Colbeck of Johns Creek.... Wild America

The Adventures of Our Backyard

So, since we've been letting Prissy outside during the day and some nights, we've noticed having more and more critters showing up on the back deck. We've always had the mama and baby deer in the back yard, although it's been a while since they've been around. We've also had plenty of birds and 4 very fat squirrels that spend the day digging food out of the squirrel proof bird feeder. But what we find entertaining are the critters that show up at night to eat whatever food is left over in Prissy's food bowl. It's amazing how brave they are too!

I call him Poppy 5000. I was expecting to see a raccoon eating her food, but when I turned the light on, I found him. Pretty cool little dude. He's been around a few times.

Prissy and the biggest of the 5 raccoons, who I call Bandit. I actually have seen her sitting on the deck with 4 raccoons like nothing was going on. We are actually able to open the back door and let her in and they continue to eat.

I have long video of Chris sitting outside feeding Bandit. This is a shorter one where Bandit catches Little Rocky peering around the corner and chases him away from the food. Chris said it sounded like a cat fight with all the growling going on. Pretty funny! I hope to have more videos on here soon.

REALLY got some catching up to do!

Ok.... so, I've been a little preoccupied with trying to find work AND planning a wedding these days... months... whatever. I didn't realize it's been since Jan since I've added a post, so I'll just do a brief little post here to catch everyone up.

Wedding Plans..... WAHOO!!!! The date.... Sept 26.... the location.... St. George Island on the beach. We always talked about a small beach wedding with just our close family since the two of us aren't exactly the kind of people that like to be out in front of a crowd. This is perfect! Got our beach houses set and the photographers are nuts, so this should make things really fun. I guess as far as the wedding goes, all we have left are pulling together the details and getting the guys their Hawaiian shirts. I've got my dress, so I know I'm set. hehehee!

Reception to follow.... kind of. We decided we still wanted to share this time with our family and friends and well, have excuse to party like rock stars, by having a large reception when we get back from the honeymoon. Got the place picked..... The Stovall House up in Sautee, GA right down the road from the Shoemake's Hab House. The most beautiful area around and I'm sooo excited. Next step is to run up there and meet with the owner and chef and pick out the menu and then meet with the crazy tent guy to decide what size tent we need. Should be fun!!! I just hope through both weekends, we don't have to deal with any hurricanes since it will be prime hurricane season.

Jobby Job search.... not as exciting. Yeah... so it's been about 6 months since I started my retirement and I've applied to close to 10 jobs.... I guess out of the 10, maybe 2 were landscape architecture jobs. It's bleak out there. VERY BLEAK! Good news, and I hope this doesn't jinx me by going ahead and mentioning this, I did go in and interview with Pike Nursery about 5 minutes down the road from here and the interview rocked!!!! The best part.... Pike's Landscape Design Department is housed in that very building. They don't have any openings now, but IF I get this job, they would get a chance to get to know me and hopefully I'll be able to have my foot in the door when they do start looking for anyone else. That's my hope at least. For now, I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that it's good news when I get a call from them at the end of the week.

There.... my life in review...hehehee! I'll add more later, but I wanted to get all the good stuff in first. Wahoo!!!!