Think about this ... "be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle"





Wednesday, May 19, 2010

peachy just peachy


Well, really it's a "peachoid" ~ now who's ever heard of a peachoid  (that by the way, is a different link than the first, and perhaps this is the better link).  A peach pie, peach jam, peach cobbler, peaches and cream, just peachy but seriously - peachoid?  Well, once again, I don't make this stuff up.

As I do believe I mentioned earlier, we were headed to Gaffney, SC for the chassis maintenance and Sir Richard was going to chassis school ("Camp Freightliner) to learn all about his chassis ~ oh yeah ~ while the maintenance was being performed over a day and a half (Sir and I have a different tale for a different post for our time during that day and a half - later tho).  So Gaffney is just Gaffney ~ don't really know what to say about it ... depressed old town.  Surprisingly there is an "outlet mall" there and Freightliner is a major employer there, in fact I believe it is the major employer.  We once asked a waitperson there why they thought Freightliner would chose to locate there and the answer, not surprisingly, was "cheap labor" ....

The Freightliner service center is located on a side street off a fairly busy highway through town, in a rather new development with a community college campus (very small campus - one building) at the end of the road.  There is a pond near the campus that we take Sir to sometimes (also, that is where the peachoid photos were taken).  

While Sir was getting some smeggy water play I was enjoying the landscaping around the building - I'd never seen a magnolia blossom or bud up close ~ WOW


They are just beautiful - they petals are so "thick" and smooth.  The blossoms are quite large - five or six inches in diameter ~ just gorgeous.  Isn't that a "neat" photo below of all the spent stamens in the petals!  I gave myself a pat on the back for it!








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