Boathouse Update!

When we listed the boathouse for the World Equestrian Games coming in September,  we did not expect the amount of renters we would get the month before.

Every week in August we have renters of different ages, so we had our guy Jake put up a kayak launch making it easier to get in and out of the water. 

This was something we have needed for ourselves now that our balance and upper body strength is not what it used to be.  This will make it so easy to zip around the lake.

My favorite guest so far, Liz and her spaniel Banzai, seen in this photo at Niagara Falls.

Here is Banzai, our first canine guest to go out on a kayak.

Jo came for a night by herself. 

Hazel is there as I write with a friend and two dogs.  Doing a B&B is a lot of work, but we're tweaking it and things are getting easier.

In the garden, lots of mushrooms are popping up.  This has been a rainy summer . .  .

. . . and the pumpkins love it.  They are getting very big!

Still painting the bathroom at the farmhouse.  Getting ready for your October visit!

In rescue, busy week.  This is Ariah, now Bria.  She was listed as a chow in a high kill shelter in GA, and I knew she was golden.  So I contacted my friend Chantal in Knoxville and she found rescue to get her out.  70 dogs were killed right after we got her out of the shelter.

Bria, on the right, at her foster home in Knoxville, TN.  Adopt-A-Golden took her in.  Lucky girl!

This is Katie, at a high kill shelter in Memphis.  A Georgia rescue friend wanted her if I could set up volunteer transport.  It took me all week to get drivers, then Katie got out of the shelter and chewed through leashes, tried to dig out at her foster and was super stressed.  

She even ate a hole in Roni's car door!  Transport cancelled after all that work.  No way she could go from car to car, so Alisha of the Georgia rescue drove to Memphis to get her.  All is good now.

This is Chiffon (I named her) in a Kentucky shelter.  Another friend, Karen Dickson, called to see if I could find her rescue.  I did.  She is now out of shelter at Karen's home until we can move her to NC to my friend Tracy.

This is Ethel, a sad senior in a TN shelter.  Sara Kay in Pennsville, NJ asked for my help in getting her out, on transport and to NJ.  OF COURSE!!

Here is Ethel, now named Annie Maria (Sara named her in my honor, sort of haha) at her new home in NJ.  A lot saved this week, but four that I worked on were killed.  Rescue can be very depressing even when you are saving some. 

Our little movie theater in town has opened!  The Tryon Theater has been closed for months while being renovated.  Renovated in the Art Deco style.

Everything is new, the carpet, the seats, the bathrooms.  Hoping to get to see a movie soon.  

Opening day they were showing Wizard of Oz, sold out both days, then Yellow Submarine, sold out.  Maybe when my family comes in October, things will have settled down and we can go see a flick!