Blog By Knight
Atlanta

I am really liking the Yelp Website. It is a good place to go to find out where to go. they have great reviews  done by real people. Every week they put together a list or as they refer to it a Weekly Yelp. This week the Yelp was a review of places to go [...]

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We have a B and B here at 130 Krog Street and this weekend we have a full house. Our guests are three men gator fans, and one is bringing his 17 year old son and 20 year old daughter from Florida coming up to see University of Florida beat Alabama on Saturday afternoon . One of them wrote to ask me what they should do with themselves while they are here. So I prepared the following customized itinerary

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I ran across a blog today, Chronic Tea, written by someone that obviously fancies the Wigwam Building. I am thinking that it may be one of the new owners of Unit D. I had to read many of her posts before finding that clue. And I think it is a her, but maybe not.

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I just snuck off for an hour from the Obama “Get out the Vote” district center being housed at my loft, to go to an art sale in Candler Park at the home of Janie Wright. She Has a studio in a small building in her backyard which is a delight. One of Janie’s former obsessions was creating gourd art. Now she has gone over to shells.
I just love to look at artist studios and Janie’s is an amazingly delightful place. Her work area is full of shells, separated into containers by type with all of her supplies readily available. This little studio set back in a lovely garden, looks like it would be a wonderful place to work or just to sit and bask in the dappled sunlight.

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The Oakland Cemetery is giving evening tours this Halloween weekend, October 24,25 and 26. You can go to their website to get a ticket (15.00 adults and 5.00 for children). Come in costume or just come to see the ghosts of several of the more famous residents and get a good history lesson at the same time. This is also a chance to go into some of the mausoleums. Very spooky. . .

My favorite seafood joint, Six Feet Under, a terrific seafood joint is offering 5.00 off per ticket for dinner. So grab yourself a tasty margarita and some catfish tacos to fortify yourself for the experience.

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The next time you need a root canal, I can recommend Dr. Jeffery Pafford as being the Endodontist with the best
view from his dental chair. This is the view from his 9th floor office in the Medical Building at 755 Commerce located behind Decatur Hospital.

The thing is when I went to get my root canal, Dr Pafford found that my molar aka, tooth number 31, was cracked. So then he had to send me down to the basement of the same building to see Dr. John Muse, an Oral Surgeon, to take the tooth out. Ouch. No, John Muse did a great job. I did not feel a thing until I was home and now it hurts!

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I am having a lot of fun running the The Urban Oasis Bed and Breakfast here at 130 A Krog Street in Atlanta. I am not your typical Bed and Breakfast proprietor. First of all, I don’t take just anyone, anytime. If someone calls at the last minute wanting accommodations, I sweetly say, Oh, I’m so sorry we don’t have any availability for tonight. Or if they call with some attitude or weird situation, same response, “no room at the inn”. But we have had some really great guests and actually none that were not great in their own way.

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My friends Mickey and Jackie tied the knot Saturday night, here at the Urban Oasis. Jackie’s Mom, Kathy and Dad, Jack and her Aunts and Uncles also stayed here for the weekend.

Back in the fall, when Jackie and her mother went looking at event spaces, Jackie told her that she knew of a great warehouse loft space that did weddings. But I think a warehouse space didn’t exactly fit her mom’s pictures of the setting where Jackie would get married.

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1) Fresh frozen Salmon fillets,
2) Fresh frozen Whole Salmon fillets,
3) Fresh Smoked and frozen salmon fillets.

Okay people today is your last chance to get your wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon. Come to the alley behind Joe’s Loft (corner of Boulevard and Irwin, on the Irwin side near the dumpster) from 3:00 - 8:00 PM and bring cash, checks or charge cards. Joe’s buddy, Tony the Fish Boy, is back in town from Alaska with his delightful girlfriend Heather, two German Short Hair Pointers and a trailer full of fresh frozen Salmon that he caught himself in Alaska this past season. Tony sells wholesale to fancy schmancy restaurants and groceries, but he always stops twice a year in Atlanta, to see his pal Joe and keeps all of Joe’s friends and neighbors in Salmon. And as Tony says,

straight from my boat to your plate!

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