At Home in Blacksburg

Carol and Jim live on 30 acres at the edge of the city where they are nearly self-supporting, certainly locavores. In the picture below the house is set further back than the barn on the right. The barn is a man-cave with every desirable object known to a handyman including two shy barn cats.

Both have retired from professorships at Virginia Tech, a university of 30,000 students and have more time to devote to grandchildren and raising home-grown produce on their farm. Deer live in the woods and get converted into meat so we had venison sausage for breakfast, along with their own eggs, Carol's bread and preserves.

Jim and David went out to look at every tree in the woods and Carol and I went to zumba. Wow! I never once did the same as the instructor and I was very glad to hear the magic word 'stretch' because it meant the agony was nearly over.