Tickets

We're a little bit sorry if you had to wait a long time for your breakfast on New Year's Day. (Only a little bit because Dreams Die Hard is not a real restaurant, and it is a holiday after all; we hope you were having fun.) 

But, in our defense, these are the tickets that were waiting to go to the cooks at 10 AM--with two hours left and people streaming in. 

Evan makes the waffles (56 this year!) and keeps the tickets in order so--we hope--people get their breakfast in more or less the right order.

We're not sure how we ended up with three people who waited a really long time and hadn't gotten any food by 12:30 when we thought we had filled all the orders and were done. But we appreciate how nice you were about it and hope you enjoyed the waffles. 

It was definitely the biggest diner ever--over 200 served. Happy New Year!

Generations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julian teaching Ruby the finer points of the bagel schmear at the Dreams Die Hard Diner.

What Remains

This is what's left of the Blue Rock Road bridge across the South Toe. It's easier to understand what you are seeing if you are on a screen bigger than a phone and you click the picture to make it bigger.

Happening now (more or less everywhere)

 Creek bank restoration and road repair on Grindstaff Road.

Burn! (carefully)

We got to watch part of a prescribed burn up on Murphy Branch Road yesterday. It was pretty interesting. Here's a good explanation of why someone might want to set fire--carefully, under controlled conditions--to their own property. 

 

Awww...

Jada took this picture of me at the food co-op sometime this summer because she thought it was funny that I was using an Ingles bag at TTT. 

I am posting it now, not because of the goofball with the rice cakes and the boonie hat, but because look at what a sweet little place it was. Everything was so homey and tidy and tucked in. 

Look at all this great stuff! Kombu! Nori! Soba noodles! Fish sauce! Coconut milk! Gretchen's hot sauce! Jam! Sardines! Kippers!! 

And that's just a fraction of what was there.

An Excellent Crew

Jesse has been organizing river cleanup crews on Sundays. She put out a call for a big group to start removing debris from the Weibe family's farm near Toe River Campground, and more than fifty people showed up at the old co-op site and carpooled over to the farm. 

It probably didn't hurt that Thrive Appalachia announced that they would be arriving with tacos and tres leches cake. 

 

 

The job involved a lot of this

 

and a lot of this.

The overall situation is certainly daunting. But it was a beautiful afternoon, it was great to be outside with a big group of neighbors, and the stuff we picked up needed to be picked up. We do what we can.

Also tacos.