Blue Fish says 'Welcome'

How to find stuff in the kitchen

Here is a pictorial guide to the kitchen: where the stuff is hidden, all secrets revealed! These pictures were taken before we installed drawers in place of the door cabinets, but the arrangement of contents is pretty much the same.

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Dining at the Lake Rabun Hotel and the Blue Fish Lodge

George, Bill and Shirley, at the Lake Rabun Hotel.
We had to share our little nook with 'Daydreamer,'
a brown bear available (still) for a cool $3200.

This was our second dinner at the Lake Rabun Hotel. It's very nice. Every Thursday, they put on a Featured Farm menu, with food from one of the local farms. A couple of weeks ago, we ate with Ann from a menu using Mill Gap Farm in Tiger; next week, they'll be featuring our community garden on their Thursday menu.

George, Bill and Shirley, plating up at the
Blue Fish Lodge's boathouse dining room.

Art Over Burton

We joined John and Jan for a round of Moscow Mules, then went to the Art Over Burton auction event, to benefit the Hambidge Center in Dillard. It was held at the Lake Burton Club's Lodge, which has a spectacular view over the lake, and the surrounding mountains. 

Marlene from the Burton Gallery put a number of works up for auction, as did the Hambidge Center itself. We brought home Georgia's Christmas present for 2012 (surprise, surprise!), and one of Jan's works, as well.

Moscow Mules, anyone? John, George and Jan.

Tallulah River and Tate City

Taylor and I took a ride up the Tallulah River Road (FS-70), past Tate City and into North Carolina, to a Nantahala Wilderness Area trailhead. We were looking for Flat Branch Falls, along the Tallulah, but had no luck finding the trail. Still, we enjoyed a nice Saturday drive.

Budding rhododendrons

Shopping opportunities at the Tate City Mall

Detail from photo above: TATE CITY MALL. Apparently, they sell
cast iron frying pans, horseshoes, shovels and farm implements.

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Two hundred thirty-six years ago today:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Andrew, Hillary, Ann & Beau'gard (sitting), Susan, George, Robert,
exercising their unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Andrew, Hillary and the Stars and Stripes