Translation help, please - Highland Haven

**SPS tools** · 26th August 15, 12:06 PM

I've acquired some property in the mountains near the WY border, about 70mi NNW of Ft. Collins, CO. I've been searching for a name for the place and finally settled on "Highland Haven". It truly is a restful place, away from the bustle of the city and the heat of the plains. My next project is to carve a sign, but I want it to be in Scottish Gaelic.

What I've come up with from various Internet sources is: Gaidhealtachd Calachan

Hopefully, the sign will also include my clan badges and a stag. There are LOTS of deer roaming the property.

TYIA - Steve

**Dughlas mor** · 27th August 15, 08:15 AM

Steve, I know someone will be along to answer your query before long. Just wanted to congratulate you on the acquisition of your "haven." It sounds very nice. I hope you will share a photo of the sign when it is completed, and maybe one or two of the haven as well.

Doug

**SPS tools** · 27th August 15, 08:56 AM

Thank you, Dughlas.
I started working part-time for the HOA during the summer in `03. They provided a campsite as part of my wages. I liked the area & the people. Always wanted to buy a place up there. In `09 my Mom died and I took some of what she left me to buy an acre. It had a septic vault, but no water or power. But I didn't get to spend much time up there; health issues, both mine & the wife's, kept us pretty close to town. I started going back up last year, but just day trips. My trailer was a tad large for the curved driveway. But then I noticed that the lot (another acre) next door was for sale. It had power, a well, a complete septic system w/leach field, and a straight drive way. So I bought it!
I took the trailer up in late May and parked it. After some health issues cleared, I've been up there most weekends. Painting sheds, clearing brush, basically improving the new lot. I still have over two dozen major trees to fell; the mountain pine beetle devastation has been terrible. But the views are fantastic as I have a few major rock outcrops to sit upon and contemplate my navel (with a cigar & Scotch, of course).

**Dughlas mor** · 27th August 15, 09:30 AM

Ah, it sounds positively idyllic. Too bad about the pine beetles, they are causing a lot of destruction in a lot of places. I hope you will be there in the coming (fast) Autumn, the best time to be in the mountains.

**Grizzled Ian** · 27th August 15, 03:03 PM

SPS, welcome to the forum. It seems to me you have a pretty agreeable situation for the future, and I wish you joy of it, although I am sorry you can't share it with your late wife.

Could I ask for a translation from you please? With your background, TLA's (and other-number acronyms) are almost a way of life, and there is nothing wrong with them when their meaning is self-evident. I am guessing that TYIA means 'thank you in advance', but could you help me out with HOA please?

Thank you,

**SPS tools** · 27th August 15, 06:43 PM

Ian,
You are correct. TYIA or sometimes simply TYA is 'Thank You in Advance.'

HOA => Home Owners' Association This is the governing body for a condo association or covenant controlled community.
Here in the States most neighborhood developments and many condominium complexes (apartment buildings, but owner occupied) have these associations to control the populous and provide varying levels of maintenance. Think of it as a quasi-government slightly below village. I'm not sure if you have those, or what you call them if you do, Down Under.

In the case of Crystal Lakes we have about 1600 lots varying from 0.5acre (0.2 hectare) to 30acre (12 hectare) on 4800 acres (7.5 square miles, or ~1900 hectares) with 85 miles (136km) of private, dirt roads, several structures, and 6 dams to maintain. I was part of the road crew, the paint crew, and made sure the outhouses (12 of them) were sweet smelling once a week. About half of those lots have homes or cabins on them, and about half of the homes are occupied year round. For most of us it's a weekend or summer time retreat.

**RSHAW** · 27th August 15, 07:26 PM

Could be Home Owner's Association.

**Roderick Powell** · 10th September 15, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Grizzled Ian

SPS, welcome to the forum. It seems to me you have a pretty agreeable situation for the future, and I wish you joy of it, although I am sorry you can't share it with your late wife.

Could I ask for a translation from you please? With your background, TLA's (and other-number acronyms) are almost a way of life, and there is nothing wrong with them when their meaning is self-evident. I am guessing that TYIA means 'thank you in advance', but could you help me out with HOA please?

Thank you,

Bill, I like your Philosophy. I moved to Cornwall two years ago and wear the Kilt every day, the Way my friends and I wore it to the local Caledonian Society for thirty years.Every one had their strange variations of the form which we considered correct. The bottom line is that I do my best to look Smart. Had Two separate chats with ladies in street meetings a quarter of an hour apart. " my, you look smart, I love to see the Kilt.". One Lady spoke of the Clan Kilt her father bought for Dancing,

The other spoke of Inverness ,her home town, which she left many years ago. She was delighted when I told her the kilt I was wearing a Duncan Chishom Kilt From Hector Russell House In Inverness and I had been wearing this kilt for thirty five years and it was my best kilt as I wear the kilt full time in Cornwall.

You know Bill, I Have to look smart so I do not let the side down.

As I look as if I know what I am doing and am not part of a curcus ,ladys and gentlemen are polite,and I learn a lot about Family Migration passing through Cornwall...........Thanks for your Support......................Roderick