Wednesday, August 15, 2018

It all started with a drive

After a lovely drive through the South Carolina mountains in the Fall 2016, we both commented on how beautiful it all was and if we didn't already live in our 'Forever Home' on the lake, the mountains would be a nice place to live.

We continued to take drives through the mountains and started peeking into the neighborhoods.  We started talking about downsizing, about how much space we really needed, what we would change, what we wanted for our future.  So we started to plan.  Did we want a log cabin out in the woods or a home in a community?  Eventually we settled on a larger community with lots of social groups, clubhouse, restaurant, swimming pool, tennis and golf (not that we play tennis or golf mind you).  And we found this...


It has a kickass view


They started digging the foundation today :)


First Snow

It was pretty but it didn't last long.   We are at about 2,100' above sea level here, about 1,000' higher than the "...