Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains

  Hello Friends, I wasn’t in the mood to blog until I got an email from my beloved husband who is only 20 feet away from me. You see while I was drinking cold coffee in rainy, tornado laden weather  on my way to Dunwoody to pick up my new SUPRA key, Dan was home with [...]

Heed My Warning – Don’t Touch! Have you ever done something, gone through a process, or committed to a course of action and then been smacked in the face with the cold hard truth that maybe your way of doing something was not the best way to do it? And to add insult to injury, something [...]

I recently wrote a blog article regarding our water supply in the Big Canoe community of North Georgia.  The article goes into more detail, but the gist of the story is that good and proactive management of natural resources is a big part of the equation involved in ensuring that demand does not exceed supply [...]

We enjoyed the lunar eclipse last night from our front yard here in the North Georgia mountain community of Big Canoe.  There were some fast moving wispy clouds that occasionally interfered with our view of the moon, but overall it was an excellent show.  Not as exciting as the Geminid meteor shower back in late [...]

Yes, the title is truly an overly dramatic paraphrase from a letter that Ben Franklin wrote to his daughter in the late 1700′s regarding the wild turkeys of America.  In consideration of the holiday season and its commonplace culinary centerpiece, the roasted turkey, I felt this was an appropriate subject, although Ben Franklin might have disagreed.  Wild turkeys [...]