by Christine | Nov 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where instead of Jack Daniels, our stream runs with ice cold water for the first time since last March, where a stone walk-way leading from the house to our parking compound lies half-completed and is likely to remain so for quite a...
by Christine | May 11, 2012 | Welcome Column
Surrounded by cough syrup and Kleenex at four-thirty in the morning, I’m thinking about Smiley camp, where I’m not gonna be this weekend. I was supposed to be. I meant to be, but life has a way of changing your schedule. The Rumiano’s yearly bash is an event I...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
Don’t let Smoky Mountain smoke get in your eyesIf you do, I’m telling youYou’ll want to live there the rest of your lifeSmoky Mountain, Tennessee.I spent my childhood not very far from the beautiful Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. It was a treat every...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2017 | Welcome Column
George Martin’s “Rattlesnake” post on the message board last week, reminded me of an incident a long time ago that was pretty hair raising. I cant remember the exact year it happened. I think it was about 1976 or ’77. Any way, it was in the...
by Christine | Jul 25, 2009 | Welcome Column
George Martin’s “Rattlesnake” post on the message board last week, reminded me of an incident a long time ago that was pretty hair raising. I cant remember the exact year it happened. I think it was about 1976 or ’77. Any way, it was in the...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2015 | Welcome Column
Contrary to Bill Monroe’s Footprints in the Snow lyrics above, lots of northerners try to get away from all that snow, and go south for the winter months. They are known as “Snowbirds.” Snowbird – Noun; A snowbird is someone from the U.S. Northeast, U.S. Midwest,...
