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There’s no place like home! That’s what I said when I walked around my house this morning, back from a trip. We took some vacation time and handled a few business meetings.<\/p>\n

We rented a house in Tennessee, near the mountains, and packed up both pets and family and took two cars.\u00a0 On the way to Tennessee, we drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway. I’d forgotten how beautiful that part of Virginia is…and the trees were just starting to turn gorgeous fall colors.<\/p>\n

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Bridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Pierre travels in style<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Pierre was a trooper, and the cat traveled in style in a large soft-sided dog crate that sort of folded into the well between the front seat of the car and the back seat. It made a hammock for his rolly-polly self, and with my old pink afghan on the bottom of the crate, he had a snuggly little place to hide for the duration of the car trip. Once inside the rental cabin, he was nervous for only about two hours, then he began exploring. Soon he was enjoying the mountain view from the bedroom, where we had floor to ceiling windows, and he could be safely contained.\u00a0 One opinion Pierre and I shared; we did not like all the taxidermy animals in the cabin!\u00a0 The cabin was rustic, and had deer heads mounted everywhere, as well as a stuffed fox and squirrel on top of the kitchen cabinets. The first few days, neither pet noticed all the stuffed wildlife….then Pierre spotted the deer head over the couch. Oh boy. It was like World War II broke out, with a hissing, spitting, stalking gray cat after…a deer head.\u00a0 He’d race around the living room, hiding behind the couches, then leaping and hissing at the head mounted over the top of the couch.\u00a0 Shadow took a dislike to the fox perched over the kitchen cabinet.\u00a0 Every time I went to get a dish out of the cabinet, she’d throw herself between me and the counter, barking and growling.\u00a0 Finally she realized that I wasn’t under attack from a stray dog and just chuffed and growled at the thing.\u00a0 Shudder.\u00a0 I really, really dislike dead wildlife stuffed for art…yuck.\u00a0 But heck, it wasn’t my cabin, and it was a really lovely rental.\u00a0 It had all the comforts of home, and even a dog run outside for Shadow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Waterfall, Blue Ridge Mts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I won’t go into all the details of the fun parts, but suffice to say that I learned I can still bike about 12 miles on a trail and enjoy it; hiked to a waterfall (7 miles round trip), and walked 15 miles in one day on another trail. The rest of the trip was car rides and business stuff, which you aren’t interested in anyway.\u00a0 I did do a lot of garden visits and took notes and have a list a mile long of ideas from all the gardens I saw!<\/p>\n

I’ll share the Gentry Creek Falls Trail stories another day.\u00a0 For now, I’ve got to get back to work, but I thought you might enjoy seeing your humble correspondent and her hiking pal, Shadow.\u00a0 Pierre, alas, does not hike.\u00a0 Shadow enjoys wearing her pink bandana to match my pink t shirt.<\/p>\n

Glad to be home.\u00a0 My garden looks like it was solar baked without watering. I have nothing to enter the country fair, since all my zinnias died (sniff) but will help my neighbor bring her canned goods to the fair this weekend.\u00a0 Lots of fall fun in the works here in the countryside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Hiking in Tennessee There’s no place like home! That’s what I said when I walked around my house this morning, back from a trip. We took some vacation time and handled a few business meetings. We rented a house in Tennessee, near the mountains, and packed up both pets and family and took two cars.\u00a0…<\/p>\n

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