Posted by Fay on November 9, 2008
In honor of the beautiful fall colors, I will have the blog in fall orange until the Christmas holidays. You can vote, do you want red or green for Christmas or there are also some totally new winter/holiday themes that might work?
How much did you pay attention? What color was the blog before it was orange?
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Posted by Fay on November 9, 2008
A comment on kudzu got caught in the spam bucket and I just found it today. Kudzu has some pretty interesting qualities as a medicine. The Chinese used it 2000 years ago. Alcohol treatment is one of it’s properties. Below is the comment. I did a google search on kudzu and medicine and it is quite well documented. Here is just one of many links: http://www.peacehealth.org/KBASE/cam/hn-2119009.htm
Charlotte Fairchild Says:The citations are on http://www.kudzus.blogspot.com in the links below the splash page.
Great article. Please include http://www.kokudzu.com for people who want to know how to eradicate kudzu without poisons. Jim Miller supports this experiment station and the research.
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Posted by Fay on November 9, 2008
Last week was busy with construction crews to help us finish off the lower level. One room will be done we hope by early Jan. and will be the new “spa room/guest room with king size bed” with the spa outside. We also have a large storage closet and a half bath in this part of the project. One room will be unfinished until we decide if we want to make it into an apaprtment and the third room will be partially finished for storage and work room for Bob and I. However, all need heating and electricity and insulation. We had 2-3 heating/cooling guys here for two days putting in a heat pump, air conditioner and lots of duct work. The electrician was here for three days and on Thursday we had two young guys, who I found on craigslist.com, come and cut down three small trees and clear out a lot of brush from the 120′ by 50′ mini forest behind us. They exceeded expections. They worked about 10 hours, and that is in addition to the 8 hours Bob already worked out there. I will soon take some photos.
Monday we get the large 10′ by 40′ cement slab acid stained and Friday the new hot tub comes!!!!!! Wait until you hear about that.
When Bob returns from MN he will insulate all of the rooms and hopefully by then we have someone hired to sheetrock, tape and sand the spa room and work room. After that ceiling and floor and bathroom. Whew!
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Posted by Fay on November 9, 2008
A final entry as we conclude our Bryson City trip last week. The round trip to see both waterfalls was a mile. Fay went slow uphill for the first .3 miles and then it was all pretty flat surface. We were almost the only ones there. They were in Great Smokey Mountain National Park. There were a couple other water falls close by but more of a hike. We ended with a stop at Maggie Valley. The pictures don’t do the view justice. Enjoy.
This waterfall was about twenty feet and split into a few tiny waterfalls. I bet they are really something in the spring. Water level is pretty low right now.
The weather was brisk, about 40 so we dug out our hats and gloves before we hiked. We also tried our new walking sticks for the first time and we both thought they were great and really helped. We bought them when we were in Bryson City two years ago!
This one was about 80 feet.
Maggie Valley
Magie Valley is a small cute little tourist town along a stream. Lots of nice little shops, we stopped for NC apples and hot apple cider. Here are more photos at google images.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=maggie+valley&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
I just got my new copy of Pinnacle Studio 12 and will see how the movies come out. I loaded it on my Vista laptop so I hope it will run a little faster. Loading them was faster. Wish me luck!
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