Patty's Blog

  Stopped into the local Hallmark store yesterday - August 17th - and there were 4 full displays of Christmas stuff!  Really!  And only 1 display of Halloween/Fall items!   It's just too early.... and as they say in the south, "it just ain't fittin'!"            

  VOTE FOR THE SMOKIES! Growing up in Knoxville, TN, we were in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.  We always took our out of town guests on a day trip with a picnic to the Smokies.  Gatlinburg, Cades Cove, Mount LeCont, and all the winding trails and babbling brooks!  And the occasional...