We walked up to the school house and museum (without a camera). The one-room school house is an example of how school houses were constructed in the 1700's in the Waxhaw region of South Carolina. There was suppose to be a copy of the Lancaster County teacher's exam of 1917. (Sorry Lisa, I could not find it). Most children learned enough at local common schools to read the Bible and run their farms. More ambition parents, like Andrew Jackson's mother, paid the school master to teach advanced classes. The museum held artifacts of the Waxhaw area and Andrew Jackson's life from childhood through presidency, to death.
Mike, Diane and Jessica (my brother and his family) were coming for dinner so we decided to use our new charcoal grill. Buddy expected to pull it out of the box and attach a couple of legs. When we opened the box we found dozens of screws, wing nuts, washers and miscellaneous parts --- 2 1/2 hours later we were ready to cook. Mike, Diane and Jessica arrived with shrimp, steak and wine in hand. I made new potatoes, in my crock pot, fresh (frozen) corn from Fraziers and homemade blackberry (from the rock mines) cobbler. After over indulging ourselves, we took a walk around the lake on one of the nature trails.
June 15, Happy Father's Day
We went to Mike and Diane's for lunch. Again, we over indulged! Another great meal. Afterwords, Buddy and Mike jacked up a shed in Mike's backyard and replaced some timbers. Somehow we managed to cut the cable line, oops!
June 16 - After washing the truck and taking a walk, we decided to lounge around. I wanted to take a picture of us sitting around the camp. It sounded so simple. Problem was - I didn't know how to set the controls on the camera. So we opened a bottle of wine, and the manual for the camera. We finished the bottle and you can see the results in one of the pictures below. By the way, just click on the picture to see the complete "album". We will be on the road again tomorrow - we are meeting up with John and Sue (our neighbors from home) at Stone Mountain, NC.
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