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StPeteDean


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I forgot to tell my cyber family that I was going away for a week.  This trip is the beginning of this years building season and it's good to be back after 5 months albeit earlier than usual as it's late April typically when I drag up here for the first time.  The weather treating me pretty well considering that there is still some snow on the ground and quite a bit in the higher elevations of the nearby mountain ridge.  

I usually don't have internet here but my next door neighbor got it installed and, with his permission, I am accessing his router, although I have to sit outside to get the signal.  So as the temps drop over the next day or so, I may not be willing.  So hear I am sitting in a camping chair, under the stars, with my macbook pro, my first ever laptop.  smile.gif


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Dean,

 When I read your subject line, I thought you went North to get warm and escape this year's Florida Winter.  LOL

Enjoy the Blue Ridge Mtns. are one of my favorite spots to visit.

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Thanks for checking in Dean! Enjoy your surroundings, sounds nice!

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Hi Dean,

Such a nice feeling - hearing from a fellow AA who is currently "high atop the Blueridge mountains".  

Being from 'sunny' England and struggling enough with the geographical locations of places in my OWN country, - am going to have to Google them to see just where they are!!

But it sounds beautiful!!aww Hope you are enjoying it.

love
Louisa



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Camping chair, under the stars, Blue Ridge mountains...sounds pd good to me, Dean, great stuff!

Steve

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Sounds so quiet....close your eyes and......
HEEELLLLOOOO!  biggrin

Can you hear me    calling you....

Sounds awesome Deano

Hope you enjoy your stay up close to the stars...

Toni

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If you're really good at centering, finding the quiet and stillness and meditating
that sounds like a great place to do it ceptin the cold of course.  I don't do cold
in any way shape or form.   Hell for me is temperatures below sixty.  LOL   You
Peaked my imagination Dean.... Thanks for that.  smile

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louisa wrote:

Hi Dean,

Such a nice feeling - hearing from a fellow AA who is currently "high atop the Blueridge mountains".  

Being from 'sunny' England and struggling enough with the geographical locations of places in my OWN country, - am going to have to Google them to see just where they are!!

But it sounds beautiful!!aww Hope you are enjoying it.

love
Louisa



Hi Louisa,  the Blue ridge is a sub set of the Appalachian mountains that run from Maine to Georgia.   The Blue ridge chain begins in Charlottesville Va.  and runs south to Ashville, NC  where the Smokie mountains begin.  North of Charlottesville, there called the Shenandoah mountains.  I'm in North Carolina about 1 mile from Tennessee and 25 miles south of my home state of Virginia, which I can see from my house.  smile.gif



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Just A question, any pictures to go with that awesome image of under the stars, on top of those georgous mountains....

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Btw, Hello to Larry, Steve, Steve P, Tonicakes, and Jerry. smile.gif

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Yes! WE WANT PICTURES!!!!!!!biggrin

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Thanks, now I've got Trail of the Lonsesome Pine on endless loop in my head. So which one would you be, Laurel or Hady? (I'll have to be the fat one, so you'll have to be the skinny one.)

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Dean,
Thanks for checking in.  Sounds terrific.  I've been to the Blue Ridge Mountains- flew into Ashville.  Very nice!  They say the Blue Ridge Parkway is spectacular in the fall.  Enjoy....

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Pics please :)

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Enjoy Dean. Wish I was there with ya!

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Spent 20+ years in VA (got sober there), naturally going up & down the Blue Ridge via the Parkway & fabulous country roads-you're making me "homesick"...glad I'll be going there for vacay in May, to see my sister (Roanoke) and my daughter (Richmond). Enjoy, enjoy, including the laptop! And an Apple no less---envy, envy!

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louisa wrote:

Yes! WE WANT PICTURES!!!!!!!biggrin



Here's some progress pictures from the foundation on up, with yours truly  in action.  lol

http://glaydinschoolalumni.multiply.com/photos/album/11/mountain_home_construction_03

http://glaydinschoolalumni.multiply.com/photos/album/13/mountain_home_construction_04

http://glaydinschoolalumni.multiply.com/photos/album/19/08_NC_mountain_home_pics



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Thanks^^^^ Truly beautiful!!

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What up Dean? Hope you are enjoying the trip! Being able to take vacations, afford them, deserve them....all byproducts of working the program and staying sober... figured that was worth pointing out to others and I know you are too modest to do it yourself.

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Dean,
Awesome!  Thank you for sharing.

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Absolutely beautiful Dean. Beautiful.smile

Steve

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Oh My God! That is beautiful.............amazing.

Thanks Dean - those pictures are wonderful.....really give me a good 'feel' for the place.  Beautiful!

I don't do envy but am ENVIOUS!!biggrin

Louisa xx

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Hi Deano,

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME......!!!!!!!!!!!

not to mention how utterly beautiful too.

Thank you so much for those Pictures.  What a Blessing Indeed.

Hugs, Toni,

Are you coming back soon, or are you back, just missing the Rock around here.....
                             
teevee.gif   this ROCK!......:)



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Hi Toni,

I got back last night. Good to be back in the tropics even though it hasn't been so tropical this winter.

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