Sounds like a life well-lived, and I can just 'see' your location in the mountains and imagine settin' on tha porch with yew, a'rockin' and a'jawin'...:))
I lived in Winston-Salem and Greensboro for 19 years, so those mountains are embedded in my heart.
Once attended the Highland Games on Grandfather Mountain, and the Scots blood in me sang and reverberated with the grandness of it all.
You are a breath of fresh air to us on Free Republic - I truly can hear your laughter of joy echo across the mountains - - -