A slight delay in our "big announcement"

You have no idea how much it pains me to write this message, but we've decided we need to delay our big announcement for a couple of weeks. If you go back through the messages, you'll find that the reason for all these changes we're planning is because we're refinancing our Gatlinburg cabins. Our bank has told us that our loan is approved. But they just can't seem to get it all together and get it done. We don't want to go ahead with ALL our plans until we know for sure that everything is in place.

So, for several reasons, we're pushing back our big announcement until June 15. There's more to it than the bank situation. Part of it deals with setting up a new room at Mountain Tower, which we expected to get done this week. But (and this is good news) the cabin has been rented solid - so we can't get in until June 8. Also, part of it deals with work that Angie is doing on our new Web site - and she has been extremely busy.

Please stay tuned - and thanks for your patience. I think we can be ready by June 15.