"Turkey Huntin' Opens Near Cascade Holler"

Spring turkey season is finally here in TN, with openin' day being last Saturday, went all last weekend and never got a thing, although I 

saw several and heard a few. Couldn't get'em to listen to me for some reason.

But this weekend has started out on a better note, saw 5 gobblers, 1 hen with a beard (rare) and 10 other hens, hit the call 1 time and had an Ol' Tom comin' right toward me, I waited til he was about 15 yards from me and blasted him, had him bagged by 7 AM, this fine Friday morning, he had a 10 1/2" beard and 1 1/4" spurs.  Good Luck to all other Gobbler hunters, nothing like takin' a big Ol' Tom.

Jammin' in the Holler

Our little town of Normandy in Bedford County Tn, hosted a concert by Country Music Artist Jamey Johnson on October 13, 2010.

The free concert was a fundraiser for the Normandy Volunteer Fire Department.

Normandy resident and business owner Nikki Mitchell is friends with Jamey and is one of the reasons Johnson agreed to perform here.

While in town Jamey was given a few tokens of appreciation, he was given a fireman's hat and was named honorary member of the Normandy Volunteer Fire Department and was also given some of Ol' George Dickel's Finest Sippin' Whisky by the Fire Department as well as by Lou, Dickel's own tour guide.

The concert was "awesome" and a total success with an estimated 3000+ in attendance, who knew Normandy could hold so many people.

Many Thanks go out to:

The Town of Normandy
The Normandy Volunteer Fire Department
The River Cafe
Jamey Johnson
Nikki Mitchell

And all those that made this a success!!!!!!!

Safe in the Holler!!!

Looks as tho the turkeys are

enjoying this sugar maple, thanks to the North

Carolina Red Cup Society...

A New Year

Hard to believe its already 16 days into 2010, nothing much happenin', with all the holidays and deer season behind us. Although there are a few deer still hangin' aound the distillery.




We have had several days of snow and really low temps (even the Dickel Lake froze over), everything is tryin' to unthaw including me...





But we are anticipating the spring arrival of turkey season the 1st of April. The gobblers are already rumblin' the holler and struttin' their stuff.

Christmas is the season for giving...

We always try to do our part in helping whenever we feel it is needed, not just at Christmas, but all year.

This Christmas we picked a neighboring family of 4, that we thought could use a little extra help, after several hospital stays and 2 small children. With both these factors we know it can be hard at this time of year.

On December 20th, another neighbor and myself paid this family a visit, I gave the mother & father a candy bouquet which held a card, in the card was cash and a gift card (thanks to the George Dickel Red Cup Society), the other neighbor gave the children gifts as well.

There were smiles and tears, happy tears of course.

Hope they Have a Very Merry Christmas!!!

The Best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.--Burton Hillis

Snow Dayz

Brrrrr....it's cold in the "holler", with temps being as low as 23 this past week.

On Saturday, December 5, 2009 at about 2:00 A.M., it started to snow (just a lite snow that is), but snowed until aound 6:00 A.M. Just enough for everything to be white. For the most part, it had melted off by afternoon.

But as of Sunday morning there was some snow still laying on the secluded hillsides, in our quaint "Cascade Hollow".

As the ol' folks in the "holler" used to say, "it's layin there waitin on some more".

Plaque Placement @ George Dickel Distillery