I tell ya, it can really be hard to understand some of them!, I was listening to two guys talking to each other, and they could not understand each other!

Hmmm. You've been there a whole week, and there wasn't one "ya'll" in your post!! And you call yourself a Southerner!!

No, but I've mastered the finger wave. No not the middle one. everyone waves!
This town is so small, everyone knows everyone We have run into people 40 miles away that knows something about our house. our nearest ATM is 19 miles one way & 16 miles the other.We had to drive 35 miles one way yesterday to go to a Walgreens to get chiggerex for my legs. but that's what we like, its also a dry county, you can't buy alcohol either, you can buy beer, but the county line is 5 - 6 miles (town is 16) down the road along with the time change.

We got a 1800 sf house ranch style, everything is on one level, 3 brs, 3 baths, 26x26x garage, 31x36 work shop with a 11x36 shed built across the back of it, city water and a working well, 6.25 acres with a pond.
There is a 4 point buck & a doe that comes up to us that we feed oat meal cookies to, and let us pet them. We also have a female Peacock that likes to sit on the roof, it sounds like a loud broken squeaky toy!

We stayed at the Alcoa airport Day's Inn! Don't stay there!!!! It was the only place we could stay that took a dog & 2 cats, on a weekly basis! The cops were there every night and we called them twice, we had to stay there 3 1/2 weeks till we could close on the house. We had one in mind from the internet before we left Mn, and looked at it the day after we got here, then but in a offer that day and we ended up with it, but had to sit and wait, to close on it, then we started cleaning and no water!, they came out on Memorial day and put a whole new water line in! , then we started to move everything up here. Whew!
We love it! cell phones won't work for about a 10 mile area, no city!.................... no nothing!, but animals, everywhere But did I tell ya! we have a street light between the house & shop ! It does get dark at night, brite on clear nights, we like to sit on the front porch at 5:00 am and drink coffee and watch the world wake up! Last month we got Dish network, today we got the internet. We wanted to get cable again but they stopped at address 623 ane we're 1240 I don't like dish TV but it's the only TV out here.

Pat