Well, all the leaves are about off the trees now and the only green is the pine. We are able to see stuff that we didn't know was there. Could see a pond down the mountain from our back porch. It hasn't gotten above 50 today but warmer than yesterday. Yesterday it didn't go over 34 degrees. We worked on Jims stall and got the walls up on 2 sides, finished the one side today. Chuck had to finish putting the sawdust in the stall before we closed it in. We went to a mill and bought ruff cut lumber same as our house is built out of. The gal that built this house the Dad cut the trees from their property and took it to the mill to be made into lumber. Thus the rustic look. We will have to stain the wood in the Spring to match the house. Next big project is to redo the cement block building. It wasn't built very well and the roof shingles are in bad shape. We plan to put a green metal roof on it to match the house it will last so much longer than shingles. With the wind up here and the sun beating down on it in the summer and the cold weather and snow in the winter the shingle roofs don't last very long. Everyone up here has metal roofs.
We had a quiet Thanksgiving dinner this was a first being alone we have always had the kids and grandchildren over. And when Chuck was in the Navy we always invited single guys or gals over for dinner. We don't really know many people here as yet. Its really hard to cook for just 2 people now. We are hoping that Kristy and the girls will change their mind and spend Christmas here. We would have to go get them and bring them back though. And with gas being so high, it would be costly.
It won't be long and it will be time to decorate for Christmas. We will probably decorate next weekend. Hope to get some Christmas shopping done on the 7th when we go to Cookville. We only have the dollar store and walmart in Jamestown everything else is in Cookville. The malls are closer to Knoxville or Nashville and they are about a 2 hour drive for us. We do have a small outlet store in Crossville so will see what they have there when we go to Crossville on the 3rd.
Summer 2017
About Us
- Kitcat
- I'm Cathy, a 67 year old retired Navy wife. Spent 24 years as a Navy wife until my husband retired after 27 years of service. We traveled all over from Washington D.C., to Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Maartin, Martinique, Japan and Korea. We re-located to this beautiful state of TN from Central FL. We live in the mountains on 5 acres with our 10 cats (5 indoor). I'm Chuck, the Other Half of the equation. I'm a 68 y/o sailor at heart. While in the Navy I was a Cryptologic Tech (Intel type). My most memorable tours of duty were in Submarines (Scorpion, Skipjack, Triton & Ray), as Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Deputy Director National Security Agency (RADM C.F. Clark), and my last tour as Operations Chief at NSGA Homestead, Fl during Hurricane Andrew. It was a good time to retire. We have been looking for this home since 1965 and thank the good Lord that we're finally here.
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I am happy to say we are all done with all of our Christmas shopping. I just have to mail 2 boxes.
But we didn't get any decorations up this year, we usually put everything up the day after Thanksgiving. We had company and I didn't feel like digging through all the junk in the garage.
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