Mom's Steinhatchee House
This last week Sandy and some the guys from church went down to my mom's house in Florida to go fishing. My mom has a little house in Steinhatchee, Florida. That is pronounced Steenhatchee and if you say it any other way....the locals will stare at you and call you a tourist.
Last Wed, Sandy, Brad, Eric, Kurt, and Keith plus two friends of Eric's... Todd and Bobby headed off to Florida. They arrived late and found cold weather there to greet them. In all the years my mom has owned this house I don't think we have met up with cold weather....tormenting breath taking hotter than blazes heat....yes, but never cold. They had temperatures of 36 degrees on Wed night. I heard Kurt the lumberjack slept on the porch outside and about froze.
On Thursday, most of the guys went grocery shopping. They found a truckload sale on meat at Mason's...the local grocery. They bought a 20 pound rib eye roast...a slab of meat fit for a King. They grilled out Friday night.... a slab of meat and a few veggies on the side for decoration.
Last Wed, Sandy, Brad, Eric, Kurt, and Keith plus two friends of Eric's... Todd and Bobby headed off to Florida. They arrived late and found cold weather there to greet them. In all the years my mom has owned this house I don't think we have met up with cold weather....tormenting breath taking hotter than blazes heat....yes, but never cold. They had temperatures of 36 degrees on Wed night. I heard Kurt the lumberjack slept on the porch outside and about froze.
On Thursday, most of the guys went grocery shopping. They found a truckload sale on meat at Mason's...the local grocery. They bought a 20 pound rib eye roast...a slab of meat fit for a King. They grilled out Friday night.... a slab of meat and a few veggies on the side for decoration.
Slab O'Meat
Eric and Bobby slicing veggies
Friday was the big fishing day. They had two charters. One was with Captain Pat...the usual family fishing guide. Sandy, Keith, Kurt and Brad went on his boat. The other guys...Eric, Todd, and Bobby went with Captain Steve. They had a great time and caught 115 pounds of fish between the two boats. They caught trout, red fish, flounder, mackerel, lizard fish, pin fish, blue fish, a stingray, and a shark. There is a huge variety of fish in the Steinhatchee river and lot of good fishin' .
The Boys....Brad, Sandy, Kurt, and Captain Pat
Keith, Kurt, Brad and Captain Pat
Keith, Kurt, and Captain Pat
The Combined Catch
Pile O'Fish
Friday night they were to tired to cook out the fish so some of the guys headed to Roy's...a local seafood joint. They had a great meal and then headed back to the house and crashed.
Saturday morning some of the guys headed home. Eric, Kurt, Bobby, and Todd left out about 6am heading home. Sandy, Keith, and Brad stayed over until Sunday morning before heading home. They did a little of the local sight seeing and went to see Steinhatchee Falls (more like a two foot drop in the river than a falls) and Keaton Beach (Panama City it ain't...) and then they cooked out fish on Saturday night.
Steinhatchee Falls
Keaton Beach
Remnants of Easter on Keaton Beach
This Hot Dog Stand on Keaton Beach
was listed for sale for $1,000,000 last time
we were there.
The guys had a great time of brotherhood and bonding. They are already making plans for next year.
Anyone want to check out Steinhatchee? It's a great place to go and hang out and let your soul catch up with you.
Tammy
9 comments:
Actually, we didn't go back and crash... we felt like it, but there was card playing on the porch and Friday night boxing on the tele in the house. I guess most of us got to bed around midnight or so... right "snort-wheez"? Oh, btw, did we have perfect timing on the "truckload meat sale" or what!!! I had an awesome time with all my brothers.... I hope you all had fun too!
Sandy
Keith had a great time. Tammy please tell your mom thanks!
Kurt had a great time and is already looking forward to next year! The truckload meat sale was a hit with my 'lumberjack'- along with the little veggies on the side! Thanks for posting the pics.
Love ya,
Marilyn
Eric had a blast once again! Your mom is awsome to share her house with them!!!
Ditto all of the above for Brad. He always looks forward to it, and always has a GREAT time. Again, thank you (and your mom) for loaning the house. Its important for the guys to get some R&R too.
Shana
Sounds like where I would love to live. And tell the guys "Can a brother get an invite to do fun crap???!!!" haha.
It looks like they had a blast. I'm glad they enjoyed it!!
Thanks for bringing back a lot of fond memories for me concerning Steinhatchee. That was one of mine and Doug's favorite places to go when we were younger. We would get up early and drive down to eat fish, spend the night and come back on Sunday. Sometimes we actually stayed several days and fished. Once we even got an anchor stuck, had to cut it off and pay for a new one. Oh how I wish we had bought a little house back then before the condo's came in.
Glad to see the guys had such a good time.
Love you both
Elaine
Looks like a wonderful time was had by all! What great pictures you posted! Thanks for sharing!
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