Go War Eagles!!!!

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Ok that title had nothing at all to do with my blog, I was invited by some good friends who own a house on Daufuskie Island down for the weekend. They all graduated from Auburn and we really wish the bartender at Marshside Mama's (and yes you know who you are) would stop placing that damn UGA Go Dawgs sticker on our door. Enough said about sports I picked up another Roger Pinckney book from the store at the public boat dock. "Seventh Son On Sacred Ground" I am sure it is a great book but I will start reading this week and report back to you soon. Friday the 13th (scary) was actually fairly warm on the beach in DI. We walked picked up starfish, sand dollars, cool shells until the afternoon rain came in. Then we went to the Daufuskie Island Resort for some Spicy Bloody Mary's and as a break from the afternoon rainstorm. I am really sad and confused and upset about the bankruptcy of the resort. I am sure my DI property value just got cut in half in January. But I am also very optimistic that a very large resort (Come on Walt Disney) will buy them out and the great center of DI will go on. As soon as we got to broad creek marina in Bluffton/Hilton Head for the 45 minute ferry ride over to Daufuskie Island I could feel the stress of the workweek pouring out of me. A little Jamaican Steel Drum Music on the IPOD and I could have been on my yacht heading for the Caribbean. Valentine's Night was really fun at MarshSide Mama's (The food is Excellent). We had Daufuskie Island Deviled Crab, Large Shrimp and Grits, and please, please order the spinach dip. It is like no other you have ever had. I make it all the time at home for parties and I can not get the consistency that they have. My advice for the week is to seriously consider, quitting your job, living on an island, Daufuskie Island of course and don't forget Go War Eagles!!!!!!

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