The World According to Leslie

As you turn left onto Main Street in Banner Elk, you see a quaint little building labeled "Chamber of Commerce" with a sign out front inviting you to "Race Your Wooly Worm"! Banner Elk, North Carolina, is the home of the Annual Wooly Worm Festival , but it is also home to Lee-McRae College.   Just a couple turns of the tires later, you see this sign saying to "Turn Here" to park for Open House. At check in, they gave us Lunch Vouchers. Three of the four places on the voucher were within walking distance of the campus. The other was only a couple blocks away, so we could have walked there.      Just about every school we have visited has given Chasity a bag and a t-shirt. She's never going to run out of t-shirts!!  At Lees-McRae, they had the bag customized. It had her degree plan in there. It gave information specific about the art program. Most schools just give you a generic bag and let you collect information from your specific program as you make t...

 Today is one of those days where I may flood the world with pictures. I really wish we would have had time to stop at some of the overlooks on the way up and home on Saturday.  Around 6:30am, we left home for Banner Elk, North Carolina. I love going to the mountains, and I am sure you ALL know that already! I go to the mountains to be able to clear my head and breathe deeply. It doesn't matter what time of year it is; I love being at a higher elevation. These are just some of the pictures I took on my phone as Tony was driving. I love taking pictures of nature.  The leaves were at peak color or very close to it. It was beautiful.  These pictures are all after we hit the deer. You can read about that here .  There were times we thought we were going to get rain, but we didn't. It was just foggy. I guess this is why they are called the Great Smoky Mountains .  I know that God made all things, but sometimes I think He put a little special something in the mou...

On Saturday morning, Tony, Chasity, and I were headed to Banner Elk, NC, to check out Lees-McRae College (a separate post about that coming later!)!  According to GPS, it is about 2.5 hours to get there. We left about 6:30am for a 9:30am start time for the Open House event.  We were about 35 miles away; Chasity and I were both sleeping, as usual. Tony hit the brakes, and it woke me up. I opened my eyes just in time to see and feel a deer hit the side of my van.  Tony said it came from the woods on the right side of the highway, and he slowed down and moved over. The deer sped up and CRUNCH! This is what my van looks like now. We are waiting on the insurance people to call us and set up all the fixing information.  Tony had to pull that really bent part off of the tire so we could drive and not split a tire!  Yes! That is deer hair on the car!!!  Once we got pulled over by the guardrail, Tony got out and checked the damage. He was about to call 9-1-1 when tw...