Kim and Kenny Visit

Friday evening, Kim and Kenny Bourke came down from IN to visit. We set and talked about what had been going on until bedtime.
Saturday morning Linda fixed us breakfast and then Kenny and I took a ride around the farm talking while we rode. I showed Kenny where I was cutting wood and the hay shed and where I was splitting the wood for next winter. We went back to the house and Linda took Kim a ride in the Mule. When the girls came back we walked up to the pond and Stacey fed the fish. A little after noon we decided to go eat. We loaded in our truck and I drove through Albany into TN and stopped at the Farm House. It is restaurant built with a log cabin type structure. We finished eating and drove towards Star Point Marina on Dale Hollow. We drove past Cindy and Bruce Beck's place so Kim and Kenny could see where their place was and see how it looked. For a while, Kim worked in the same factory area as Cindy in Anderson. Next we pulled down to the edge of the lake and talked about how low the water level was and how we had a lack of rain this summer and fall. As we were driving away from the lake we noticed a very large home under construction and almost finished. It was impressive setting amongst the rental units. Then we drove over to Bonnie and Donnie's cabin between Star Point and Eagle's Cove and as we pulled in the driveway, Donnie was standing out on the deck talking on the phone. He passed it to me and I spoke with Gary Brown and we wished each other Happy New Year. Susie and Gary Mader were also there with two of their friends. Oddly, their name were Susy and Gary also. Susy was a younger sister of Steve Keesling, who had been in the same Daleville High School class as me. We all gathered outside on the deck with a small fire burning in a metal fireplace while listening and laughing as Donnie and others told stories about the old days. We stayed a couple of hours and then loaded back in the truck for the ride back to Burkesville. Getting home about 9 PM, the ducks were waiting as we drove up and opened the garage door, they immediately waddled into the cage. A few minutes before midnight Kenny opened a bottle of wine and we toasted the New Year. It wasn't much later we all went to bed.