Cold Springs Ranch Guestbook

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Hi Mike. Thanks for the weather updates. We are always wondering when the pipes might be freezing. Maybe next time we are up, we can get together. We love the picture of the snow on the tree, it is magical. Nick and Susan
Nick and Susan Roark
Wadmalaw Isl., SC USA - Friday, January 28, 2005 at 16:41:01 (PST)

Hi Mike, I found your site off Weather Undrground. It is nice to know what is happening up the road. I appreciate your web efforts. Ron Coates
Ron Coates
Spring Creek, NC USA - Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 11:32:20 (PST)

Hey Mike, It's your cousin again. Neat to see your West trip pictures. We were in Kansas City last June. We went to Cabela's. It's a neat place. Eddie was in K.C. on busines, so we had to fly. I joined him there on our anniversary, 06/16. We enjoyed Cabela's and the Plaza in K.C. We also made a day trip on back roads to Topeka, Kansas. The countryside was beautiful, although there wasn't much to see in Topeka. I had done work for the V.A. there remotely a few year ago, and wanted to see the hospital. We hope to get out West again soon. This time drive! Love, Vicki
Vick Sprouse
Charlotte, NC USA - Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 13:25:04 (PST)

Enjoy the tour of your dream spot so much
Jackie Harvey
Vero Beach , Fl. USA - Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 13:43:02 (PST)

Hi Mike, just wanted to say I enjoyed your website. The Land that you have your cabin on was at one time my great-great grandfathers. I know many of the stories that occurred there in years past. Well keep up the good work and I look forward to your updates.
Wayne Lowe
Onsted, MI USA - Thursday, January 06, 2005 at 11:56:27 (PST)

Thank you for this wonderful place on the net.
Kazaa
Australia, ru Australia - Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 10:12:10 (PST)

Mike, I think I'm in love!! You are actually living the "picture-perfect" life I have always dreamed could exist.I am totally in awe of the lifestyle I've just witnessed. I have only dreamed of the things you have shared. Just the fact that they really do exist is like finding out "Yes, Virgina, there really is a Santa Clause!"! Thank you very much for allowing me to have your website address and for thinking I would enjoy it. I can't begin to tell you how much I did. If your offer still stands, I would love to drive up and see your world. I particularly loved "Nowhere". I have longed for that place since I can remember. Apparently, you are one of the rare few who know how to apprectiate that special place. Thank you for not even considering the offers to sale. I wouldn't either. Money has no place or bearing on something so wonderful. You are truly blessed. Your "babies" Timber and Sugar are goregeous! I'm sure they are great companions as well. I will close for now. It's my one off-day and I need to get home to do some work. I look forward to seeing you again and to re-visiting your site. My number is in the phone book. Or you know my work number. Say hi to Kenny and to keep it "between" the ditches!!HaHa! s
cathy turner
newport, tn USA - Friday, November 12, 2004 at 11:39:25 (PST)

Drove out to CSR to view the leaves...great...For the next 5 months I will be checking your weather ....Have a safe and great new year....Thanks for the great site...Friends Bea/Dick
Bea/and/Dick Doviken
Trinity-Gunn Hwy, Fla USA - Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 16:59:03 (PST)

Hi Mike! Finally got a chance to check out the web site. The ranch is as beautiful as Kenny said. Have a good one! Ang.
Angie Robinson
Sweetwater, TN USA - Saturday, October 30, 2004 at 11:56:50 (PDT)

Hi there, We are in the process of closing on one of the lots in the ranch and did a general search for Cold Springs Ranch and your site came up, I think it is Wonderful and I can't wait to meet some of people there and make new friends and neighbors. This will be a vacation home for us not a full time resident, but we are very excited about the Ranch. Hope to meet you and your beautiful dogs. Thanks so much for the website and keeping the non-full timers up to date on the happenings of the Ranch.
Lisa Johnson
Lexington, nc USA - Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 06:36:23 (PDT)

Hey Mike, What a great website! I lived in Balsam for a year ( about 600 feet north of Balsam Mtn. Inn), then Waynesville for a year, and then in Sylva for about 3 years. I worked at Mast General Store when I lived in Waynesville. My children were born there and, honestly, I would like to spend the rest of my life there. Hopefully, I will be back in a couple of years. Thanks for all the great imagery that you have provided; both visually and mentally. My girls are in love with your dogs. Thanks again for the great site! Sincerely, Art Bowman
Art Bowman
St. Petersburg, FL USA - Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 07:35:51 (PDT)

Hey Mike! Wow, just read the "Llahma story!" How sad....I love Llahmas, just about any animal actually. That sounds like a whopper of a bear! Hope you are doing well. Love, Vicki
Vicki Sprouse
Charlotte, NC USA - Sunday, August 08, 2004 at 13:38:43 (PDT)

Hello Mike.....Thanks for another great pictures and christmas...Just returned again from Florida into these beautiful mountains....Keep all the lovely pictures and comments coming...TGhanks and more thanks...Be safe...Richard
Bea/Dick Doviken
Maggie Valley, NC USA - Thursday, June 10, 2004 at 19:08:16 (PDT)

Hello neighbor. Just thought I would make my yearly contribution to the guestbook. Thanks to your webcam, we can get an idea what the weather is like at our place. We sure appreciate you having and sharing it. Hope all is well!
John Lee
Arlington, TX USA - Friday, April 30, 2004 at 08:03:49 (PDT)

Love your weather info:)
Gordon Small
Waynesville, NC USA - Sunday, April 04, 2004 at 14:15:12 (PDT)

my friend has purchased land here and I wanted to see what your community looked like
susan soderblom
white lake, ny USA - Friday, March 05, 2004 at 13:51:57 (PST)

WOW... your home is beautiful!! i was searching for pics of wet dogs when i happened across your puppies in a stream, and i'm so glad i stopped to check out more pics!! thanks for taking the time to share such beauty w/ those of us who don't get to experience it every day!! :)
mina
IN USA - Friday, February 20, 2004 at 14:00:05 (PST)

Thanks for the weather report. We have a place near Patch Max and we like to know what the weather looks like during the week. We try to come up on the weekends and stay at our Ranch, where our life gets more enriched.
Joyce and Russ Walden
Moore, SC USA - Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 17:30:04 (PST)

Hey Mike, I really enjoy viewing your site. Alot of the pictures I recognize. You have a beautiful home and your dogs are great. Thanks for your effort for others to enjoy.
Larry
Canton, NC USA - Friday, February 13, 2004 at 11:19:12 (PST)

Hi Mike--love your site---you are living my dream! My mother's people (Deaver, Miller and Kuykendall) have all brought me back here. What that means is that after many years of family history research, I stumbled across two historians who have asked me to write a book on a Revolutionary War General from NC. I'm selling my house in S.C. and looking for a place in Haywood County. Is there land for sale where you are? Email me back if you would. nadiawon@nadia.net. Have a look at my website if you want. http://www.nadia.net see ya
Nadia
Bethel, USA - Saturday, February 07, 2004 at 16:54:23 (PST)

Loved the Christmas photos! Want to show them to my sister Vicki. Just checking the weather in your neck of the woods.
Sharon E.
Waynesville, NC USA - Thursday, February 05, 2004 at 07:11:22 (PST)

The view from my mac is a grey office panel so looking at the current view from purchase knob kept me sane for almost half a minute... long enough to jot a line to ya.
Dave
Greer, SC USA - Tuesday, February 03, 2004 at 10:56:01 (PST)

Thank you so much for the intimate view into your life, yourself. I thought I was a people-person! You're an interesting man with talant. Thank you for sharing your gifts the way you do. We appreciate you. God Bless You. Comments from a friend of Barbie D.; your part-of-the-year neighbor
Robin
Palm Bay, FL USA - Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 08:14:09 (PST)

Hello Mike ... Just wanted to say that you have a BEAUTIFUL place !!!!!!!!!! I would love to have something like that just to go and " get away " .. Must really be something living there ALL the time !!!! I looked everywhere on here and never seen where you were having us all over for dinner !!!! ha ha ... you have done a wonderful job with your site ... It will be on my favorites list , I 'm looking forward to seeing more ...
Dana Ricker Moore "AKA Kenny's Cuz "
Decatur, TN USA - Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 20:56:28 (PST)

Mike, The beauty of your home and the surrounding countryside is truly awesome. You are living the life that most of us only dream of. Thank you for the pleasure I've received from looking at your wonderful pictures. I've truly enjoyed them and will be sure to check back to see what new ones you post.
Anita B.
Benton, AR USA - Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 17:59:08 (PST)

I just wanted to thank you for sharing these pictures with everyone on the internet. Its such an intimate glimpse around your life to do such a thing. Its nice to see someone who stops and takes in snapshots of lifes beautiful gifts that literally crop up on the sides of mountains. Its a fantastic way of enjoying the same beauty that you do, without thousands of visiting feet wearing paths and building parking lots over your mountain laurel. Take care of yourself and that beautiful mountain. Thank you again. :)
Abigail
Memphis, Tn USA - Monday, January 12, 2004 at 01:03:08 (PST)

Mike, finally got to see your site. It is a beautiful place. Kenny told me to visit it a long time ago...I finally made it. Hope you and the dogs are doing well.
Dianna Ghorley
Decatur, Tn USA - Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 23:20:08 (PST)

Beautiful Pictures I'd love to see snow. Beatiful view.
Myrna Silvas
West Palm Beach, FL USA - Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 06:29:00 (PST)

Verry Nice.
daniel o`brien
jacksonville, fl USA - Thursday, January 08, 2004 at 17:19:44 (PST)

how delighted i was to be able to see what is going on up there, i have property in sacred cove and the weather for there comes out of clyde/ashville - wow this is great to really know what is going on - thanks
bonnie alonzo
slidell, la USA - Wednesday, January 07, 2004 at 11:52:16 (PST)

Merry Christmas Mike.
John and Tina Lee
Arlington, TX USA - Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 03:28:44 (PST)

What a beautiful place you have up there. I'll be visiting my mother and stepfather there as soon as their cabin is completed. Hello to the Baxters and the Northies (sp?). Thank you for keeping me updated with the conditions of your enchanted mountaintop.
Danny Simonton
Orlando, FL USA - Saturday, December 13, 2003 at 08:41:34 (PST)

Hey Mike! It's one of your favorite cousins! Ha! Ha! I go to your weather page almost daily. It's neat to see the weather contrast from there to here. Makes me long for my beloved mountains. Eventhough I can see a small mountain just to my North it's just a molehill compared to our home mountains. I enjoy seeing your pictures and the pups! Hope to see you on December 20. P.S. I am telecommuting again myself. Vicki
Vicki Sprouse
Charlotte, NC USA - Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 09:23:17 (PST)

HI!!!! I am going to meet you! I am comming to North Carolina with your friends the Kobyljanecs! I am friends with Chrissy! I like your pictures, and your dogs are beautiful!!!!!!! I can't wait to meet you this weekend!
Kelly
Aurora, OH USA - Tuesday, October 07, 2003 at 12:59:28 (PDT)

Mike Howdy, I'm a good friend of Bill Fieldings, your neighbor from Florida(by way of NJ)Anyway, lovely pictures of your place. My wife & I are contemplating moving to NC (daughter live in Charlotte) not real soon but would like to buy a small piece of property in the Asheville area. If you ever see anything that's a good deal, please let me know. I don't want alot of land, small and nice, with utilities access, not too far in the woods, would like some civilization around. Keep me in mind. Thanks Dave Phone: 732-335-2578 email: david.bronson@iff.com
David Bronson
Island Heights, nj USA - Thursday, August 21, 2003 at 11:11:11 (PDT)

I loved your photos. Nature is so beautiful isn't it. Peaceful, quite and then you know there is a God. Thanks!
Carol Mignon
Jacksonville, FL USA - Monday, August 04, 2003 at 15:48:42 (PDT)

Hello Mike, thanks again for taking time to speak with me the other day. I hope you are feeling better and am sorry I woke you when I stopped by. I brought my wife past your place and she liked it as much as I did. Anyway, thanks again for being so nice under the circumstances and I hope someday to return the hospitality. Your neighbor, John Lee
John Lee
Arlington, TX USA - Sunday, July 06, 2003 at 11:35:02 (PDT)

Wayne Nichols sent me this I enjoyed the pictures
Mike Singleton
Canton, nc USA - Tuesday, July 01, 2003 at 13:02:54 (PDT)

Got to see your place while we were visiting Tom & Dawn Ford this past week. It is beautiful. That wasn't you on the mower was it? It was a little rainy so we didn't get to see as much as we wanted. Maybe we'll get back there soon. Love your site!!
Pam
Port St. Joe, FL USA - Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 09:38:44 (PDT)

Love your site
kenny ricker
tenmile, tn USA - Friday, June 20, 2003 at 18:57:30 (PDT)

Pretty dogs you have. I have some similiar ones but they're not purebred but my pet pig is! We're across the hills from you a little ways in TN.
larry walters
Greeneville, TN USA - Thursday, June 05, 2003 at 03:32:09 (PDT)

I just returned to the web and your web site after almost a year ....The pictures and your comentary are great and I enjoy every one each season.....Keep them coming...Thanks so much...friends Bea/Dick
Dick/Bea Doviken <meadowsnfields@yahoo.com>
Maggie Valley, No Carolina USA - Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 06:51:17 (PDT)

Thank you for the beautiful pictures. A friend of ours is letting us use her home up in the mountain in July and your pictures make us want to visit sooner. Thank you.
Joe & Kim Sargent
Palm Bay, FL USA - Monday, May 12, 2003 at 16:31:07 (PDT)

We have followed the raising of the old barn, the construction of your log cabin, and continue to enjoy your updated photogaphs. We are regular visitors to your excellent weather station as we hike the A.T. occasionally from I-40 to Hot Springs and rely on your temperature and precipitation data. We love that area and it is obvious you do also. Thank you!
William Dixon, Capt. USN Retired
Balsam, NC USA - Tuesday, May 06, 2003 at 07:18:48 (PDT)

I found your site when I did a search for wild violets. I love the pictures. You live in a very beautiful area. I will check back to view more pictures regularly! I have a few pictures of flowers on my website but nothing like yours. Thanks for sharing.
Barb
Concordia, MO USA - Thursday, May 01, 2003 at 16:29:05 (PDT)

I enjoy the pictures of the ranch. Kenny always tell us about how beautiful it is in the winter time. Well really all the time. It is really pretty. Susie
susie cook
Athens, tn USA - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 17:48:39 (PDT)

Thanks Mike for showing us your pictures we check all of them out. We think what you have is great and we know you are happy there. Mike e-mail us back and let me know you got this. OK
Dennis & Mary Setser
Canton, NC USA - Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 19:02:50 (PDT)

My Brother Fred Kepler gave Your web site he has built about 5 miles From your house I hope to meet you some time Leo Kepler
Leo Kepler
northumberland, pa USA - Friday, April 25, 2003 at 08:47:43 (PDT)

The website and pictures are absolutely great--I look at least once a day to see if anything new has been added and check out the weather at CSR. Thanks Mike for taking the time to share.
Dan and Elaine Dillon
Montgomery, AL USA - Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 07:17:41 (PDT)

Hi Mike: Thanks so much for letting us share the ranch with you through all your beautiful pictures! Marty and I pull up your website at least once or twice a day to dream of the day we'll actually get to live there also!! It's so nice to see someone who loves and cares for their dogs in the way that you do. They are lucky little dogs to live in such a special place. Take care, Susan and Marty
Susan and Marty Mahrt
Las Vegas, NV USA - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 11:41:30 (PDT)

Michael you are truly insirational.
Marc Hill
Asheville, NC USA - Friday, April 18, 2003 at 17:25:35 (PDT)

Hello. Appreciate the chance to tell you how much I enjoy your site..My Son and Daughter in Law own property at the ranch are going to start construction soon. Hope to meet you sometime soon.
Thomas R Baxter
Russell, Pa USA - Friday, April 18, 2003 at 06:50:31 (PDT)

My sister and brother-in-law own a lot at Cold Springs Ranch - haven't built on it yet. I enjoy your pictures of the beauty of the area where they will someday live. I especially enjoy your comments about the wildlife in the area and also your dogs. I am an animal lover, too. :)
Debbie King
Phenix City, AL USA - Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 11:38:48 (PDT)

Just wanted to be the first, in my own Guestbook!
Actually, I'm just testing it.
Mike Miller
Waynesville, NC USA - Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:34:45 (PDT)