Our Hiking Trip today!

Kevin, Jax (the rotten boxer) and I went for a hike this morning at Lake Sylvia - a very neat place that I didn't know existed!! It was only about a 45 minute drive and will be a cool spot to go back and camp. I am sure we will head back in the fall!! It will really be gorgeous when the leaves are changing colors!!!
This is me and Jax at the beginning of the hike when we both had energy and thought this is easy! ha! Notice at the moment we are on flat ground....the climbing was soon to begin!! You will also notice Jax in the lead here - he thinks he has to be in front at all times! But, he is just as out of shape as I am and at times, he fell to the back of the line!! He made it though or rather WE made it! LOL!
The view from the top was worth the effort to get there!!
The dam was really to see up close!
My two favorite boys leading the way!!

A great day!!! :-)

Hiking fun & Jax...

We took Jax with us Saturday for his last hoorah for awhile. He ate it up! Of course, he was exhausted for the ride home & I think secretly laughed at us while he tried to "gas" us out of the car! :-)

He had his surgery today & made it through fine. Just talked to the vet and he replaced two ligaments with artificial ligaments. He said he had arthritis really bad & will be on "old man" meds for the remainder of his days. He gets to come home tomorrow - thank goodness - it is too quiet here without a dog!!!

Happy Halloween!

Ghost town

On our trip Saturday, we also explored a ghost town called Rush. Heard of it? I hadn't - pretty cool! There was a hiking trail & old closed down mines. There used to be over 5,000 people who lived here & now nothing! Some places were even occupied as early ago as the 50's. I had never heard of it & history isn't my thing -ha! - but it was fun to explore!

Wow!

What a GREAT weekend!! Kevin & I hit the roads on Saturday morning and headed toward the Buffalo river area. The trees were absolutely gorgeous and the scenery was awesome!! We stopped first at Buffalo Point where these pictures were taken. I was ready to get the heck out of the car by the time we got there ~ the last 30 minutes or so was hilly and curvy and I felt like I had been on a roller coaster ride! ha!

We walked around here for a bit and then headed to pick up lunch and went to another neat area to eat a picnic lunch and go on a "mini hike". I'll post those pics tomorrow.

We found some really neat places to camp! They had group campsites at Buffalo Point. If you were with a group of friends for the weekend, it would be fun!

More to come later...it was such a good weekend! Best in awhile! :-)