Family

After a day of errands in St Petersburg, we enjoyed an evening with Mike, Cathy, Matt, & Emily. Karen finished knitting a hat that looks fabulous on Em who then appropriated Karen's knitting needles and some yarn in her bag and started her own project. Can't wait...

As we walk down the road aside our property this is the scene that we see. We love seeing our world all dressed in it's autumn finery.

Early last spring we faced the disappointing fact that the balsam trees that we had planted in the early 1980's had succumbed to the wooly adelgid. We opted not for the expensive treatment program but to remove them. Then we discovered that the space where they had...

We thought that when we got home from our September rambles that we'd be able to stay home for a while and Karen expected to start working on a baby blanket. However when we stopped to pick up our mail we discovered two wedding invitations - one in Ohio in October and...

It's the railroad that opened up the Smoky Mountains for tourism and it's the railroad that keeps Dillsboro on the map for tourists. But for us it's fun to be running errands and to be able to wave to tourists having fun on the train.

The weather was a little iffy but Vivian came to see fall foliage and we wanted her to see it. From the Blue Ridge Parkway we took the Heintoga Ridge Road to Balsam Mountain Road to Big Cove Road. We were a mile high on a mountain trail limited to one way auto...

Friend Vivian arrived yesterday to check out our new situation, enjoy the fall foliage, and generally rest and relax. We put her up in our bedroom because our other option was an airbed. But today we took delivery of a new sleeper sofa for the library. Tonight we will...