happy birthday MOM!

happy birthday to the most wonderful mother! i hope your day is fabulous and dad is wearing jorts!

also happy birthday to kate - my best friend from high school beth's & bill's baby! born today! wooo doggy!

beaver bone!

the dogs found a beaver-hewn log at the river.

hello beaver bone!

eli has beaver bone

pouncey wants beaver bone

pouncey stole beaver bone

pouncey loves beaver bone

the ancient and modern olympics

i made this poster in the 4th grade - 1986.

the basement flooded and the index card from the ancient olympics is missing.

the index card from the modern olympics contains some dated phrases:

  it was so important i used white-out to correct a lowercase "o" in olympics.

cherokee

 

the drive between cherokee and maggie valley is littered with awesome signs. 

it's as if time stopped in 1981.  

granny's restaurant - happy birthday angela - cherokee casino in background

cool valley motel (no pool)

"he plays that choctaw bingo every friday night, drinks that johnny walker at the club 69" - james mcmurtry

hemlock motel seems to have gone the way of many carolina hemlocks

all you can eat country vittles!

seriously back in time

sweet spot for a dish barn

starvin' marvin's - stop! and shop i need your money!

smallest house in the world? but room for a porch.

stompin ground for all your square dancing and clogging needs

abc store for all your grain alcohol needs

chainsaw bears, amish jams 

i bet the flapjacks are good here 

tarheel kountry kitchen - home of the BIG biscuit, biker wear

we were out there to go to sequoyah national golf course, which is a really wild place, and another story for another day.

somethings wrong with this dog's tongue

something's wrong with this dog's feet

nacho shake water

wnc debt law

is it possible for a bankruptcy lawyer's website to be welcoming, warm, and comforting? 

you decide!

check out WNCDebtLaw.com - law offices of kevin j. radey - asheville bankruptcy lawyer

now featuring new video! 

new video featuring some of my photos! 

folks in western north carolina who are struggling with your bills - pretty much everybody - this website is a place for you to get help.

optimistic thought

we're just spinning on some granite that we like to call a planet, and if you need to contemplate...

rotting watermelon fibonacci

if you cut a watermelon in half and leave it on the counter, this magical design will appear.  

also fruit flies will appear.

grove park inn ladies locker room

for all those intimidated by or scornful of the "grandeur" of the grove park inn, i present a photo of the entirety of the ladies' locker room furnishings. 

keepin it real!

i cannot tell a lie

 

this cherry tree branch was hanging too far over the deck.

fine howdy do

5 dog salute!

fly fishing

there are trout in the river.

kevin caught one a few weeks ago.

pouncey caught a piece of bark

eli smelled the flowers

drip dry pouncey

look! a trout

$10 bottles of wine!

homegrown restaurant on merrimon in asheville is great. the food is great. the folk art for sale on the wall is great. 

the greatest thing is monday is $10 bottle of wine day.

a glass of wine costs you $6, but on monday for $10 you can get the whole bottle. what a steal! 

you can walk away stuffed with 2 delicious dinners and a bottle of wine for under $30.

if you want the uptown girl painting, however, that will run you $25.

no more living in her white bread world.

peaceful doggy weekend

went to the asheville municipal golf course right after a thunderstorm. the cups were half full. nice place. 10$ to walk 9. back side much more varied than the front. packed. wait on every shot packed.

layers of paint and years of butts.

giant tree.

pouncey and nacho being snuggle heads.

teaching pouncey how to swim. here comes nacho!

you can do it little buddy!

retriever party!

we are dogsitting for 2 extra dogs the next week. 

that's 300+ lbs of retriever!

the more the merrier, says i. 

and says pouncey.

wheeee!