Author: Julia

I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.

Not All Fun Times

April 7, 2022 We aren’t always doing fun things. Yesterday, Bruce took the truck to get the oil changed, fuel filter changed, oil filter changed, etc. While Bruce was handling the truck stuff, I finished entering the numbers for our taxes. To get the final numbers, I had to call to find out how to […]

A Walk Around the Historic Downtown of ElliJay, GA

April 7, 2022 On Tuesday, April 5th, we rode the motorcycle in downtown ElliJay, GA. It a beautiful historic downtown with lots of restaurants. We rode through the large roundabout by the courthouse and welcome center and parked in the large public parking lot. The welcome center was closed, but they had pamphlets for visitors […]

Nox Attacks

April 4, 2022 This is a post for Tom from “Within the K Streets”. A while back, he wondered what would happen when Nox encountered a palmetto bug. The following video tells the story.

Hatching season

Two little colts (baby sandhill cranes) This week I watched a couple sandhill cranes “walk” a six foot alligator all the way across the pasture to … Hatching season We were enchanted with the Sandhills cranes in Florida. Then they disappeared. One of our RV neighbors said the Sandhill cranes had left to nest. Here’s […]

Talona Ridge RV Resort in Elijah, GA

April 4, 2022 After we finished our shopping at Walmart, we drove the half a mile to the new campground, Talona Ridge RV Resort. We are planning to stay here for two weeks. This is a brand new campground and not all sections are open yet. They plan to have more sections open part way […]

Plans Fall Through, Dry Camping at a Rest Area on I-75

April 4, 2022 Since we only could get two nights at Victoria Campground, Bruce had reserved a month for us at another campground, Allatoona Landing Marina and Campground. Bruce checked in an then we slowly drove to the spot. Kids wizzed past on bicycles, skates, and scooters as we made our way slowly around the […]

Victoria Campground at Lake Allatoona in Georgia

April 3, 2022 Victoria Campground is a COE (Corps of Engineers or more fully, US Army Corps of Engineers) campground. Many people think that COE campground are just for the military, but anyone can stay in one. They do have a limit of 2 weeks. The COE campgrounds don’t have full hookups. They do have […]

Onto Victoria Campground, Georgia at Lake Allatoona

April 3, 2022 We had horrible traffic on I-95 heading towards Savannah, GA. The traffic was stop and go and just stopped. I was glad we had a full fuel tank. After looking at Waze and seeing where the bad traffic was, we got off onto the coastal highway, Highway 17. It was a beautiful […]

On Our Way to New Campground

March 31, 2021 I am posting from the truck as we head to our new campground. We did some packing up last night. Most of the getting ready we did this morning. We left the campground at 10:28 am. Since our tanks were full, we needed to dump them. We were careful with our water […]

Saint Andrews Beach on Jekyll Island, GA

March 31, 2022 On Tuesday, the weather was glorious! We decided to head to Saint Andrews Beach. Saint Andrews beach is on the river side of Jekyll Island on the Jekyll River. it is dog friendly, so Nox came with us. It has a picnic area at the beach access and I forgot to get […]