I got a nice mention in the Macon County News this week and I got our new curtain rod done and installed. Yesterday we rigged up the fabric.
And I got a nice order from a gallery in Asheville, The Appalachian Craft Center.
And we had visitors over Thanksgiving, had a great time and ate too much.
It [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 30, 2008
Weekend Update
November 24, 2008
Panthertown Valley
We hiked around part of Panthertown Valley yesterday. The weather was great, and we got some good pics. Click here to see them all.
November 22, 2008
Take a Ride Into the Past
Ry Cooder and the boys from the Old Crow Speed Shop take their bellytanker up to El Mirage dry lake for a few runs. Click Here for a beautiful slideshow.
November 22, 2008
Take a Ride Into the Future
Iowahawk presents the vehicle of tomorrow, the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition!
November 22, 2008
We Won
Despite some people’s (Islamic fundamentalists and Democrats) best efforts we won!
Happy Victory In Iraq Day!
November 20, 2008
Breaking News
From the front page of this weeks Sylva Herald and Ruralite:
Wiley Henson of Caney Fork, above, experimented this year with growing sweet potatoes in a 12-gallon bucket. He started with one orange and one white sweet potato, which yielded five plants – three white and two orange. He then planted all five in the same [...]
November 18, 2008
Eight Years Ago…
Howard Husock saw the writing on the wall.
The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act, a once-obscure and lightly enforced banking regulation law, into one of the most powerful mandates shaping American cities—and, as Senate Banking Committee chairman Phil Gramm memorably put it, a vast extortion scheme against the nation’s banks…
The CRA’s premise sounds [...]
November 13, 2008
In Country
Getty Images photographer John Moore spent some time recently in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, near the Pakistani border, with Viper Company of the 1-26 Infantry, and brought back these images, documenting what he saw. The final two photographs do not involve Korengal, but are striking examples of these difficult and complex times, and the sacrifice of [...]
November 12, 2008
Bacon Flavored Mayonnaise?
No way!
Yes way!
This in no way diminishes the fact that Sidemeat is still better than bacon.
November 10, 2008
Five Days at the End of the World
Hollywood writer Andrew Klavan visits Afghanistan:
Leftist movies portraying our troops as reprobates and fools may not make it to the wilds of Nuristan. But you can bet they make it to the headquarters of our enemies and give them encouragement, not to mention ideas. They make our soldiers’ mission harder and increase the danger to [...]
