May 31, 2020:
We are laying low, like many in the rest of the country. Our remote county had only 3 cases until North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia opened up travel. With the influx of vacationers and other travelers, the cases jumped within a few days to 70. Looks like it’s our turn in the barrel. Thankfully, Deidra can work from home, at least in the short term, and I am mostly retired, only working a little part-time.
In the interim, finished a workshop, kitchen renovation underway, expanding the garden, taking care of the property and fence lines and continued additional plantings.
December 29, 2019:
We moved from Atlanta to a cabin in the woods outside Franklin NC in October, 2014. We “over-downsized” and it turns out that you really can’t grow much in the woods due to the lack of light.
We found another place in September, 2017, that was a little larger, and on top of a hill. We have 6 acres, some hilly but plenty that is flat enough to grow a garden, some berries, and fruit trees. I mow about 3 acres that is “yard” and have a guy bush hog a couple more acres, with a little left over that is too steep for either, and left wild. We are still adding plants, muscadine grapes and blackberries are on the list for this winter.
April 15, 2013:
We recently got back from a quickly planned trip to Hawaii. We discovered we had a large quantity of “frequent traveler” points that were going to expire, so we arranged for a trip to the Kohala coast.
We found a nice black sand beach with coral just about 20 feet offshore in a protected bay. The winter swells were beginning to come in, with some beaches receiving 15 foot or more face waves, so a nice, nearly deserted beach in a bay with virtually no waves was just great with us. We were tipped off my some of the locals we have met, and I don’t think this beach is in the guidebooks.