Pawpaw Holler Home

Dear readers, I apologize for being silent for so long -I’ve been trying to get back online for the last month, but it’s been one thing after another.

Regular updates will resume tomorrow.

Blessings,

Denese

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum 1:7

Having technical difficulties this weekend.

Just wanted to let you all know that I’m having Internet connection problems due to all the rain we’ve had. It’s either been extremely slow (7,000 bps) or I can’t connect at all – I haven’t even been able to get my mail.

I’ll be back later today, hopefully, when the lines dry out some.

Blessings,

Denese

Hi everybody, I’m back! Thanks for missin’ me. I hope everyone has been doing well.

I hadn’t meant to be offline so long, but…well here’s what happened:

The Injury

On Friday the 17th, my husband, Lacy, was operating the bobcat at work and dumped a load of rocks in his lap. Most of the rocks hit his knees and shins but nothing was broken. He is bruised up pretty good and could barely walk the first couple of days after it happened.

Thank the good Lord the rocks weren’t any bigger (grapefruit size) and he was the one operating -he’s a pretty stout feller and quick thinking. If this had happened to any one else, they might’ve been hurt a lot worse.  So…Lacy was out of commission for a while.

He’s better now, but his knees are still extremely sore and he’s trying to take it easy at work…which isn’t easy!

The Property Damage

First, for those of you that don’t know, a little background on where we live:

Our place is a mile from the road, inside of approximately 120 acres bordering the National Park. There are six houses up here, but we are the only people who live here -the other houses are nightly rentals. The roads in our small community are gravel roads and we, the property owners, keep them maintained. We also have a gate at the entrance which was recently upgraded to electric -it took us a long time to get it and it wasn’t cheap.

On Sunday the 19th, Lacy went out early for a newspaper. He got down the road and noticed one of the nightly rentals had eight vehicles parked at it, not a good sign. He drove on out and, surprise, surprise…our new electric gate was standing wide open! The gate opener was pulled apart and the brackets, which were welded on, were broken off the gate.

Apparently the renters lied to the rental agency, it was supposed to have been a family renting the house but they had a big party instead. At 10:30, the previous night, one of the other renters noticed nine cars at the house and one at the gate. When the rental agent arrived on Sunday, four vehicles were still at the house…and fourteen young men and women were still there. I won’t go into details.

We spent that Sunday making a police report and a lot of phone calls. Last week was spent fixing the gate (in between storms), changing codes and notifying property owners.

Again, we thank the Lord…nobody was hurt and nobody’s house was broken into.

(In case you’re wondering why we didn’t hear anything; we live too far back –we can’t even hear “road noise” unless the wind is just right.)

Everything Else

While all that was going on;

• We had fruit trees to be plant before the storms moved in that Sunday
• We had taters to plant before the moon changed last Friday
• I spent two whole days bleaching the logs in our add-on
• Our washer tore up
• My internet speed slowed down to 25,000 bps

I was overwhelmed! When my internet connection slowed way down, I figured maybe God was trying to tell me something…everything happens for a reason.

Things have mostly settled down around here and everything is taken care of -except my washer. Hopefully, it will be fixed this week.

Now I might be able to catch up on all of my online stuff.

More updates later…

Blessings,

Denese

Back online, update coming up…it’s a long story.

We’ve had too much excitement around here the last few days…an injury and some property damage, among other things. 

I’ll be back in a day or two.

Homeschoolers -don’t forget to download your freebie every day from Homeschool Freebie of the Day  -click on the orange fish on the left sidebar.

Denese

I have dial-up internet and it’s very slow but over the last couple of weeks it has been running extra slow most of the time – 23,000 bps! As a result of that I have been unable to get a lot of things done:

• I’m behind on my e-mail. If I haven’t e-mailed you back yet, I’m going up the list and I’ll get to you!
• I’m behind on updating links. I have a few links here on my site that need to be updated…I haven’t forgotten!
• My blogroll. I will be putting the blogroll back up, I’m trying to find a WordPress plug-in I like, one that I can put several feed widgets to my sidebars according to category. I’d also like a page of my feeds, like in Blogger’s dashboard. If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know.
• Sidebars. I really like how Penny Raine has her sidebars organized in sections. I’d like to do mine that way, it’s eaier to see what the site is all about and find what you need.
• More content. I have tons of free resource links I need to add, especially old-time radio links.
• Visiting on-line friends. I’ve been catching up on that today, boy I’ve missed alot!

Just wanted to let you all know.

Denese

Looking for a favicon for your website? I’ve added some cross favicons here:

Free Graphics

Right click,  save to your computer and rename file to "favicon.ico".

Please, these are free for personal use only, you may use them or give them away but not sell them. Thank you.

For more information on favicons, see this post:

Favicons and Logos

Denese

Another sunny morning, but it sure is cold! It’s supposed to get colder and snowy starting tonight, so we are making today our library day…for both of them!

It wasn’t easy, but I found a couple pictures of my husband. If you want to take a look-see, they’re on my Family Album page. I’d like to set it up a little differently but it will do for now.

I can cross one thing off my list!

Denese

It’s a beautiful morning here in the Pawpaw Holler, they’re hollerin’ for snow but the sun is out and the clouds are almost gone!

I’m still moving links off my old blog and trying to get back to regular posting.  It has calmed down around here and we’re getting back on schedule, so maybe I can get caught up.

Some things I have planned to do this week:

Online

1. Upload a picture of my husband, Lacy (if I can find one that won’t scare everyone…he is an ol’ mountain man you know).

2. Add a calendar for Townsend TN and Great Smoky Mountains free events and activities.

3. Make a photo gallery page for our nature pictures.

4. Move more free resources links, all of the Old Hermit’s sayings and my recipes off my old blog.

5. Re-do my pages.

6. Post some free resources everyday.

I’ll have some freebies for you all later.

Denese