On The Blackwater

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Spending my life in 20-year increments: DC, Calif, Maine, & now in the BlueRidge Mountains of VA, where my YoChon, Sadie Mae, has started to blog...

Sunday, July 08, 2007

No "H" in Appalaccia!

What's funny is, if you Google the word misspelled, Google comes back with something like: It's a hard word to spell, we know.

Peaceful Sunday today. Church in the morning; our pastor was away, so we had a substitute, Marshall Banks, who came over from his Boone's Mill church. Marshall belonged to our church before he studied for the ministry, so we know his dear self. And what a passionate preacher he is! Just delightful. The passion is real, too, not at all put on.

Then a brief stop at Kroger's & when I got home and finally read the Sunday paper, there were all these coupons for things I had just brought home. Even the bread, for heaven's sake.

Dick drove me down our old side road to the river...me & Sadie Mae, that is. She is now attached to his side with Velcro. He's had loads of gravel trucked in as heretofore, he's only been able to go down there with his ATV. His plan is to finish the road, get the meadow cleared, then plant grass and put up a picnic table or two under the trees, and build a cinderblock grill right beside the Blackwater River. I'm so excited! We've talked about doing this for years, and now he's started the project.

2 Comments:

Blogger Amy Hanek said...

I vote that we have our picnic at your place also!

10:25 PM  
Blogger Marion said...

I don't think we'll finish the meadow project this summer, but you never can tell. Once the weather cools down (!) that will help.

about the raspberry wine: it's called "Beret" raspberry wine. One of the staff there said some of their wines are carried by Kroger, but I've never checked that out. And it is doubtful it would be the Beret, as that is in limited supply. It's a small bottle & was priced at $12.95.

Yes, the Villa was part of the Wine Down the Music Trail, but we got there fairly late, so most of the big crowds were about half a mile away, at the Floyd Fest grounds.

We had peace & quiet, wine & pizza, & cheese, etc. Lovely!!

4:05 PM  

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