Isak's New Rig

 

Isak Pertee, proprietor of the highly-recommended High Lonesome Timber tree service just got a new, super-cool rig. It drives around on tracks, can definitely go places where you wouldn't be able to put a bucket truck, and it extends way up there.

Polka Dot Ice

 

Miika found the elusive polka-dotted ice below the foot bridge on the way to Ballew Fields.

Reporting from Spruce Pine

 

Happy Holidays!

Reporting from the Parkway

 Last week's trip to the Clingman's Peak rainwater collection site involved some spectacular above-the-clouds action.

Really?

I know some people will pay to have their house washed, but can you actually make money cleaning dryer vents? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jen and Chad spotted this one--what does it mean?

More Jacks, More Lanterns

 

Once again, Philip and Beca Mitchell and their friends brought Halloween fun to the whole neighborhood by creating 105 Jack-O-Lanterns and putting them on the bridge. It's so much fun to be outside with a crowd of people, enjoying the evening and admiring the ingenuity of the pumpkin carvers. Here's a sample. 

Cats were big this year.

 

Gotta have a Pi pumpkin.

 

Hamilton! My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there's a million things I haven't done, but at least I've been immortalized on a pumpkin.

 

Cat toast?

 

Zonked!

 

More zonked!

 

Boo!

Goodbye, Dear Ron

 

Thanks to the Rolett family for the beautiful memorial event for our great neighbor Ron Rolett. Miika arranged for it to be at the Riding Center, which seemed like the perfect place. 

A series of Ron's friends and family talked about his extraordinary kindness and concern for others, his career in public health, and his love of a good story. 

I was slightly disappointed, however, that the Order of the Palmetto was not mentioned.