Blog By Knight
2008 February

I was playing with my camera today after spending three hours with my accountant. I went on a vision quest around the house. I first saw Duane’s cat, Shelly walking on the railings.

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Mary and I went out to Atlanta’s westside to visit one of her buddies from the Beehive, Lynn Morgan Tenille, at her “industrial chic” Sage Saks handbag studio. Sage Saks was having an open house and we went to check out Lynn’s fabulous hand tailored bags and also the studio space where she makes them. [...]

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I woke up to the smell of the coffee that Duane had brought to me (I’m very spoiled!) and had a few sips while I thought of what I wanted to do with my day. I definitely wanted to get some more done on the kids rooms. We are in the midst of a major [...]

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Tired of the gloomy, damp and cold, feeling landlocked and cooped up with the winter blues? How about a great little getaway with a front row seat on the Gulf of Mexico?

Duane and I have just finished rebuilding Southern Breeze #4 which was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan back in 2004. Well don’t feel [...]

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I have been tossing around the idea of having a B&B here at 130 Krog Street in the loft I that I designed and built in an old cotton sorting warehouse. I purchased the entire building in 1998 and turned it into seven loft condos keeping Unit A for my home and office. [...]

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Before she had children, my sister, Mary use to work with me as marketing director of our software company. She ran marathons in her spare time and she was a contender! I remember when her goal was to run a marathon under 2 hours and 50 minutes. And she did it; qualifying her [...]

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Last weekend my sister Linda , a design consultant located in Tampa came up to Atlanta to stay at my Urban Oasis for a few days. It was Scott Flea Market Weekend and we always have a great time there. We have an eye for the same things so it is really fun to [...]

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Growing up I lived in all the great beach towns around the US since my Dad was in the Navy. The moving around had its good points but when I was an adult I wanted to live in one place and let my children grow up with stability. I figured they could travel during the [...]

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My first experience with blogging was on Dogster.com which is a “my space” for Dogs. My Basset Hounds Clyde, Clifford and Craig Longfellow had their own blog entries. What was really strange is that

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