2014

It was all quiet after our New Year Eve celebrations with cannon at Cavender Creek Winery. However, the starting gun for the new winery season is Valentine’s Day weekend. On Sunday 16th, Three Sisters Winery celebrated with a chocolate and wine tasting in their tank room. The reserve chardonnay was remarkably good with an upmarket […]

Another week, another sort of weather. We were both feeling a bit wretched with heavy colds and coughs (Lisa picked up the bug somewhere and eventually passed it on to me). But, let’s not be negative – good things ARE happening.Driving through the countryside this week in temperatures reaching a balmy 16C, we were surprised

Punxsutawney Phil was rightYou may remember that last week, the groundhog turned meteorologist called Punxsutawney Phil predicted further bad winter weather before Spring arrives. Well, he was right, the snow came back to Georgia this week. More than just snow, there was an ice storm, caused when sleet and snow fall onto extremely cold ground

Sunday was Super Bowl day – the annual American Football championship game. Failure to watch this would probably put my Green Card in jeopardy. So we had a day in (not a hard decision given the wintery weather) to watch the spectacle. Within fifteen seconds, one team had scored a terrible own goal, and they

SNOWMAGEDDON – trapped in our own home by Mother NatureYou may have heard the news or even seen the pictures on TV – winter weather came to North Georgia this week in a very big way. It should not have been a surprise for anyone, the weather forecast had been promising this since the start

 Building Walls and Drilling Wells Work on framing the house slowed down a little this week. It’s all a matter of sequencing – It seems that due to sickness in South Carolina, the roof trusses are a little delayed. And they need to be installed before the roof can go on. Meanwhile, work at another

This week the focus has been on building rather than socialising, but that doesn’t mean we have been sitting at home by ourselves. We do have a regular visitor who comes to the bird feeders every evening – Rocky the Raccoon (why Rocky? Maybe because he rocks about alarmingly balancing on the balcony railing 20

Happy New Year – New building, cold weather and tornados This week, North America had some very fierce weather, with blizzards and twenty year low temperatures. On one night there was a frost in every state in USA (yes, that included Hawaii – but it was a freak incident up a mountain). Here in Dahlonega,