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The day after Christmas Gary and Peter had to leave us and the rest pitched in to either prepare a St Stephen's Day feast German style (Thank you, Phil) or to haul firewood from the lower acres up to the wood pile alongside the driveway. Then in the evening Dave,...
Christmas festivities started Friday afternoon when Gary arrived and continued Christmas Eve with the arrival of CJ and Phil in the morning and of Peter, Rachel, and Greg in the evening. We all spent Christmas leisurely enjoying one another, delighting one another...
Bill & Dovie came for a visit this weekend. We had a wonderful time catching up on one another's lives. We shared some of the travel photos from their childhood that we have recently had scanned from slides to digital. That conjured up some fun memories! And Bill...
Just after we moved here three years ago we decided we wanted to name our property and to have a handcrafted sign to welcome visitors. It took us a while to settle on the right name and then another long time to find the artist to craft the sign for us. Finally we...
It's finished! Finally! This project began on May 2, 2010 when we visited an LYS (local yarn shop) in Odessa with CJ and Phil. We got everything - yarn, pattern, needles - needed for a sweater. Steve was sport enough to agree to wear a sweater if Karen knit it for...
Back in the 1950's Steve's Dad took a lot of color slide photos. Some of them he printed up as black and white photos. Some of the best he protected with glass plates on either side. We've realized that the plates have been collecting dirt through the years both on...
We awakened today to a gray, misty morning. At one point we were totally inside the cloud here on our mountainside. The best antidote to that is yummy comfort food. We dug in the freezer and pulled out local blueberries and blackberries and whipped up a batch of berry...
We may be jumping the gun just a little but we want to be able to take our time and enjoy the process of getting ready for Christmas. We went to Watson's tree farm just down the road and chose our own tree. The epitome of freshly cut! It's now up in it's stand in the...
We began our Thanksgiving Day with a hike in the woods. We can accessthe Nantahala National Forest by hiking up the road behind us. It was a chilly morning, below freezing when we started out but we bundled up and headed out. Later in the day we roasted a chicken that...
Had to run an errand over on US441 south of Dillsboro and on our way home through Webster we took a road less traveled which afforded us a delightful view of anglers trying to wrest trout from the waters of the Tuckasegee River.
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Last night we had the distinct pleasure of being guests of Katie & Scott at Valley Pasture Farm in Elk Mound, Wisconsin as a part of the Harvest Hosts program. We are so grateful for the opportunity to renew our annual membership year after year and thus have...
This trip we've slowed down considerably. In general we're looking to drive less than three hours between stops and generally stay for three or four days. Today's the first day of a transition. We're leaving Thomson Causeway Campground, an Army COE site on an island...
After a mere twenty hours of extra driving, we're back on track after our trek to Ohio and our return trek to Illinois. We did most of the trip on Sunday with an overnight at the Kanakee South KOA Holiday near Chebanse, Illinois. Then on Monday we settled in for three...