music camp

I will not bore you with the obvious, the obvious fact that it is late August and I am about to blog about a week during the middle of July.

But since one of the main reasons I blog is to keep a memory book of sort, here goes... and thanks for bearing with me...

After dropping Charlotte off at music camp in South Carolina I was able to spend the entire week with a friend. A dear friend of mine, a past backyard neighbor, one that I had shared early summer morning walks together for fourteen summers..."solving" the world's problems as we jokingly would say. But seriously we walked and prayed...not many things were considered off the charts regarding prayer. She moved away last summer and I still remember that June afternoon she beeped her horn as she and her husband drove past my house leaving for good. I would spend many evenings looking toward her house looking for "her" lights. So now I walk alone, but I still miss her.

 One of the things we talked about several summers ago was a music camp she highly recommended for Charlotte, so when that became a reality she extended the most gracious invitation for me stay the entire week with her. Plans had already been formulated which involved a few hours travel one day,  to Cashiers and Highland, a place she knew I had been wanting to visit.

 The last day of camp my husband drove down  to get us and we were delighted to hear the high school orchestra students perform a most amazing afternoon concert. Charlotte had informed us it was music 24/7, yet I still find it difficult to believe they sounded that good after only five days of being together.

Grill Marks for dinner, huge burgers with a variety of fixings to choose from for a $10.00 price tag. This restaurant was featured on Food Networks "Cheap Eats" back in the spring; not bad for a burger and fries night.