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Phoenix 110 Greer 75 – not a score of basketball blowout, but the difference in high temperature between where we live and where we vacationed a few days earlier this week.  What a beautiful place Greer is!  We stayed at the Red Setter Inn in one of their honeymoon cabins, a very nice place in a quiet, cool pine forest setting.  It was a total get-away – no phone, no wireless, no cell coverage.

Most of the day we spent walking around the grounds, sitting on the deck of the main Inn reading, talking with people at the Inn, coming back to the cabin to take a nap or to sit around and read some more.  I got through a couple of books and Cindy spent some time preparing for her women’s Bible study and doing some other reading.  We did give in to civilization one night and watched one of the movies that the Inn had available to borrow.

Last year, which was our first time there, we spent more time away from the cabin driving around the area.  This year we pretty much stuck close to home base and instead of eating every meal out, we brought some food with us.  We did eat out a couple of times, but for the most part we just hung out at the Inn and our cabin.

We saw much more wildlife this year than I remember seeing last year.  The evening we arrived, we saw two deer right next to our cabin not 20 ft from the road. We saw deer several times during our stay, including once when we watched two young deer apparently playing by chasing each other around one of the cabins, and parking themselves right underneath the cabin’s deck for a while to survey their surroundings.  We also saw plenty of squirrels, soaring birds, ducks, geese, and (Cindy’s favorite) robins.  None of these animals feared coming close, although they would run away if you tried to approach them.  One little bird was hopping around on the deck within a foot or two of Cindy, and squirrels frequently were running around our feet.

These few days were exactly what I was hoping for – a time to get away, cool down and relax.