New Favorite Show...

Canadian designer Sarah Richardson (Room Service) has a new show (new to me) on HGTV called Sarah's House. In this series, she bought an old farmhouse & remodeled it into a fabulous country retreat. The pace moves much faster than This Old House. I believe it is reruns now. Set your DVR!

Treme

Have you watched the new HBO series set in New Orleans after Katrina? It's called Treme after a neighborhood there. The focus is on musicians as they try to resume their lives. The show was created by David Simon, known for The Corner & The Wire.

A few personal observations: Everything was brown for a long time - not much green. The streets were not clear in many areas and there was NO POWER for much of Orleans Parish.

Warning: this is HBO so there is gratuitous bad language & nudity. The first episode must have set some sort of record for usage of a certain four-letter word.

The theme song by John Boutte is very catchy.

Blog Cabin 2008 in TENNESSEE!!!

While trying to stay warm this morning I was flipping channels & came across Blog Cabin on DIY Network. The current shows feature the 2008 Blog Cabin on Watts Bar Lake in the Lakefront Estates development near Spring City, TN. Viewers get to vote on many choices for the cabin. This one is more "fabulous dream home" and less "cabin", but it's fun to watch as the construction progresses. DIY does a sweepstakes to give away the cabin - the 2008 version was won by a woman from Baton Rouge, LA. The 2009 Blog Cabin will be built near Asheville, NC.