  Last week I went back to school to take my specialized communications classes (advanced circuit stuff, radar, fiber optics) that were scheduled for 8:00 am - 12:30 pm.  I didn't know HOW on earth I was going to do that after working until midnight every night but I was going to try.  Well, in His usual fashion, the Lord worked that little problem out for me, too.  The five of us co-ops ended up in a class that starts at noon and gets us out of there in time for us to be at work at the base when we're supposed to be.  So, yeah, sleeping until 9:00 every morning is totally working for me.  :)

Working at night has been quite an adjustment for me.  It's different if you stay up past midnight at home doing stuff, which I do, a LOT, and working until midnight.  Very different.  Plus work is so slow, there's not much to do, and that makes for some very long nights.  But when there is something to do, sitting on top of an F-15 underneath a blanket of stars is pretty cool.

I changed my gym time to just before our supper break so I can go to the gym for an hour.  Uncle Sam gives us three hours a week (2 1/2 if you're part-time like I am right now while I'm in school) to go and DO something.  Go to the gym, walk on the track, bowl, whatever you want to do.  However, what 99% of the people out there want to do is just go home early.  I changed my gym time to when the gym is actually open so I can take advantage of it to help with this 40-pound thingy I've got going.  So far, so good.  I've lost 9 1/2 pounds!  The guys at work are absolutely killing me, though.  I LOVE the pizza from Pizza Depot (the pizza place on base).  There is something about that cheese they use.  OMG.  Anyway, they deliver and every night, somebody gets a pizza delivered!  So I'm sitting over there lookin' all pitiful eating my broccoli and cheese while they're inhaling greasy, salty, cheesy pizza.  Ain't fair.  But that's all right.  I've had that pizza before.  :)

Pretty much my schedule right now is go to school, go to work, go to sleep. But I'll be finished with the co-op in May and I'll only have five classes left to get my degree.  (And they're all online!  Yay!!)  And THEN, there'll be the next degree to start on.  I'm thinking aviation management sounds pretty good.  :)