Checking In

Its been ten days since my last blog. This settling in and living a bit less nomadically is slowing the blogging progress. We love our little RV park in the countryside outside Chapel Hill. It is so quiet and full of trees and squirrels. And I thought with all the squirrel recipes in the south that there would be a shortage of the fuzzy buggers. Even jet can’t seem to scare them away. I am still waiting for Jet to figure out that they climb trees. Right now he is just darned confused on how they disappear so fast.




We had the remnants of Ida in the form of a tropical storm land on us and it did a lot of road damage on the Outer Banks where we were supposed to be last week. We kept postponing and finally decided to drive over to Asheville, NC in the Smoky Mountains while the Outer Banks got back to normal.



Love this area of NC, with lots of forests and little logging towns. Asheville is a jewel of city in the mountains and overloaded with great art and people. It is 74 here today and sunny. Unheard of at this time of the year. Weather supposed to get back to normal soon. In the meantime we will enjoy the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the herd of elk that have recently been reintroduced here.



Meg leaves for Chile tomorrow so we won’t see her for a week when we get back to Chapel Hill. Looking forward to Thanksgiving, when Rusty’s folks join us. Will be nice to get to know them. There is another new addition to the family scheduled for early December. This time it is lab puppy David joining Meg and Rusty. Rufus joined Tate and Jeff early last summer so as far as grandpuppys go, we are doing really good. It seems like all of Meg’s friends here in Chapel Hill have little babies. She accuses me of being more gaga over babies right now then Suzy. Hard to believe, maybe I will get a puppy to get over the baby wanta be in me.