About Thime
Built from a lifetime of looking after people
Thime grew from a simple belief: the way we care for people matters. It is shaped by family, Southern hospitality, and more than thirty years spent learning that the smallest details are often the ones people remember most.
The founder
Dawn McCall
My first lessons in hospitality came from home.
My mother was never one for a house full of guests, but my grandmother cherished it. She could stand over the stove with one hand on her hip and the other stirring a big pot of something, then sit down between stirs and somehow make a homemade cake with the biggest spoon I had ever seen. At dinner, she was happiest watching everybody eat, talk, and laugh. I can still hear her saying, “Come on in this house, gal. Let me show you how to make this or that.”
My father taught me a different kind of care. Around home, people know him as the Vineman. For more than forty years, he has handcrafted baskets from wisteria and kudzu vines. People recognize his work without being told who made it. He never needed to advertise it. He simply chose to Just Follow the Vine, doing the work carefully and doing it well.
Those lessons followed me into hospitality and stayed with me for more than thirty years, from pantry cook to Catering Director at Troy, Tuskegee, and Hampton Universities. I learned that food has a way of bringing people together, but the real gift was never just what was on the table. It was how people felt around it.
Thime grew from that same kind of care. The care that goes into preparing a home before a family arrives, marking a closing beautifully, or simply making sure someone has one less thing waiting for them at the end of the day.
That is the hospitality I know. And that is the hospitality Thime was built to carry forward.
The measure of this work is not what you notice. It is everything you never have to think about again.
The standard we keep
What we bring to every relationship
Discretion Comes First
What we learn about your home, family, schedule, or business stays with us. Trust is part of the relationship from the very beginning.
Care Should Deepen With Time
The longer we work together, the less you should have to explain. We remember how you live, what you prefer, and the small things that make life easier.
Southern Hospitality, Done Well
Southern hospitality, done well, is remembering what matters, showing up when you say you will, following through, and making people feel cared for without making a production of it.
Decisions Deserve Time
The beginning of a good working relationship should feel considered, not hurried. We will answer your questions, be clear about what Thime can offer, and give you the space to decide whether the relationship feels right.
What it adds up to
A day taken in pieces
A full life is rarely taken over by one enormous thing. It is the accumulation of smaller ones, none of them difficult on its own, all of them asking for a piece of the day.
A firm that hands its clients to us hands over that accumulation. It does not come back to them.
Thime exists for those in-between responsibilities, the ones that do not need more of your attention, only someone trusted to carry them well.
Welcome home
Auburn and the corridor around it
Thime is rooted in Auburn and works throughout Opelika, Montgomery, Lake Martin, and the communities that connect them. This is a region we know well, from the people who keep a home running to the places families return to year after year.
And when life extends beyond the corridor, our care can extend with it. We approach every new place with the same standard: learn it properly, build the right relationships, and never pretend to know what we have not yet earned.
Begin the relationship
An unhurried conversation.
Tell us about your firm and the people you look after. We would be glad to sit down with you and learn what would make their days a little easier.
Accounts are opened by invitation. If we have already spoken, write to us and we will send yours.