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Musings on Life in my Fifties . . .

I booked a couple of weddings here at 130 Krog Street for the fall and it got me thinking about all the brides out there that may need a place to get married but didn’t think about it a year in advance and now the good places are all taken. So if you are a bride or know a bride, there are still weekends

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Wouldn’t you know it. I plan my garage sale and an hour and a half into it the rain pours down. I think I made about 100.00 and most of that was from my friend Callahan buying backs gifts she gave me. No just kidding. Well there was the Marilyn Monroe handbag that she gave me for my birthday one year.

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After Buenos Aires you might thing that we would need a break but noooo… The Atlanta Tango Festival is here this week- in of all places, Atlanta. There are some pre-festival happenings starting tonight but the real deal begins Friday afternoon. Duane and I are hosting an out of town tango couple here at the [...]

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I have been working on the website for the Urban Oasis Bed and Breakfast all week and am almost finished fiddling around with it. I am really excited about getting our first guests. We don’t have paying guests yet,

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This week Duane and I are leaving for Buenos Aires to attend Cita, an International Tango Festival. We will be there for ten days and at the end of our stay my daughter Amanda and her boyfriend Leandro will visit us from Rio where she is in school this quarter, and he does computer animation [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, I was talking to Mary about needing to figure out how to get the HGTV episode of Rezoned that featured my loft on Krog Street, to play on my blog. I figured that I’d need to first get it

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When Mary and I went to Forsyths, the day we saw all the roosters, I got some great fabric for a bed-skirt and pillow shams to go on the bed in Amanda’s old room for the soon to be Bed and Breakfast. I used an existing European Sham for a template for the pillows. For [...]

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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. In my [...]

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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 go [...]

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