With yet another forecast calling for copious amounts of snow, Boone weather is steadily doing its best to test our ability to endure a true winter. It has caught many of the blue ridge mountain residents completely off guard, too, because it doesn’t typically start this early. People are scrambling to get preparations […]

  Yesterday, here in Boone NC, we had our first substantial snow of the winter season. When I say substantial, I mean a few inches, but it did snow all day long and throughout the evening. I managed to tear myself away from my movie marathon to take a walk along the Greenway Trail near […]

It was evident that the hardworking folks putting this shindig together learned quite a bit since last years festival because this one ended up being bigger and better in many ways. As diligent as the staffers were, there were some things, though, that they just didn’t have any control over, and that was the not […]

Recently, Cody and I attended a meeting with PACT, a local chapter of the NC Wildlife Federation. The weekend following our first meeting was met with an opportunity to help build bluebird houses for a project that an ASU professor is conducting. The boxes will be placed in various locations so that she may gather […]

Normally, I am not one for festivals, but Music on the Mountain was different.For starters, it was just a one-day event instead of the usual two or three day events which have become so popular. It took place at the old fairgrounds here in Boone, NC, and they started it with the intention of raising […]

On Friday, I took some time before my Acupuncture appointment to head over to the Jones House to check out an exhibit called “Untitled” that I read about in the newspaper. Normally, the hours don’t coincide with my work schedule so, had I not taken Friday off, I wouldn’t have been able to go – […]