How much will it be? We will just have to wait and see.
There was a major landslide/debris flow in Maggie Valley last weekend caused by all this rain and snow. It is the epicenter of North Carolina's attempts to mimic California for natural disasters. I think about things like that much more than when I lived in Maui. My neighbors have had a mini landslide and looking over there today I saw something that didn't look good and went for a walk. It was fine. The meltage had just accentuated the previous mini slide.
And I saw this cute little house.
The second load of tongue and groove lumber for the ceiling is all used up.
I will be forced to return to painting primer while it snows tomorrow. Three walls in the main loft still need their first coat. Then I can start all over again while I wait for another hole in the weathers to go fetch more lumber.
In context it really is the little house on the mountain. The pictures will move you up hill to the low spot on a North Carolina mountaintop. Up here they call it a gap. Out west it is a pass.
RGH stands for resident gardeners house. I could pick out its location when magnifying the picture by the two still green spires of hemlocks that have been treated for the wooly adelgid.
Following contours is the most logical way to traverse this kind of terrain. The direct route between the cozy cabin and the RGH would be like a major stair climbing event without the steps.
And when I feel like walking down the road instead of through the sunny utility meadow I can pick up trash along the way. I like my scenic byway tidy.
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Hi Christopher! Wow...when will this weather cease?! I had heard about the land slide in Maggie as it was on the weather channel Friday night. Too scary! I'm sure everyone has forgotten that it was a short time ago that we were in a drought.
Love your pictures...they give us a very interesting perspective. That cute little house is too cute Is is someone's home or a kids play house? Your stretch of the scenic byway is beautiful. You not only keep it beautiful by picking up trash on your walks, but by the beautiful gardens that have been planted by the RG. I can picture the vivid colors of the blooming rhododendrons as we came around the corner on our way to visit last year.
That is an awful thing to have happen more so at night when you can't see. I'm glad no one was hurt. That's the only drawback about the mtns but there is always danger no matter where we choose to live.
I really like the little house. So quaint & it really fits in.
Now I have a more perspective idea of the old home place location to the Cozy Cabin. I didn't realize that the RG was so far away.
I truly hope that you don't get any more of the white stuff. Looks bad for D.C. area.
That little house in the first picture is about a foot and half tall, two feet max. I think it might be covering a well casing.
Siria the main snow is coming tomorrow I think. It has to end at some point though it would not surprise me if spring was late this year. I look forward to when the cabin is done and I can spend more time gardening and tidying what is seen from the road.
Lola a landslide would be a major scary thing to be in. The new clients I got last year are in a neighborhood where all the houses are on very steep slopes. I'm not sure I would want to live in a house in those conditions. You could pick out the old chimney in the last picture?
Yes! Meltage is good!
My own meltage today revealed a gift from some passerby in the form of an orange soda can ... certainly better than a beer bottle -- I get those too. Favorite and weirdest find (last summer): a stainless teaspoon. By itself. On the lawn next to the road.
That certainly *is* a cute little house. I hope whoever lives in it (dolls? fairies?) doesn't mind the relative lack of windows.
I continue to be amazed by your ability to turn your hand to almost anything, as well as your diligence. I'd be reading....
Julie in Henderson Co.
Ah, the little house is a mini house, how cute it looks with moss on the porch roof. Your own lofts look wonderful. I am for the enlarging of the storage after the inspector man is done with you. More room will be welcome and maybe a mattress will keep you from filling it with stuff. You might have guests sometime.
Frances
We live first house off a busy curve in a major road. There is always trash. I pick up all the time around the curve. It aggravates me to find so much trash. I have thought of keeping a log of the stuff I pick up. It comes in waves so to speak. Love seeing your neck of the woods.
Hi,
I'm new to this blog. Wondering where in N.C. that you are. We have a home in Linville Land Harbor (outside of Newland) and I am wondering if you are close to us. We have heard that we have damage to our roof from the Christmas ice storm and now we are worried that it may be worse as they told me several large broken branches are hanging over our house. I'm afraid these high winds will bring down more. We have a beautiful shade garden that has a lot of tree branches laying in it and we don't usually get up there until the middle of May. Live in Florida in the winter. If we can't stand not knowing the damage might have to drive up there when the snow finally quits. When ever that is.
Yes, on the down side of the curve.
I always picked up rocks even in front of our place in N.C. No rocks in grass from driveway either. The valley between the church & our place seemed to be a favorite place to discard all trash. Found a butcher knife once. Still have it. Forks, spoons---you name it I have found in that spot.
Julie beverage containers are without doubt the #1 trash item on the side of the scenic byway.
Frances I am going to store the added floor space in the lower roof space away for further consideration at the proper time.
Lisa I have been doing a regular 1/4 mile route of trash pickup on both sides of the byway from the county line at the top to the first big curve and pullout below me. I never did get to it before the snow piled up. I bet when it melts there will be two full large trashbags of beverage containers instead of one. Of course the plow could send a lot of it further over the side.
Hi Val. I saw pictures of that ice storm on Blue Ridge Blog. It is in my sidebar under blogs of Appalachia. She is based in Boone which is much closer to your place. I am down by Waynesville and the GSMNP. That storm in December caused major tree damage mostly to pines and other conifers. When the snow melts. That is a good question.
Lola the two stopping points on my trash route are used as dumps for the big stuff like toilets, deer parts and big hefty bags full of trash. I do not clean up the dump sites.
Christopher...I'm curious...are the stopping points that are used as dumps supposed to be used as dumps or is it that way because of what people drop off there? I am amazed at the trash I see around on the sides of the road.
No Siria they are not supposed to be dumps. It is more like local tradition to dump stuff off the steep side of the mountain in place where you can pull off the road. They are just too lazy to drive it to the recycle centers or the main dump. That stems of course from there not being any trash pickup service like in the cities.
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