Dock Tales Part 16 • View Series Now that we could park and walk to our dock, it was time to invest in landscaping.
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Dock Tales Part 15 • View SeriesAfter two years of building the driveway, erecting the shed, planting trees, cleaning debris and positioning a used dock, I looked forward to inviting friends over.
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Dock Tales Part 14 • View Series When I first walked the 800 feet of Lake James shoreline I was about to buy in the one-day sale, I kept kicking up all kinds of broken bottles, empty gas containers and other trash left by previous visitors.
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Dock Tales Part 13 • View seriesI was at first enchanted by English Ivy that covered my forest.
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Dock Tales Part 12 • View seriesWith the dock and access to it completed, it was time to share it with family.
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Dock Tales, Part 11 When Bennick Grading finished the small gravel car path to a flat spot above my dock, I knew what I needed to do next: buy a bunch of stuff – primarily tents, floats and landscaping tools.
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When our dock was ready, my next challenge was developing access.
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When Tommy’s crew said the dock was ready, my son Thomas and his buddies beat me to it, camping there before heading into Linville Gorge.
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Dock Tales Part 8 Buying a used dock means you don’t control your timetable.
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I’ve got a well-deserved reputation for being thrifty.
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Until I was lured into buying lake property at the one-day sale, my wife and I had agreed we’d never own a second home.
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Dock Tales, Part 5Leaving the Realtors’ tent in which I’d contracted to a two-week cash close, I thought it’d be prudent to take a second more deliberate look.