We will be spending Christmas Eve with our friends Juli and John, and Christmas Day at home And still no progress on the driveway that needs to be paved. Maybe there will be another “Only in Dahlonega” item one day to add to the growing collection. Come back next week and find out!
20th December 2015 – Christmas Eve with friends Read More »
After Christmas, we will be hosting another Open House, this time for our neighbours around Porter Springs Road. And there will certainly be no progress on the driveway this week – the asphalt plant is closed until the New Year. Maybe there will be another “Only in Dahlonega” item one day to add to the
27th December 2015 – Post Christmas Read More »
We will be spending Christmas Eve with our friends Juli and John, and Christmas Day at home And still no progress on the driveway that needs to be paved. Maybe there will be another “Only in Dahlonega” item one day to add to the growing collection. Come back next week and find out!
13th December 2015 – Party week at Hall Springs Cottage Read More »
With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas looming over the horizon, we have entered a favorite season in US tradition – shopping season. Last week, Friday was the big “Start of the Shopping Season” sales on the day after Thanksgiving (though very many shops were open for the start of the sales on Thanksgiving Day). Black
29th November 2015 – Drifting towards Christmas – and the tarmac season is slipping away Read More »
The long-planned NOA wine tasting event was drawing near. I had devised an interesting (and amusing) wine quiz as part of ythe entertainment. But on Tuesday afternoon, there was a dispiriting telephone call – it has all been cancelled due to the intervention of the City Hall bureaucrats, claiming that necessary permits had not been
15th November 2015 – A big disappointment, and a Town Hall meeting Read More »
It feels that it has been raining continuously for weeks, though the reality is not really as bleak as that. But the continuing precipitation and dampness has delayed our plans for converting the rough gravel track fron the house to Porter Springs Road into a proper tarmac driveway. Discussions with our shortlist of potentail contractors
8th November 2015 – Will this rain ever stop? Read More »
We can tell that Daylight Saving Time is gone – it is dark at both ends of the day, even taking into account the changing of the clocks. We had an extra hour of bed on Sunday morning following the Halloween festivities at the old Lydia School. It’s a reflection on technology that we felt
1st November 2015 – Summer Time and Summer are over Read More »
The weather is expected to be wetter – I hope it does not wash out the neighbourhood Halloween festivities at the old Lydia School this week. And Lisa will be having her second cataract operation. Maybe we can combine both events. Lisa now has protective shields for both eyes intended to protect the post-operation eye
25th October 2015 – Eye Op 2 and Halloween Read More »
The weather will be colder, and Lisa will no doubt be getting to grips with her vision (carefully not bending over). TJ and his crew are coming back to finish off their landscaping work and to extend the parking space at the front of the house. And maybe we will find time to do other
18th October 2015 – One eyed Lisa Read More »
Balancing the chemistry of the pool contents has turned out to be more of a problem than anticipated. Whether it was the quality of the water out of our well (we did not think so), the result of the huge rainfall since filling the pool or some other factor, the colour of the water remained
11th October 2015 – Swimming at last – with problems Read More »
