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Posted on Friday, February 02, 2007
Overnight Snow Hits the Farm
We woke up this morning and found that overnight it had snowed. The snow
had covered the ground and was still coming down lightly. I talked
Stacey into taking an early ride with me in the Mule. Cooter was eager
to run along. The Mule has a diesel motor with a switch that heats up
the fuel for ignition that makes it easy to start on cold mornings. It
fired right up and we drove out of the upper barn and headed around the
'horse shoe' above the hay shed, then down towards the creek.
As we came back up to the road, Cooter was laying down by the pull
off near the edge of the road waiting on us. The snow doesn't seem to
bother him at all. He just loves to run and play when we come outside.
We rode down the road past the barren mum patch and turned in Marshall
Jones Road and crossed the creek. We drove back past Regina's old house
to the old barn in the clearing. I stepped out of the Mule and took a
couple of pictures of the barn and Stacey driving the Mule.
Stacey drove us out of the 'holler' and around the hay fields, then
back across the creek and up the road to the house. Cooter cut off
through the yard and beat us home.
Stacey parked the Mule in the back of the barn and we headed in the
house. Stacey said her hands were the only thing cold on her. The gloves
she was wearing were work gloves and not the kind to help keep her hands
warm. The temperature was around 30 degrees. Although the ground is
cold, I don't expect the snow to last long.
Posted on Saturday, February 03, 2007
Pauline & Brent Visit
Pauline and Brent came over Friday evening and we went to Albany to eat.
After returning to the house, we found that the dogs had been sick.
There was a mess in the living room on both couches, in the floor, on
the pillows and in the front bedroom also. Linda and Pauline were amazed
that the little dogs could make such a big mess.
Saturday morning,
Linda made 'french toast' for breakfast, then Brent and I went in the
attic and checked out what we needed to move the TV in the living room
to a different wall. Pauline was working on Stacey's appearance while
Linda cleaned up the breakfast mess. We decided to go shopping for baby
clothes, so we loaded in the HHR and headed to Columbia and parked on
the Courthouse Square. Linda and Pauline led the way into the shops on
the square and were checking out baby clothes. After looking through
four shops we jumped back in the car and went to a Mexican restaurant
and had lunch. Eating lunch went well and we continued our trip north on
55 to Campbellsville. Linda picked out a few more 'baby shops' to look
through, then we stopped and walked through the Peddlers' Mall. We all
found something to buy in there and took our articles to the checkout
and paid. We drove over to Tractor Supply, went in and then to Goody's.
Brent dashed in to Lowe's for a cable splitter and then we drove through
Sonic for shakes and Sonic Blasters for the ride home. We drove in the
garage at home and this time there were no problems from the dogs. I lit
a fire in the wood stove and then Brent and I had to go to the Movie
Shack for a pack of coaxial cable. The stuff we had bought was the wrong
size to work with the cable ends I had. We bought the 25 foot package
and then went home and installed it. Linda made brownies while Brent and
I were fixing the TV hookup.Things worked out great and the picture on
the TV was good, so Stacey immediately began watching a Pacer game on
the TV. We ate those brownies as we watched the game.
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Cold Weather
The last few days have been cold for KY. The temperature has dipped to
15 degrees during the nights, but returned to the mid 30s during the
days. The water in the pond is frozen, not real thick, maybe a half
inch, but the water in the creek has not frozen.
The snow has melted everywhere except in the shadows created by the hills. We
have still been staying inside during the day and burning wood in the
stove instead of using the heat pump. I make a trip with the Mule to the
hay shed and bring a load of wood to the back porch to keep the stack
filled every week or two. Linda has been burning as much as she wants to
keep the temperature in the house around 75 to 77 degrees. Brent called
and told Linda that he went with Pauline to her doctor's appointment.
Brent said that she had another sonogram and they were told they are
having a baby girl.
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007
Shopping in Tompkinsville & Basketball
I mentioned to Linda that I wanted to go to Tompkinsville, so Stacey and
Linda got ready and we left in the HHR armed with the laptop and the GPS
running. I told them we were going the backway through the country
roads. We traveled through some areas of the county that none of us had
ever been through. The roads kept getting smaller and soon we were on a
one lane road that went through a creek for about 300 feet. Linda said
she understood why they call school off when there is a little bit of
snow as we were going up and down the one lane roads. It was like a
logging trail they had paved. It is amazing how much open land there is
in Cumberland County. The GPS took us directly to Grandview Welding &
Equipment Sales. They had several
FARMTRAC tractors and bush hogs, but not the two models that I was
interested in seeing. They quoted me a price about a thousand dollars
higher than the dealership in Bowling Green had quoted. I mentioned that
to them, but they didn't want to come down on their price, so I said
thanks and we left. I'm scheduled to go on a bus trip to the Farm
Implement Show in Louisville next week, so I can check prices while I'm
there. We went into Tompkinsville and ate lunch at a McDonalds, then
drove to the Wal-Mart and did our grocery shopping. On the return trip,
we took the main roads. Linda fixed a big pot of homemade vegetable soup
in the slow cooker while we went to Burkesville to watch the high school
basketball games.
The boys game was first and already under way when we walked in and
found seats on the visitors side of the gym. That was ok, because the CC
boys were taking a beating without the hope of pulling out a win.
Franklin Simpson ended up winning the game by about 15 points.
The girls game was next, and it didn't take long before the CC girls
were falling behind, like 2 seconds into the game. Franklin Simpson had
a tip off play that worked to perfection. CC girls could never get back
on defense quick enough, the FS girls would beat them down the floor and
were shooting layups most of the game. It's hard to beat a team that
shoots 80% of their shots as layups. Needless to say, CC never got
closer than 8 points in the second half. Since I had 'made' a parking
place when we arrived, I thought we should get out of the way before
everyone decided to leave, so we left a few minutes before the game was
over. We heard the end of the game on the local radio station as we
drove home. The CC girls lost by 12 points, but it was never a close
game.
Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007
Baby Clothes
Saturday
After finding out they were going to have a baby girl
on Monday, Pauline and Brent returned to the farm on Saturday morning
for more shopping. Linda had already went up on Jone's Ridge to buy a
stroller and other things before P&B arrived with their dogs. Shortly
after they came in, Linda returned with the HHR nearly full of baby
stuff. They checked out the stuff and thought it was a pretty good deal,
so that started things off. After a little while, we loaded the stuff in
their car and we piled in the HHR and headed to Columbia. We made two
stops in Columbia, then headed north on 55 and stopped just outside of
Columbia to eat lunch at a family restaurant. We had never ate there,
the service was good and the food was good too. We continued to
Campbellsville and stopped at a few consignment shops. Every place we
stopped, Pauline or Linda carried out bags with baby clothes in them. We
looked around town a little for any place we had missed then headed
home. Back at the farm, Pauline immediately had to take a nap, while
Linda put the clothes on hangers and hung them on the dividing wall
between our entry and dinning area.
Pauline woke up and looked at all the clothes and said she liked
what Linda had done and also liked all the clothes. I baked a cake and
we had cake and ice cream later that evening.
Sunday
I
fixed us a sausage and egg scramble for breakfast with biscuits before
we went outside for a walk around the pond and over by the hay shed with
the dogs. I picked up a couple of tools at the shed and Brent and I
installed a cabinet that Bill Pollick had gave us a few years ago. Linda
wanted it in our master bathroom to use as a medicine cabinet and it was
the perfect size for that purpose. We had never had a good place to put
it before, so it had set in the little house for 4 or 5 years.
Afterwards, Linda fixed us ham and cheese sandwiches with vegetable soup
for lunch. Later, Pauline and Brent packed up their baby clothes, their
dogs and the rest of their stuff and headed home around 3:30 PM.
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007
Gound Breaking
Linda and I had talked about a new storage building, so I began leveling
a spot with the tractor. First I had to move four large cement tiles,
the grader box and the disk that I had setting in the way. That took
about a half hour, then I started using the tractor's scoop to cut in
the gradual slope. I moved the dirt towards the ditch and will try to
use most of it to level the ground in front of the building once it is
set in place.
I worked till almost 11:30 AM and then went to the creek and drove
the tractor through the water to wash most of the mud and dirt off. I
parked the tractor in the hay shed and walked to the house, then took a
shower while Linda called Pizza Hut and ordered a pizza. We drove the
HHR to town and ate, then went to Marrowbone and stopped at Esh's place.
I stepped out of the car and went in the building to find the people
inside playing volleyball. That was not what I expected, I figured they
would be building barns. I talked to Esh about building a yard barn for
us. Linda and I had looked at the models when we stopped a few days
before. Esh said he could put the double doors in the end like we
wanted. I ordered a 14' by 24' vinyl sided model, paid $100 for a down
payment and then left. When we made it back to the farm, Linda had to
work at the day care, so she left for there a little after 2 PM. I went
back and worked a little longer on leveling the dirt. I'm glad I had
talked to Esh before finishing the leveling job. I had planned on
digging trenches and putting in gravel with cement blocks for the
foundation, but he told me that wouldn't work because the delivery
process would mess that up. He said to just spread a layer of gravel and
have some 4" thick solid cement blocks for the delivery guy to use to
set the building on.
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day
Cold weather is back at the farm. We had a small amount of rain Tuesday,
maybe a half inch during the day and evening. The light rain changed to
a light dusting of snow overnight with just barely enough to be visible
when daylight arrived. We watched a couple of movies during the day and
then later in the evening, Stacey, Linda and I went to TN to eat at the
Farmhouse restaurant. Below, I've quoted the newest information about
Wolf Creek Dam.
Worst Fears May Be
Realized With Wolf Creek Dam
Lake Cumberland, KY (WVLT) - The Army Corps of Engineers announced
Wednesday they may have to lower Lake Cumberland an additional 30 feet
before the end of the year because of the fears of structural failure at
the Wolf Creek Dam. State and local officials say that would put
communities in the area without water and force rolling blackouts.
Kentucky officials estimate as many as 200,000 homes and businesses
including hospitals and nursing homes could be affected.
Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher says something needs to be done. “This will
be a real problem," Governor Fletcher says. "We need to figure out how
to solve it soon." The Corps does have some plans in the case the water
level is lowered including extending water pipes. WVLT Volunteer TV News
and its sister station, WKYT, in Lexington, KY broke the news of fears
of seepage at the Wolf Creek Dam in 2006. Months later, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers acknowledged the dangers outlined in the initial reports.
Officials believe that if significant pressure is not taken off of the dam, a
structural failure could occur. The latest news about having to lower
the lake level an additional 30 feet, according to sources close to the
story, is indicative of the gravity of the situation.
Also following the reports last year by WKYT-TV and WVLT-TV, state officials
in Kentucky and Tennessee initiated meeting with local disaster and
emergency officials in Cumberland River communities to prepare them in
the event of a catastrophic dam collapse. Bill Purcell, the Mayor of
Nashville, said he had been briefed on what would happen to his city
downstream of Wolf Creek Dam. At the time, Purcell said his city would
look like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina should the dam burst.
Read article
Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007
Farm Machinery Show
Steve Riddle picked me up at 7 AM and we drove to town and parked at the
Bank of Cumberland. The bus was waiting with a few people already on
board. We got on and picked our seats. A few minutes later, the bus
rolled out of the parking lot and headed for Columbia to pick up the
rest of the farmers waiting at the
First National Bank of Columbia. We picked up the rest of the farmers and
headed north towards Campbellsville, on through towards Elizabethtown
and onto I-65 to Louisville. During the ride, the bank employees passed
out donuts, pop, orange juice and breakfast biscuits. It was about 2
hours after we left that we pulled into the parking lot, unloaded and
walked inside.
There was every possible piece of farm machinery inside! Some of the
equipment was 60 feet wide and 30 feet tall. One combine would harvest
28 acres of corn per hour, I figured that would do both of my fields
across the creek in about an hour and a half. So, I could spend $180 K
and use it for a hour and a half a year, uhhh, that's not going to
happen. There were probably a thousand tractors from everywhere on the
planet, not just the USA. There were vendors selling ATVs, disks, plows,
bush hogs, hay rakes, round balers, square balers, combines, lawn
mowers, in other words, everything was there. So, that was the
description of the first building, and there were about six different
areas to walk through. Steve and I made it through several of the areas,
then ate a burger and fries for lunch, and continued on through the
rest. After finishing one round of all the areas, we headed back to the
entrance where we came in and continued looking at things we had missed
the first time through. We met up with the rest of the guys at 3 PM.
Then Bank President Ricki Huntsman called the bus driver and had the bus
pick us up at the door. We loaded on the bus and headed for home. On the
way home the bank employees passed out drinks and 'goody bags' and also
had drawings for 'door prizes'. The bus dropped off the farmers from
Columbia and continued to Burkesville and let us off right around 6 PM.
We jumped in Steve's truck for the quick ride on home.
My
compliments to the employees of the
Bank of Cumberland and
First National Bank of Columbia for arranging the trip. They did an
excellent job of planning and executing the bus trip.
Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007
Govenor Holds Meeting In Burkesville
I decided to attend a meeting in Burkesville that KY Govenor Ernie
Fletcher had called. KY Senate President David Williams was also in
attendance. I arrived early and picked a nice comfortable chair along
the edge of the room. People filed in and eventually filled the meeting
room with some standing along the walls.
The meeting began when the Govenor and Senator arrived. The Mayor of
Burkesville introduced Judge Tim Hicks, who spoke and listed several of
the things the Govenor had done to help the people of KY.
Judge Hicks then introduced Govenor Fletcher to the crowd, who responded with
a standing ovation.
The Govenor spoke for a while listing the state officials he had brought with
him and also discussed some of the planning they had already done. He
then introduced each person and they took the microphone and explained a
small part of their plans and how they were involved. I guess this took
about an hour to accomplish, then the Govenor spoke again and then
opened the meeting for questions and answers. The residents of
Burkesville were polite and were pleased that the Govenor had taken the
time to assemble the team and come to Burkesville to show their interest
in the problems with the Wolf Creek Dam. Of all the questions of the
evening, the one that got the most response from the crowd was about the
Govenor saying how they had opened an office in Sommerset. The question
was, "If the highest priority was public safety, why had they opened
their office in Somerset? That area is concerned with the economics of
lowering the water level in the lake, Burkesville will be underwater,
why not have an office in Burkesville?" The crowd laughed and clapped as
the Govenor bowed his head and chuckled. He then stated that they would
be 'Happy to open a satellite office in Burkesville.' The questions kept
coming and they answered most of the questions or will provide answers
after contacting the appropriate people.
Govenor Fletcher then introduced KY Senate President David Williams. Williams
made a few remarks and handed the microphone back to the Govenor who
thanked everyone for their participation. The crowd rose and applauded
and the meeting was over. Reporters interviewed several members of the
Govenor's assembled group as the crowd was leaving. The meeting had
lasted about two and a half hours.
Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007
Not Enough To Shovel
It was spitting snow this morning when daylight arrived. It has snowed
off and on most of the day and we have just stayed inside and burnt wood
in the stove while watching TV. Since we feel 'snowed in', Linda has
fixed breakfast and also a late lunch. If we still lived in IN we
wouldn't have noticed this amount of snow, we would have went to work
and went shopping or whatever we wanted to do, but down here it's
different. It's better to just sit by the fire and relax. Linda has been
working on decorations for the Homemakers' International Dinner that is
coming up. Stacey has been watching basketball games and she went to the
mailbox around 3 PM.
As you can probably tell by looking at the pictures, if the snow
gets much deeper I might have to sweep off the sidewalk, or I might just
wait for the sun to melt it off tomorrow. :-)
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Warmer Weather
The forecast this morning was for warmer weather today and predictions
of 65 degrees for Friday and Saturday. We were glad to hear that and
eager to get outside a little while. I took a Mule ride this morning and
the snow back in the 'holler' was beginning to melt and the water was
running in the streams.
We went to town for lunch and while we were gone, the guys from
Gaddie-Shamrock called wanting to deliver a load of gravel I had
ordered. I called them back and told them I was here, so bring it on
over. Mean while Linda wanted to mount a can crusher that we had bought
for $4.50 at the Peddler's Mall in Campbellsville, so we went to the
upper barn with a power driver in hand and put it on a post. I helped
Stacey setup her crushing operation while Linda pulled the tabs off the
cans. Once Stacey had the system down, I stepped back and watched her
work.
I kept an eye out for the dump truck and when they were coming up
the road, I drove the Mule down to the pull off and flagged them over. I
helped the driver watch for cars as he backed across the road and up
close to the hay shed. He dumped the load where I wanted it and stepped
out of the truck. I wrote a check for the load of gravel and we talked a
little bit about them hauling stone to Wolf Creek Dam and what was going
on over there, then he climbed back in the truck and headed back to the
quarry.
The snow was all gone and the ground was a little soggy, but there
was enough gravel under the area the truck drove on so that the ruts
weren't very deep. Maybe an inch or two at the worst. I'll have to wait
before I can spread any gravel for the storage shed, because I still
have some places that the dirt needs leveling and I can't do that as
long as the ground is wet. I went back to the barn and helped a little
bit with crushing. Stacey had crushed enough cans to fill a 55 gallon
garbage can. I pulled the full bag out of the garbage can and tied it at
the top, then put another can liner in the garbage can for more crushed
cans. Linda has been saving cans for some time, so I think Stacey will
have enough to keep her busy for a few days.
Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Soaking Wet
After an overnight rain, the ground outside was completely soaked. We decided to go to Glasgow since it was too wet to really do anything outside. We took the CK pickup truck and I dropped Stacey and Linda off just before pulling into the parking lot at Lee Brick and Block. They had seen a consignment shop and thought they could look around in there while I picked up some concrete blocks. I went inside and purchased 32 four inch thick solid blocks and 24 two inch solid blocks, then pulled to the storage yard and I helped the two yard men load the blocks in the back of the pickup. I returned to the consignment shop and picked up the girls. We went to a antique shop and looked around for a little bit, then over to Mancino's for some sandwiches. After lunch, we stopped at Wal-Mart, I stayed in the truck while Linda and Stacey went inside. They returned to the truck and we headed back home. A little after returning home, Linda, Stacey and I drove the Mule across the creek and we cut some cane for Linda to use as decorations at the Home Maker's Party. We went back to the house and then I parked the truck in the hay shed and unloaded the blocks while Stacey and Linda filled two five gallon buckets with creek gravel. Linda says the she will use the gravel to hold the cane upright at the party. Linda left for CPR training at the school at 4:30 PM and came home after 7 PM. Stacey and I watched a Pacer game.
Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007
Home Makers' International Dinner
I went to the hay shed and started the tractor and used it to continue
moving dirt for the new storage building. The ground was still a little
too wet, but I was able to make some progress. I've increased the size
and have the spot fairly level. The wind really helped dry the ground
quickly. I probably spent about an hour working there, then went down
and continued to clean out the ditch between the hay fields. I moved the
dirt into a place that the creek washes out when it gets big enough to
flow through the hay fields. I estimate that I'm half way back to the
hill. I work a little bit farther back each year, with the eventual
outcome being able to drive through the ditch instead of the hay fields.
I stopped to fill the tractor with fuel and Phil Garmon stopped and gave
me a check for the hay he cut last year. We talked a while and then
Linda, Stacey and I ate lunch. I continued the cleaning of the ditch
after lunch and then parked the tractor in the hay shed and drove the
truck to the house so Linda could load her stuff for the Home Makers'
Dinner. We put in the cane we had cut, the buckets of creek gravel, and
the decorations she had made and then we all went to the church and
helped setup their decorations. Once we were done, we returned home and
Linda fixed her dish to take. Linda dressed up in white slacks, sandals,
and a bright 'Hawaiian' style top, she braided her hair and had on big
hoop earrings when she left. Stacey and I stayed at home and watched TV
while Linda went to the dinner.
When Linda came home from the dinner she said they had over 200
people attend the dinner. At $5 per person, that will be at least $1,000
to add to the amount the Home Makers donate to kids graduating from high
school. Stacey found a Pacer game on TV and we had to watch.
Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007
Moving Gravel and Helping Our Neighbors
I left the house a little past 8:30 AM after eating the link sausages
and eggs that Linda fixed for breakfast. I used the tractor to scoop up
the gravel and move it to the spot I had leveled for the new storage
building. I would stop scooping gravel and use the hand rake to smooth
it out near the edges. I had a string level and raked the gravel by hand
according to the level line. I had scooped nearly all the 22 tons of
gravel and moved it when my neighbor, Steve Riddle, stopped and need
some help. He said he needed me to take my tractor up to his farm on
Jone's Ridge and help pull a truck out of his field. He said the guy was
spreading lime on his field and had become stuck. I filled up the
tractor with fuel, then drove to the house and told Linda and Stacey
where I was going. They decided to follow along in the truck. It
probably took over 20 minutes to drive the tractor to Nancy and Steve's
farm. I pulled through the gate and saw the truck about 200 yards from
their pole barn. I pulled the tractor up close and we worked out a plan
for pulling the truck out. Steve hooked his tractor to the truck and I
hooked my tractor to Steve's tractor. We tried pulling the truck out
several times.
Well, that didn't work! There was too much of a change in grade for
us to pull the truck forward because he had roughly 10 tons of lime on
the truck to be spread. We backed off and reevaluated the problem. It
was decided to pull the truck backwards since the incline was more
gradual than going forward. Well, that worked and with one pull we had
the truck free from the ruts he had dug. We unhooked the chains and he
took off and began spreading lime on the field. That only lasted about
two minutes till something broke on his truck. After looking under it
for a few minutes he pulled over and told Steve he had broke the short
drive shaft that drove the spreading mechanism. He would have to leave
and get it fixed and come back another day. I mentioned to Steve we
should use the backhoe on my tractor and dig up the broken water pipe
for his pole barn while I had the tractor up there at their farm. That
was OK with Steve, so I parked near the side of his pole barn and fired
up the backhoe. I dug gingerly, not wanting to damage his barn or damage
the water pipe any worse than already done. As I dug, I asked Steve to
poke down in the hole with a shovel, then I would scrape out more dirt,
while he continued poking around looking for the water pipe. He found
the pipe and I removed as much dirt as possible without breaking the
pipe. Steve hand dug underneath the pole barn until the pipe was
revealed. He turned on the water to see where the pipe was leaking. We
figured out that the pipe had to be removed from the concrete. We went
inside and pounded and hammered for nearly a half hour until the pipe
was free. We cut it loose and took a break for Steve to go get some pipe
coupling pieces at the hardware. Linda, Stacey and I went to town and
ate a quick lunch, then returned to Nancy and Steve's farm. We met them
on the road and then Steve and I proceeded to fix the pipe. After
replacing the pipe section and gluing it in place, we turned on the
water and checked our work. All was OK, no leaks. I used the tractor to
fill in the hole with the dirt as it began raining a little harder, then
headed for home. It was about 3:30 PM when I got home and Linda and
Stacey arrived home a little later as I was getting out of the shower. I
took a shower to clean up, but mostly to warm up my legs from the cold
rain on the ride home.
Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007
Gravel for Storage Shed Mostly Leveled
After the rain over the weekend, I was unable to use the tractor to move
any more gravel because the ground was too muddy. It was even hard to
walk to the spot I've been working on for the new storage shed. I had to
walk around the mud and into the gravel from the back.
I was able to use the hand rake and smooth the gravel to what
appeared as level. I was unable to use the string level because of the
mud at the edges. I will have to wait a few days and then string the
line and check the spot to see how well I did.
Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Road Trip to Lebanon
Linda had wanted to go to Lebanon, TN to see what the Classic Cars SE
business was like, so today, I looked up the address and programed it
into the Street Atlas GPS on our notebook PC. Stacey, Linda and I loaded
into the HHR and headed towards Burkesville and following the directions
on the PC. We took 61 south from Burkesville to TN and then 53 through
Celina and along the Cumberland River for 75 miles. We changed over to
US 70 and drove another 20 miles to almost Lebanon. The GPS told us we
were getting near Classic Cars SE, so we watched and sure enough there
was the shop. We pulled in and parked, then went inside. We were
surprised to have to pay $5 a person to go inside and look around. I
said, "I thought this was a car sales place?" The lady said it was that
and a 'museum' too, and they charged admission, but if we bought a car,
they would refund our ticket prices. I paid and we walked in and started
looking around. There were probably 40 cars inside a large building.
Almost all of the cars pictured above are for sale. They are fairly
nice cars, but not show cars, more of the daily driver type. We probably
looked around in there for 45 minutes or an hour, then back in the HHR
and drove to Applebee's for lunch. Linda had picked up a tourism booklet
when we left the car place and figured out that there were several
antique shops on the town square in Lebanon, so after eating we drove to
the square and parked. Stacey followed Linda and I followed them both
through the various shops.
There was a log cabin on the square that had an artesian well
flowing through the small space left for the old building.
There were quilt shops with lots of material and quilts inside.
There was one shop that must have had 200 stained glass windows
hanging from the ceiling. They also had antiques setting everywhere.
There were other shops that I didn't take pictures inside, that had been
there for a long time and had real old furniture and all kinds of old
odd things. We left Lebanon a little before dark and headed east on I-40
to Cookeville. Linda had me stop at a couple of places in Cookeville and
then we drove on home.
