Our New Start: Spring has begun!

Finally got back down to North Carolina. It was nice getting out of the wilderness for a while and getting to spend time with family and friends over Easter! It's amazing how much you take for granted the common luxuries such as a bed haha As much as we enjoyed our break with family, we were itching to get back down and starting working on the land again!

The last time we were down in Bryson City, the trees were just starting to bud. Now that we're back down south, it seems to have changed a little!

Another fun 8 hour drive and here's our exit! Right off of Smokey Mountain Expressway (Route 74). From here, it's only a 15 minute drive to the top of our lot. The gas station on the right is also where we have our storage locker. We have our own surplus of books, clothing, camping supplies and other random things. It's right on the way into town too, so we'll usually stop here throughout the week while running about town. Convenient, ayee?

Over the bridge and through the woods, to our mountain lot we gooo.

Long winding roads off the highway towards our lot. It's not so bad when we have to run around for things because driving down here is so scenic! Lots of forests, creeks, and cute little homesteads along the road.

Here's 2 horsies right across the creek at the bottom of our Community. We usually end up driving past them to say hello =) Might be a future place to network with if we ever decided to get a horse down here.. hmm

Driveway to bottom lot is nice and lush now! Would probably even look better if we wanted to put up some homemade trellises and have vines arching over the driveway.. hmmm

The weather is constantly changing in the mountains! The weathermen are pro's down here too. Any time there's a cloud in the sky, we have a 50% "chance" of rain.. everyyy time. haha That's mountain weather for yuh! Here's a picture from the top lot after we got a quick rain shower.

Clouds in the valley on the road down the community. Reminds me of cotton candy..

Here's another picture of the creek that runs right at the bottom of our community.

Fun play time at the creek! She's still such a puppy haha

It only took her about 10 secs before she was swimming around in the water. Definitely a big girl now. (Her last swim encounter was 6 inches of water in her baby pool.) She wasn't so sure about the deep water at first, but every time we turned around she's just swimming around again! Playing fetch with a moving current definitely threw in an extra dynamic haha

Playing with another "stick." She's progressively been grabbing bigger ones but at least it helps fuel the fire!

Late night breakfast dinner! Breakfast skillet compliments of Chef Allison.

We've really been working hard on presenting ourselves in our best Southern sense. I think we're pulling it off pretty well.

Abby 2 - Stick 0

Allison's working on her best "Bear Face"... Allison 1 - Bear 0. We like to have fun while we work down here =)

We've been getting lots of sun working on the lot! Anytime we get some free time, it usually ends with pulling weeds, raking leaves, thinning out the underbrush or otherwise preparing the lot!

Here's some before and after pics!

Before: The soon to be location of our yurt!