Good Tea. Nice House. Getting ready for the Sandy Mountain Festival!

The town of Sandy is gearing up for their famous Mountain Festival. It starts with a parade Thursday evening, there is a carnival as well as a artisans’ area with music on two stages. None of us has ever been to the festival, so we're excited to see what happens!

One of the great things about the festival this year is that their parade kickoff, this Thursday evening, will be going down Proctor, the street Chariteas is on. We are using this opportunity to introduce Chariteas to the town and all the excited parade goers.

Since the tea shop isn't ready to open, we'll be setting up on the front porch, showcasing a couple of Charity’s iced tea creations (yummy!) As a special thanks from us, people who purchase a cup of iced tea will receive our ‘Grand Opening Coupon'. Our first discount ever!!! We'll only have a limited supply, so it'll be first come first serve. We’ve got a big poster being made for the event, and we’re going to set up Adirondack chairs on the porch. Friends and family will be dropping to show their support and enjoy the parade &mdash it looks as if we’re going to have a whole lot of fun!

We’ve been moving quickly to get Chariteas’ facelift done before the parade and the arrival of the festive partiers! Last week we painted most of the exterior; it is such a pretty yellow! We’ve primed most of the trim. We’re still deciding on how to paint it, there are so many fun options! The wild garden has been trimmed to the ground, to give us room to install our privacy fence. This week, James has set up the fence and, after brainstorming with Team Chariteas, he came up with a very creative look. We’re looking forward to our unique fence!

What’s fascinating about the Mountain Fest parade is that, we’re still two days away from it and yet people are already marking off their seating areas on sidewalks up and down the parade route. I’ve never seen such trust-that your neighbors won’t steal your chairs-and such excitement for a parade! To help out our neighbors, Romina has cleared out the overgrown plots that make up our sidewalk. It’s really nice to be able to see the main road!

If you live in the area, we really hope you’ll come to the parade! Be sure to drop by and visit us. We also hope you enjoy the Mountain Fest, we’ll be poking around and enjoying the experience. For more information please check out the link below.

Parade

Sandy Mountain Festival