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Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#1 Posted:
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Hubby is a little perturbed. He got smacked real hard today. The return address is "Opie Taylor, 332 Maple Road, Mayberry, NC. So it must be someone here that knows that we are moving to Mt. Airy NC, i.e. Mayberry (where Andy Griffith grew up and based Mayberry on).

Awesome hit

Padron 1926 #90 Tubo - N/H but Awesome!
Illusion Ultra Toro - N/H but he loves Illusion
AVO Nicaragua Toro - N/H but he loves AVO
My Father Rob - one of his favorites
Herrera Esteli Toro - one of his regular rotations
Undercrown Toro - another one of his regular rotations

He does not know who this hit came from, but he's been doing his detective work. He mumbled something like "Joe, Joel, George", well, at least it sounded something like that, along with "payback is a b*tch". Then he started singing "California Dreaming". I think someone may be in trouble.
dstieger Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 06-22-2007
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LOL...nice.....sounds like a cross between a Dixie Chicken and Mama Cass
Ewok126 Offline
#3 Posted:
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Very nice hit to whom ever done it way to go.

Mt Airy is a very nice place,I have been there quite a few times. I use to live out in the maiden area. My stomping grounds was out in Boone, Blowing rock, Loved to hunt Pisgah area. I miss home so much.

Good luck in finding the culprit!
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#4 Posted:
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Ewok126 wrote:
Very nice hit to whom ever done it way to go.

Mt Airy is a very nice place,I have been there quite a few times. I use to live out in the maiden area. My stomping grounds was out in Boone, Blowing rock, Loved to hunt Pisgah area. I miss home so much.

Good luck in finding the culprit!


We're actually about 15 miles west of Mt. Airy, (part way up the mountains) even though Mt. Airy will be our mailing address. Hubby and I have spent a lot of time hiking the trails off the Blue Ridge. My profile photo was taken on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Our house would be like 15 to 20 miles behind me, he, he.
dstieger Offline
#5 Posted:
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As soon as I retire, we're headed to the other side of the mountains from you. Probably between Johnson City and Dandridge, though likely closer to Dandridge
burnem2 Offline
#6 Posted:
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My oldest daughter is at ETSU in Johnson City. Pretty place..........
Ewok126 Offline
#7 Posted:
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The wife and I use to drive the Parkway all the time, We would make it a point to get lost in the hills. All the picnic spots and stargazing at night. Those was the days. You just can't beat those mountains and OMG in the Fall. In all my years of travel I have never seen a place as beautiful as there and I would imagine I never will again.

In my mind it's just the best place on the planet. Even when I lived near asheville up in Madison otherwise known as Bloody Madison, we had a cabin on the side of the mountain the front porch faced east and the back west so every day I could watch the sunrise and set. The wildlife astounding from turkey to deer and flying squirrels. I would feed them off the back porch during the winter. Trout fishing in the Davidson River. That lifestyle just can't be beat.

I am very excited for you and hubby to have such an awesome place. Enjoy it while you can and soak it all in because it just don't get any better than that.

EDIT" OOO I had forgot, we use to find wild mint growing there as well. I had found a recipe for sweet mint tea from a gentleman that lived in the hills. That was the best sweet tea I had in my entire life. We found this fellow at a rodeo there and he was kind enough to share how to make it. Now I cant have good ole southern sweet tea any more but I can still remember the taste. It became a staple at my home while there.
RMAN4443 Offline
#8 Posted:
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dstieger wrote:
LOL...nice.....sounds like a cross between a Dixie Chicken and Mama Cass

didn't Mama Cass die choking on a Dixie Chicken Sammich?Anxious
Ron_Howard Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 02-22-2018
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
Hubby is a little perturbed. He got smacked real hard today. The return address is "Opie Taylor, 332 Maple Road, Mayberry, NC. So it must be someone here that knows that we are moving to Mt. Airy NC, i.e. Mayberry (where Andy Griffith grew up and based Mayberry on).

Awesome hit

Padron 1926 #90 Tubo - N/H but Awesome!
Illusion Ultra Toro - N/H but he loves Illusion
AVO Nicaragua Toro - N/H but he loves AVO
My Father Rob - one of his favorites
Herrera Esteli Toro - one of his regular rotations
Undercrown Toro - another one of his regular rotations

He does not know who this hit came from, but he's been doing his detective work. He mumbled something like "Joe, Joel, George", well, at least it sounded something like that, along with "payback is a b*tch". Then he started singing "California Dreaming". I think someone may be in trouble.



I knew you were moving to NC, but had no idea it was to the real life Mayberry! Happy coincidence... tell your hubby he is greatly missed around these parts... no payback, this was a long overdue gift for a much revered man... good luck with the move...

Ronnie
DrafterX Offline
#10 Posted:
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MIL lived in Hendersonville up in da mountains for many years... Made several trips out there but never stayed more than a few days.. the Biltmore is a cool place too... Mellow
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#11 Posted:
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Ron_Howard wrote:
I knew you were moving to NC, but had no idea it was to the real life Mayberry! Happy coincidence... tell your hubby he is greatly missed around these parts... no payback, this was a long overdue gift for a much revered man... good luck with the move...

Ronnie


Yes, happy coincidence. Hubby wants to thank you for your extremely generous hit. Everything you sent is in his wheel house. He always wanted to try a 1926 but he's too cheap to buy one, lol. He also says you are very lucky. He's 99% sure who you are Jo.., er, I mean Ronnie, but your address is in his PM box, and he can not access his locked account. So you are safe, for now.....
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
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^^^^Ewok, yes it is wonderful there. Imagine us going from a 50' x 150' lot on a heavily traveled main road in socialist NJ, to 2 acres on a dead end country road part way up the Blue Ridge Mountains. We can sit on the back deck and watch sheep and cattle grazing with mountains in the background, or sit on the front porch and watch the dozen or so horses across the street. We also are not "damn" Yankees who go south and then try to change everything. We like the way things are in our new southern community just fine. It will be great to finally be able to live around folk with the same values as we have. NC feels more like "home", then NJ ever did, even though both of us where Jersey born and raised. Hubby has always said that he wish we had been born in the south.
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
#13 Posted:
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dstieger wrote:
As soon as I retire, we're headed to the other side of the mountains from you. Probably between Johnson City and Dandridge, though likely closer to Dandridge


Hubby's brother was planning on moving to the Johnson City area before his fatal motorcycle accident. He really loved that area. Too bad there is no dirrect route over the mountains. It's faster to go back north on 77 and take 81 down into Tennesee, then to try and cross the mountains.

Riverdog (Jamie) who used to be an ative member here lives about 45 minutes south of our new place and hubby has herfed with him a few times.

So, I guess that means that once you retire, you'll be attending the "Redneck Herf" in Tennesee?
frankj1 Offline
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
Hubby's brother was planning on moving to the Johnson City area before his fatal motorcycle accident. He really loved that area. Too bad there is no dirrect route over the mountains. It's faster to go back north on 77 and take 81 down into Tennesee, then to try and cross the mountains.

Riverdog (Jamie) who used to be an ative member here lives about 45 minutes south of our new place and hubby has herfed with him a few times.

So, I guess that means that once you retire, you'll be attending the "Redneck Herf" in Tennesee?

please tell Riverdawg I send my best. Great guy. Is he feeling OK?
Ewok126 Offline
#15 Posted:
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
^^^^Ewok, yes it is wonderful there. Imagine us going from a 50' x 150' lot on a heavily traveled main road in socialist NJ, to 2 acres on a dead end country road part way up the Blue Ridge Mountains. We can sit on the back deck and watch sheep and cattle grazing with mountains in the background, or sit on the front porch and watch the dozen or so horses across the street. We also are not "damn" Yankees who go south and then try to change everything. We like the way things are in our new southern community just fine. It will be great to finally be able to live around folk with the same values as we have. NC feels more like "home", then NJ ever did, even though both of us where Jersey born and raised. Hubby has always said that he wish we had been born in the south.


Ha! I have not heard the term "Damn" Yankees in ages. Granted NC and SC has always been home for me but I have to admit for the most part the folks that make up that area in NC in my heart are just super fantastic. There, folks seem to be caring and are very genuine to where in other places I have been it seemed more forced and fake. Yes going from that size lot to the area you are in now. The feeling of freedom I would imagine is astounding. Well, to me it was.

Tell hubby No need in being born in the south, it's just a mindset more than anything else. Well other than having a great childhood. Swimming in the creeks, Barefoot in soft wet moss, the smell of the woods. You just can not beat it.

Keep a close eye on the pastures and fields early mornings and at dusk, you will spot deer and turkey on occasion. The best view I had was while sitting on my back porch and the sun was coming up and a low lying thin fog was laying on the ground. I looked out at the pasture across the hill and I noticed huge horns. I realized it was one large buck standing on the peak with the sun behind him and I counted 21 doe all over the hillside. It was just amazing.

If hubby and yourself like to trout fish you can not beat the area you are in. Also about 3 hours from your current position out toward Pisgah is the Davidson river which is a freestone river. A great place to camp, hike and most of all trout fish. I hope that come fall we will get to see some photos of the area posted here on the forums? That way I can get more homesick than I am now.
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
please tell Riverdawg I send my best. Great guy. Is he feeling OK?


We haven't seen him for a couple years, but we will be sure to pass on your regards next time we do. He came to the RV a couple times (before we moved it to the new house), and David went to his place once. He has a beautiful home on the top of a mountain, a beard down to his waist, and he keeps calling my 60 year old Hubby, "young man", though I think he is actually the younger one.
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
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^^Thanks for the info, Ewok, and I'm so sorry my posts have made you homesick. We see deer all the time. One morning David was changing a light fixture on the back deck when he heard this faint "crying sound". Turned around to see a fawn standing about 5 feet from the deck. Bear have been spotted on the property at the end of the road, though we haven't seen any around our place. Still, David likes to strap on one of his .44 mags when he smokes on the back deck at night. We have photos of our October hikes (Grandfather Mountain area) from about 4 years ago, when the fall foliage was one of the finest in years. I'll have to see if I can find them. Every time I am down there, enjoying the beauty and tranquility, I have to thank God for blessing us so.
frankj1 Offline
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
We haven't seen him for a couple years, but we will be sure to pass on your regards next time we do. He came to the RV a couple times (before we moved it to the new house), and David went to his place once. He has a beautiful home on the top of a mountain, a beard down to his waist, and he keeps calling my 60 year old Hubby, "young man", though I think he is actually the younger one.

...and he fixes animals, so he's gotta be cool.
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