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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and fun New Years Eve and I hope 2017 will be the best year yet! Happy New Year!

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My She She’d aka The Crafty Cottage!

Happenings at the farm!

Until???

Meet Athena

Celebrate!

The walk thru

The trees are down!

And the trees came down

Looks good!

The GarGe is showing progress

The garage is coming along!

The walls are going up!

A good view of the garage in progress

It is starting to look like a garage

The alley!

A new entrance

It is looking like a garage!

The windows are in!

It has be begun!

A new cooler!

A good effort

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Creating sunlight!

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A successful project

Entrance to Quail Way!

We have surround sound again!

We also have outside speakers too!

Please vote on which sign looks better

Simply say left sign or right sign.

Love the new fridge!

The hole is ready to be filled!

Mailbox decor

The deck after it was shoveled

First couple days of snow

Looking good!

Parrottsville Harvest Festival 2017

Fall colors

Fall colors around the farm!

My Autunm vase

The tin project

The relish was GOOD!

Making dill pickle relish

Putting dirt in its place!

Things are happening at the farm!

A much better harvest!

A bountiful harvest

4th of July Candle jars

Just some things that happened over the past few days!

Added mulch

Old Mill Square

Some great views from the top!

The worker bees!

The cows should not return now!

A beautiful night

A fun time

L to R: George, Lisa, Ann, Russ, Tim & me

An organized Crafty Cottage

Rory and her flower kit.

Saw the puppies last night!

9 in all. 7 boys 2 girls

The new mailbox!

The first snow of 2017!

Rime ice from frozen fog

Welcome Winter!

Our outdoor Christmas lights!

Salter By Jen

The barn quilt

Creating a barn quilt

Love my Cubbies!

Go Cubs Go!

The ARts & Craftsman Community

Cades Cove part 1

Yay Chicago Cubbies!!!

Great Friends and Trever!

The Fall colors around the farm

My Rory can make anyone's day brighter!

Gammie and Bumpa love you Rory!

Making a barn quilt

The tool shed is complete!

The pickle queens are taking a break!

It is coming along

The shed is coming along.

Just a little bit of grape jelly!

The Tinsley-Bible Drug Store

A bountiful harvest!

Another good harvest!

Yummy!

B&B pickles and Pasta Sauce!

The deer one our driveway

A nice harvest

We had fun!

Peaches and Pickles

6 half pints of peach jam and 9 quarts of bread & butter pickles.

Yummy!

B&B pickles and pasta sauce

Our productive day!

A nice harvest

A nice harvest!

The Pickle Queens

The barn has been raised!

Raising a neighbor's barn

Jenny, this picture is for you!

Watermelon fun!

The Harvest

12 quarts and 8 pints of dill pickles!

Also Welcome George!

Pickling time again!

A fun night of baseball!

Taste testing is tasty!

Got to love pickles!

Yummy stuff from the garden!

Yummy!

These veggies look good!

Our first harvest!

The crops are growing!

The New Air Conditioner

It was a nice day!

Moving in...For a Good!

Back at the farm!

A bigger picture of the new deck

The trees are no longer a threat!

Rory and I at our Easter breakfast.

Some Easter egg fun!

Gamma and Rory!

At Rory's School's Easter egg hunt

Rory and I in front of Jenny and Nate's new house.

Love this little girl!

Our Rory

A Hawaii Native

The addition, it looks great!

The new addition

A very cool welcoming home view this morning!

I t looks like a backdrop to the movie "Gone With The Wind"

The Newlee Iron Furnace

Cumberland Gap

This is our hill! It looks like a ski run.

Picture courtesy of Lisa

More of Cumberland Gap

The Carson Rose Gulf Station

A cute distraction!

The completed golf cart shelter

It looks great!

The new golf cart shelter is coming along.

Interior of the Little Cabin

This is just a dusting?

All in the Same Day

The afternoon view!

If this looks cold...it is!

This was just the beginning!

Beautiful views!

Too bad it was a little hazy.

Beautiful!

We got snow!

8 to 9 inches

We got some snow!

The new bench!

I love it!

Christmas With Rory!

The Jingle Jam

Playing with Rory

This is the Smokies!

This is why it is called the Smokey mountains!

The Crafty Cottage and Mail box even got decorated.

Let the decorating begin!

Sights of Gatlinburg

Another look at the snow on the peaks.

ATV fun!

Our view! I will never get tired of it!

A beautiful day at the beach!

Cafe Panini in Carlsbad

Carving the pumpkins!

What a beautiful picture!

All the Witches!

Rory is ready for her first fall festival!

My Mom

She loved life!

Rory playing with Shadow.

My Mom, Gloria Winship

I love and miss you Mom!

My Mom and I last Mother's Day

Tim and Rory going for a walk while the dogs follow.

The puppies are together again with Jenny, Nate and Rory!

Carrie and Daniel

Tim, Larry and Linda at lunch.

The new cart pad

My lunch buddies!

My little princess

Back together with my little Princess!

My little princess!

The diet coke she is holding is mine!

Aunt Carrie and Rory

A view from the overlook at Douglas Dam

The area looks great around the sign!

Our view at lunch

We have not changed a bit in 32 years!

Hahahahahahahaha!

Creating the signs.

Putting up the signs

Our garden dinner

Sliced beets, green beans, Mashed beets and butternut squash

A beautiful rainbow last night

The dogs are doing great!

The new sign!

One happy family!

L to R Ace, Lily, Shadow & RoxIe

Fence lights - Day and Night

The completed fence along our driveway.

The new fence around the cul-de-sac

Another look at the fences

More produce from the farm!

The deck and umbrella

The tomatoes

Here we go!

Some views of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park

A beautiful view in Cades Cove

The cucumbers are ready to be pickled

The cucumbers in spears

The brine is in the jars

Watermelon, pumpkins, cantaloupe,kiwi and sqashes are coming along!

Tim working on the roof!

nice view too!

The harvest

Check out the latest harvest!

A great lunch with great friends!

The garage roof is done!

Nice job George and Tim!

The Cannonball Tree

A fun day!

Happy 1st Birthday Rory!

We are together again!

Nate took the picture!

Our Rory!

A happy Mom

The Cacophony Tree

Hey George, here it is!

Tim and George cutting the grass

A.J and Sallie Bush's home

Now used as a guesthouse and meeting place

Entrance to the plant

What a great experience

What a view

Shadow found a snow drift

We had a great day!

Tim, Me, Lisa & George

A view from the deck

Spending some time with Jay and Duke

Bush''s Secret Family Recipe

The farm tools and small building that line Quail Way

The log cabin on top of a hill

Our new view above the RV

A view of the deck from the front yard

The deck is completed and it looks great!

Great job Tim!

The steps are almost done

The deck is really coming along.

Thanks Tim!

Building the deck has begun.

The workbench!

The snow has begun to melt!

We Got Snow

5 1/2 inches!

Just some views around the farm.

A surprise snow storm!

A view from the RV once when it quit snowing.

Another snow storm

Making a driveway!

George digging away!

Tim on the Steiner

Our new entrance to our driveway!

Our address is even on the tree - look closely.

Is it an antenna or a ray gun?

Teamwork at creating paths

Tim working on the path

George's new toy

A Tree near the farm

Lisa asked me to take the picture since she was driving.

My Christmas Cutie!

Tim working on the path/driveway

George working on his new driveway

The first sunrise of 2015!

Anyone want to go for a ride?

Another look

The cart is really shaping up thanks to Tim!

The dump bed

Another shot of the dump bed.

The frame after Tim painted it.

The frame before paint

The rest of the cart, in pieces

It may not look like it but the gables really took some work to get ready and put up!

Glad that part is over with!

Lisa helping Tim

Some of the bags of nuts and bolts used for the assembly of the shed

The shed, in parts!

Progress is being made

The hill that has been dug out.

Our storage shed

The Crafty Cottage Is Finished!

The loft area, it looks so good!

All ready for the new paint color

Insulation is Complete!

Another wall

Tim working on the electrical box

Ceiling Fan wiring

Tim working on securing the panel.

Yeah, I like power tools!

The ceiling is done!

The craft cabin

Before we started cleaning out the cabin

The wall materials

Our wood supply covered to protect it from the weather

The cabin is all cleaned out!

The lines I painted show just how un level the ground is!

My reach over my head is about 80 inches.

I am painting...and stretching!

It's looking good!

I like the color!

Front and side view

The cabin with the trim...I like it!

Tim painting the final coat.

Tim selecting the trim pieces.

The front porch is done!

The trim painting begins!

Yes there are four 2"x6" boards under the one ladder leg.

The front soffit

The soffits are getting painted!

Who knew that one little leg would make all the difference!

Having the right ladder really does make a difference!

The cieling insulation is done!

The level ladders, sort of!

First piece in

The painting is complete!

Yeah, half the ceiling is complete.

The soffits are done!

Recycled packing material

The ceiling material

My little Gator Girl, Rory!

Tim, up at the RV, enjoying the evening view

We are together again! Yay!

L- R Me, Carrie and Tim

Our evening view!

Our view in the morning!

The Storm came rolling in!

Picture courtesy of Lisa Francisco

Solar power!

Planting and mulching

Planting Time for plants

Travel day for some!

The gate that will lead into the fenced area.

At the farm!

The Natural Bridge and the roadway above it.

Our new car port

This is the winner!

Snow- from beginning until this morning.

Now the hole is ready!

Just a dusting!

The Christmas fence!

Over night snow

The generator is ready!

Love and miss our Shadow!

Se you soon buddy!

My Cubbies - NLDS!

Happy Birthday Shadow!!!

More improvements!

Pinefest

A fun evening with good friends and a nice view!

The fence is ready for Fall.

The solar eclipse 2017

Notice how muted the color are at totality.

A nice evening!

Zucchini Relish

The garage floor

The area is ready for cement and the zucchini lasagna

Making space

Sunflowers everywhere

The current harvest

Yesterday's harvest

The pickle queens are back!

Our DIY table decor

The first big harvest

Our Patriotic fence

Ober Gatlinburg

The Irises at the farm

Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park

It just looks like dirt now but...

...in a few weeks we will be eating from what grows in that dirt!

Our new Dodge Journey

Another fun night!

They are getting bigger!

My Rory ❤️

Harley and her 7 puppies

Our ski slope and driveway...well part of it!

Protection for the slide

What a great day

Love my sister!

The Crafty Cottage barn quilt

The Cubbies Celebrated!

just having fun!

Cades Cove part 2

The Apple Barn

Some barn quilts in Greene County

Great time with good friends in Gatlinburg

Some Fall decor around the farm!

The digging begins!

The Farmer's Daughter

The tool shed looks great!

The shed is coming along!

The addition to the tool shed has begun!

Historic Downtown Dandridgr, TN

Smaller harvest but just as good!

Too cuties but still thieves!

Picture courtesy of George Francisco, owner and proprietor of the farm and sometimes a guest contributor.

From garden to winter food stock!

A fun day in Abingdon, VA

More tomato fun!

Yum, watermelon and cantaloupe

Making grape jelly!

Cute but a thief!

It is on Raccoons!

You have been warned!

35 jars of pickles!

The new additions to the barn

Another bumper harvest!

The TWRA sunflower fields

Pickling fun again!

A Fun Night!

A fun day!

Our visitor

Our harvest

Happy 4th!

Working with squash

We did it! Phew!

Another good harvest!

We made dill pickles

The pickling process!

Our second harvest

And the squashed that mooned us!

The new shelves

Our Birthday Girl!

A pine tree in a knot!

It is pretty at the farm.

The deck is done and looks great!

Thanks Tim!!!

Oh how I love this little girl!

Rory in her Easter dress hunting eggs.

A day of Rory!

I will gladly do it anytime!

The deck is coming along and looking good,

My Rory!

The deck is looking good!

The bench looks great!

Veteran's Overlook

The entance

The town of Cumberland Gap

The Little Cabin on Wheels

In 1930 you could get 5 gallons of gas for $1.00

The tire pressure, oil and radiator were checked and the windshield washed.

Just a bit of fog!

Maple Leaf Barn Quilt

Rocky Top Farm View

We woke up to this...surprise!!!

All in the Same Day

The morning view!

Eastern Foothill Parkway

Nice!

Tim and his home made light saber!

Who says icicles can't be fun?

We got 4 inches

It s still snowing.

Rory Loves Shadow!

We are ready to head south!

It snowed!

The fence!

I love it when houses are decorated with Christmas lights!

I think we are ready!

The decorations are completed!

The decorating is almost done!

One of our favorite places in Gatlinburg

Snow peak mountains of North Carolina

A nice day for a walk on the beach!

Family fun in honor of Mom!

A sunset stroll at the beach in Carlsbad

A fun Halloween!

Fun at the Witches Party!

Some more Halloween fun!

Our boy Shadow

We love you!

My Mom; she loved life!

Craig playing at his gig!

Rory eating one of the pears she picked all bu herself.

Carrie, Tim and Daniel

A bumper harvest!

My Rory!

Love my Rory!

The Rory selfies!

Fun times with Rory!

Douglas Dam

Lisa, George and Tim watching a fisherman reel in a fish.

A bountiful harvest

Laurel Falls Hike

What a great way to crlebrate our anniversary.

The sign!

the secret is out!

Preparing the land for the sign.

Some of the crops we harvested yesterday!

beets, carrots, green beans, green peppers and tomatoes.

Wow!

It looks great!

Meet Ace and Lily

L to R Lily, Ace

A close up of a fence light and the address plate.

We did some more canning!

The fences part two

The deck is complete!

A fun night

Picture courtesy of Linda!

The finished project

Some of the historical buildings of Cades Cove

More historical buildings

The finished product!

YUM!

The ingredients for making dill pickles

Finishing the process

The garage attic is looking pretty good!

The newly sealed roof

Six years of July 4th celebrations!

The crops are coming along!

The deck's upgrade!

The garage roof is almost done!

The new screen door!

A new/old addition

We have had a great time!

Where new Dillon meets old Dillon on Dillon Lake.

Another view

Go Blackhawks!

The blues of Waikiki

Rory and her new ride!

we make a good mother/daughter team!

The Bird Sanctuary

From start to finish

After a lazy day we had a fun night!

This is at the farm

George and Lisa's labor should bring a good harvest.

The new driveway

For the Golf Cart

Bush's Baked Beans Plant

The Bush products through out the years

The view on the way to the top

Heading up the trial

We are at the top

Another view from the top

Bush's Visitor Center

That is one big can of beans

The leaning barn

The larger barn

Shadow likes the deck!

The deck is almost done!

Tim beginning putting the deck boards on

Tim working on the deck

The workbench all ready in use.

The explorers

Max Patch

The view is worth the drive!

Our morning view on 3/15

We saw a few of these due to snow melting.

A nice view in North Carolina

The Grand Ole Opry

We made it!

Lisa, George, Tim and Me

Intermission at the Grand Ole Opry

Yes, we are enjoying the show!

Shadow meets a cow

Pictures courtesy of George Francisco

Getting acquainted

Finishing up their visit

A nice snowy view!

Ole Smokey Moonshine

One final display

Nice view!

This was after tasting the white lightnin'

Picture courtesy of Lisa

The downtown lights

Our Christmas Baby!

Tim driving the golf cart!

The golf cart is looking good

The golf cart is coming along!

The battery boxes

The golf cart is coming along

The new rear tires and diamond plating

Floorboards are installed

Tim's project - the Golf Cart

The storage shed is complete!

the October Project is done!

The shed after a long day of work! Not bad so far!

The race is on; the guys vs. me!

Guess who won?

Tim, George and me putting up a support rail

Picture courtesy of Lisa

Here we go! The shed begins!

The base floor and frame are complete!

Insulating the floor

The furniture in the cottage

It looks great!

Love the color!

The name of the cottage is?

The interior is completed

First boards down

The beginning interior of the Crafty Cottage

The first panel is up!

Foam down

Window and Ceiling trim

My little cottage!

I love how it looks!

The walls and ceiling looks great!

Tim added the tongue and groove to the front of the loft, nice!

The lighter color on the walls really brighten up the inside.

My Crafty Cottage aka my craft room!

The walls under the loft

The desk, with the stamp set,ribbon and punch storage areas

The workbench

The Shell of the cottage

The finished Crafty Cottage!

Yay, the floor is done!

Flooring for the Crafty Cottage

Wall trim which will be covred with paint

Trim in loft and around the door

The walls are up!

We are going to put tongue and groove on the area over the loft area.

The paneling

To paint or not to paint? Opinions appreciated!

The back walls of the cottage under the loft.

The ceiling fan looks great!

Thanks Tim!

The side of the cabin

Wiring to code

Working on wiring for electricity

The ceiling is done!

Tim working on his own!

The trim is up!

The gable over the loft

Tim is starting with first piece!

Tim is ready to go!

Tim is busy finishing up the insulation

The cabin before we painted!

The beginning of the Crafty Cottage

Our first visitors at the farm

Daniel and Carrie

A cool view in the morning!

Rory, rooting on her teams!

Beautiful!

Another view

The evening view!

Our new home!

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Happy New Year!

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Roxie’s Bark Park

Creating a Bark Park!

The LCOW goes solar

Preparing the garden beds

Looking good!

Creating sunlight!

The new car port!

A successful project

Entrance to Quail Way!

We have surround sound again!

Please vote on which sign looks better

Love the new fridge!

The hole is ready to be filled!

Mailbox decor

The deck after it was shoveled

First couple days of snow

Looking good!

Parrottsville Harvest Festival 2017

Fall colors

Fall colors around the farm!

My Autunm vase

The tin project

The relish was GOOD!

Making dill pickle relish

Putting dirt in its place!

Things are happening at the farm!

A much better harvest!

A bountiful harvest

4th of July Candle jars

Just some things that happened over the past few days!

Added mulch

Old Mill Square

Some great views from the top!

The worker bees!

The cows should not return now!

A beautiful night

A fun time

An organized Crafty Cottage

Rory and her flower kit.

Saw the puppies last night!

The new mailbox!

The first snow of 2017!

Rime ice from frozen fog

Our outdoor Christmas lights!

Salter By Jen

The barn quilt

Creating a barn quilt

Love my Cubbies!

Go Cubs Go!

The ARts & Craftsman Community

Cades Cove part 1

Yay Chicago Cubbies!!!

Great Friends and Trever!

The Fall colors around the farm

My Rory can make anyone's day brighter!

Making a barn quilt

The tool shed is complete!

The pickle queens are taking a break!

It is coming along

The shed is coming along.

Just a little bit of grape jelly!

The Tinsley-Bible Drug Store

A bountiful harvest!

Another good harvest!

Yummy!

The deer one our driveway

A nice harvest

We had fun!

Peaches and Pickles

Yummy!

Our productive day!

A nice harvest

A nice harvest!

The Pickle Queens

The barn has been raised!