2014

It’s been a quiet week around Dahlonega. We have a continuing worry about the immense tree behind the rental house. If you’ve been following my blog, you will have read of the crash in the night three weeks ago when a 70 foot tree limb dropped a few feet from the house. We alerted the […]

It’s been a quiet week around Dahlonega. Apart from cicadas in the night (see below). On Sunday we went out to Cavender Creek Winery, and had a chat with the owner about the sale of the Montaluce Estate. This is a large property development a few miles East of Dahlonega which has dramatically failed to

At a crossroads digging trenches in the back, and Independence Day It’s been a busy day around Dahlonega. On Sunday we went out to explore an hour or so to the North East, very close to the South Carolina border. There are a few wineries around the area, so we called in on two of

On a still Monday evening, we were startled by a loud bang and all the house windows shook. No, it was not a bomb, it was a tree. Less than 10 meters from the house is a huge native Georgia pine. At the base it is about 2 metres diameter, and at ten metres from

It’s now officially Summer in USA. The solstice on 21st June was not marked by young maidens with garlands of wild flowers in their hair, but there was a barbeque hosted by our neighbor Tom Vincent. Several other neighbours turned up, and there was much talk about the wilder times “back in the days” in

The weather has turned from spring to early summer here. The temperatures are climbing, and in the coming week over 30C will be common. Humidity is all going up too. The result of this shift is “pop-up storms”. There generally occur in the afternoon, and cause short but heavy rainstorms. An inch in half an

 On Sunday, we took advantage of the fine weather to go out to Three Sisters Winery for the first weekend of the Georgia Wine Country Festival . This runs every weekend through June, and on offer are wine tastings, typical Georgia barbeque fare and live music. This was the pre-opening dry run, so the visiting wineries offering

America was busy celebrating Memorial Day this week. Everyone seemed to be off to the beach or the mountains (especially as many schools have now closed for the summer vacation), or follow up on the vast number of advertisements for Memorial Day sales and bargains to be had. We don’t need to go far for

Once again, the week has been dominated by the build. Lisa’s work in sourcing all the bits and pieces needed for the house from the Internet is coming to a head – boxes and more boxes arriving at the rental house. The sitting room is rapidly turning into a builders merchant with door handles, lamp

Last weekend we were in Atlanta for a wedding (Karen’s son Adam). We stayed in a hotel near to Piedmont Park (using up some of the points we had built up on our travels last year). Fortunately, the threatened thunderstorms on Saturday did not materialise, and all went off well. We spent Saturday night with