Carpenters RV - Pensacola, FL

We missed checking into the blog yesterday because we were enjoying yet another lazy day.  Ain't life grand?  We went to the Navy PX.  That was fun.  Some may disagree with me, but I like the Navy Px's much better than the Air Force.  We purchased two big notebooks - one for our CD's and one for our DVD's.  I know that CD's are a thing of the past, but I like to hold on to the ones I have in case my ipod or my computer fails.  After our shopping escapade we went to Seville Square in downtown Pensacola and had brunch on the water at The Fish House.  Everything looked really good and we had an Oyster Po Boy, Grouper Sandwich and Jambalaya.  After returning to the RV park we took a long walk along the water and through the trails in the woods and called it an early evening.

Today, Billy drove the motor home and I followed in the truck to Carpenters RV Center in Pensacola.  We are spending the night in our motor home at the service center while they outfit the truck and motor home for towing.  I took Maggie for a walk around the outside neighborhood and came back to find that they had just locked up the fenced in area for the evening and locked me out.  Thankfully, I was able to catch them before they left for the night to let me in.  HEHEHEHE!  Hopefully, they will be finished with the work tomorrow and we can return to the campground.

The photo for today is the Iron Horse who resides in a pasture in Greene County, GA.  Thank you Teresa and Mike Cumuze for sharing this first photo with me.  The infamous 12-foot-tall Iron Horse is an abstract sculpture that was created by Abbott Pattison at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art and placed in front of Reed Hall in 1954. The horse was not well received by the students and just hours after its placement, students gathered around the iron creature, placed straw in its mouth and in front of it, manure at its back, and painted the word "front" on its neck. Balloons were tied underneath the rear legs to resemble I can only imagine, and attempts were made to set the horse on fire. When the fire department arrived, the students refused to back away until eventually the fire hoses were turned on the students.

The day after the incident, the university moved the sculpture to a secret hiding place.   In 1959, the Iron Horse was moved to its current location on a farm in Greene County, where it now safely sits in the middle of a corn field, facing south and away from UGA, visible from GA 15 only in the winter. Jack Curtis, owner of the farm, says they are now judging the corn crops on whether or not they can see the horse.

There have been several attempts to bring the Iron Horse back to campus but they all failed.  The Iron Horse has always been a part of the Athens lore that we grew up enjoying.  So for those of you who wondered - this is where we got the idea to call our blog - Iron Horse!