Thanksgiving in Flowery Branch

Judy and I drove to Flowery Branch to spend Thanksgiving with Jody, Renato and the three kids.  It was chilly outside but we enjoyed spending time with the gang......plus their four dogs.  I'm finally updating the blog on January 7 to finish 2017 so my old memory isn't recalling the details of the trip.
Before we made the trip we went to Underwoods for some pecans like we do every year.  We use to go to a place called Broken Branch but their nuts are not as good so we changed last year.

 

Ten pounds of cracked nuts are $40.  We shell them and put them in the freezer so they last a year.

Before we left for Flowery Branch Judy always gets herself prepared.....

Here's our neighbors Christmas lights viewed from our door and the lights and garland we have inside our RV giving us a little festive mood.  And of course our Christmas tree.

 

 

Renato has really changed their home by working on the basement, he's added two bedrooms, a bathroom, a den, and storage space.  The girls are living down there and all three kids play down there and that has made the upstairs MUCH quieter.  Renato is also working on the back porch (below) by enclosing it and making it into year around living space.

Here I am with the Georgia gang.  That's Bertha photo bombing us.

I had my 71st birthday while we were with them.  Cake, I like cake!

Here's Judy with the kids after making pumpkin and pecan pies.  Pie, I like pie!

And here we are having our Thanksgiving dinner.

The official Brasil 2017 Christmas picture.

After Thanksgiving we went to St Augustine and Ocala.  We stayed with Clayton and Pat for 2 or 3 nights visiting them and checking out places to settle down.  We visited one 55+ community in Satsuma, FL where one of out Gulf Shores snowbird friends just bought a place.  It's on the St Johns River and very peaceful, I liked it.  Judy ruled it out as being too remote.....Publix was 29 minutes away.  We checked out another community in Flagler Beach which we liked but their lot rents are pretty close to those of Coquina Crossing where Clayton & Pat live and we think their community is better plus has an indoor pool.  We stuck around another day so a broker could show us several homes there in Coquina Crossing.  Decisions, decisions and decisions.  After this we went to Ocala for two nights to visit my sister Bev.  She's been there 2 years now and really likes it, even the summers.