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I'm out on 330 so I don't hear the lot myself, but from what I've seen it's mostly the holiday weekends and nice-weather Saturdays. Midweek it's pretty quiet. I haven't heard of anything formal from the Village on…

With the holiday weekend coming I've been thinking about this one. The trail system here is advertised at 90+ miles now, and the color-coded routes seem to be bringing people in. Green is the hard one, Blue is the…

Morgan, I think you've got the daytime part right... When we first moved here a lot more folks worked right in the Bay, at the resort, the golf courses, the marina, the stores. So somebody was always around on a…

Wayne that's a good point about the non-fire jobs, I never thought about it that way. Most of what keeps a volunteer dept going probably isnt the running into the fire part. Its the paperwork and the building and…

Morgan's right about the daytime part, at least from what I've seen. The folks with free weekdays are mostly my age, and a lot of us couldn't pass a physical or haul hose anymore. Doesn't mean we're no use though. I'd…

honestly the part nobody on facebook wants to say is that volunteer means volunteer. The folks with time to run a call at 2pm on a Tuesday are mostly retired, and the younger ones are driving to Heber or Clinton or…

So council voted unanimously back in January to finally move on that grant for the outdoor stage and the new parking lot for tourists and the ATV/UTV crowd. Six years that thing sat there. It was put together under…

Reflective numbers are cheap, any hardware store has them. Put them on a post at the road and on the house too, since mailboxes get missed. I'd like to hear what the station says when you go by. Don't know the county…

Thanks, Amber, and fair point on keeping it to how the system works. I probably shouldn't have even mentioned the neighbor, but I didn't name anybody and I'll leave it there... The house number thing is a good one…

Thank you for starting this one, Cedric, and for keeping it respectful. I'd like to help it stay that way, so a gentle request to everyone: let's focus on how the system works and how we can support it, and leave out…

A neighbor up on the hill told me last week about how long it took for help to get to their house when they called... I won't say who, and I'm not looking to point fingers at anybody. It just got me thinking that after…

I know it's June and nobody is thinking about a wood stove right now, but that's kind of the point. Wood you buy in the summer has time to sit and dry out a little more before the first cold snap, and you're not…

Soup in the freezer beats my system, which is smoking a pork butt on Sunday and eating pulled pork till Wednesday. My wife says she can hear it when I open the fridge. But it does solve Monday. Agree on calling ahead…

Monday's been the dead night in the Bay as long as I've been here... and that's a good while now. My rule is call ahead. Don't trust the sign, and don't trust whatever the Facebook page says either, half of those…

My in-laws are selling up north and moving to the Bay this fall (dont ask, I tried to talk them out of it) and now I'm the one who has to figure out healthcare for them. Great. So for those of you living here full…

Trying to plan ahead for the slow months. Last winter I got caught a couple of times driving around the Bay at 6:30 on a Monday night with nothing lit up, and I ended up with cereal for supper. Not my proudest moment…

Got up on the stepladder this morning (more on that in a minute) and the pine needles are packed into the valleys of our roof and the gutters are about full again. We're up on Lost Creek Parkway with oaks and pines on…

the cooler speech is the honest one, keep it. and the "half the town shuts down" thing isnt even always the season, a lot of its that nobody can get staff. places close at 7 on a tuesday and folks act like its…

Cindy, the road work warning is the one I always forget, then somebody's calling me from the shoulder of 330 with a boat trailer and a bad attitude. Adding it to the speech. Loretta's right about hickory, I'll give her…

Loretta's January line made me laugh because it's true. I've seen people show up in February, find half the restaurants dark, and decide the whole town is dead. Nobody ever told them. What I say is to think of it like…

Cindy's right about the road work, though I'd add that the 330 curves will sneak up on anybody pulling a boat who isn't used to them. I tell people to take it slow and not trust the GPS to know what time it is. I will…

Keisha's right about calling the district office, and I'd go one step further and actually sit in on a school board meeting if you can. Most of them post the agenda ahead of time and you learn more in an hour of that…

Morgan, the jobs thing is the one I hear from other parents too, and I think it's the real reason you see so few families in their thirties out here. Plenty of people I know ended up working in Heber or Clinton because…

HA THE FREEZER PLAN IS THE ONLY REAL DEER FENCE THERE IS. just dont go lining up shots out the back deck tho, inside the Bay its a totally diferent deal than out on private land or the nat forest, so check with Game…

Every other week and you're still running out of bread and coffee, so maybe that's the real problem lol. I put up beans and tomatoes all summer so veg is covered, Clinton is just for the boring stuff. Honestly the…

ok the gas isn't the killer, you're right, it's the ice. Hubby's white-knuckled 330 more than once when it glazed over before the road crew got to it, and that truck takes a beating either way. Forty some minutes each…

Good one, pets are the thing I'd have forgotten. My neighbor has two big dogs and they go through a bag faster than he does. I'll add a jug of water for them to my list. Scotland is a lot closer to Clinton than we are…

Don't forget the pets. I keep an extra bag of dog food and some cat food put back, rescues eat more than you'd think when you're stuck in the house. Also a jug of water just for them. I'm in Scotland so Clinton's…

The percolator on the smoker is a good call, never thought of it. My electric pot is worthless with the power out, so that's going on the list this week. Stacking errands makes sense too. I've been making dedicated…

The deer, yes. I lost a whole row of hostas my first spring and took it personally. What's held up on my end of Lost Creek Parkway is lamb's ear, salvia, lavender and rosemary. They'll sniff around but mostly leave…