My Mountain

Clinch Mountain is "my" mountain.......

Let me explain.

I didn't even know it myself two years ago.

When we were house shopping we looked over three counties for a house. Only one of those counties had mountain views.....and I realized I *needed* my mountain. We looked at several really nice houses in those places...one even had something like 17 rooms!....but nothing could be "really" considered, because it wasn't the right place.

I wasn't raised on the mountain, but I have lived within sight of it all my life. When I was small I lived in the foothills and if you climbed to the top of the hills you could see the mountain. When I was 12 we moved to an old farmhouse at the base of the mountain, separated only by a creek, and I spend lots of lovely hours exploring the mountain. When I was 16 we moved again, this time onto actual mountain land. :)

After I was married I spend 1 year on the opposite side of the mountain, then we moved back to where I lived when I was small and after that all my moves were repeated. ;) I just realized that while writing this.....foothills,at the base across a creek, then back onto my mountain.

Our house is situated so that while I actually *own* mountain land - yay! - every morning when I wake up I see the mountain, too...I LOVE it!

I hear rumours that the farm I grew up on is being logged, but I haven't been back in about 6 months. It doesn't bother me as much as I would have once thought, because I have my own little piece of heaven.....I mean mountain.... ;)