Friday, July 09, 2010
Dry Creek
We haven't been mowing at all because of the weather. The heat has been
in the 90s nearly every day for almost a month. There hasn't been enough
rain to keep the grass growing. The hay fields are still green with
Johnson grass, but the clover and fescue hasn't done much growing since
it was cut just after Memorial Day. The creek has a few pools of water
left, but no water is flowing. The blue herons are picking the small
minnows and fish out of the remaining pools. We interrupt them each day
we let Daisy run. They fly off when they hear us coming, make a large
circle and return as we drive away. The flowers have taken a huge hit
with the high heat and dry conditions, I'm glad we didn't grow mums this
year, it would have been a bad year with no rain and hardly any creek
water to use.
There
is rain in the forecast and it is showing up on the radar, but several
times that has happened and when it arrived in our area, we never
received any. Usually, hurricane season provides us with plenty of rain
showers.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Half Dozen Hummers
We've had a heat wave that has dried up most of the watering holes and
the creek has almost stopped flowing. There aren't many spots for
animals to find water and we've noticed the deer are coming down to the
creek to drink in the evenings. There are lots of flowers blooming, but
not much water to collect in the blossoms. Linda has been filling the
hummingbird feeder at the end of our front porch regularly. The hummers
have been emptying the feeder almost daily and we have purchased two
extra bags of sugar to make their food in order to keep them coming.
They are spunky little birds that will fight each other over a spot to
land on the feeder.
A
short rain shower that wasn't enough to create any water run off caused
the hummers to concentrate their efforts at the feeder for a while.
We've had more birds sitting on the feeder at one time in years past,
but their numbers are starting to increase this year.
It
is unreal how many tiny battles go on in the world that we hardly ever
notice. These hummers have to fight with each other, the ants and with
wasps, such as the one with the yellow legs in the first picture.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Lilies and Daisy
After breakfast, Linda and I went outside to let Daisy run before the
temperature climbed too high. I took the camera and took pictures of the
flower bed in front of Daisy's dog pen while Linda backed the Mule out
of the barn.
The
flower bed is mostly lilies that Kim and Kenny gave to us several years
ago. They have filled the bed nicely, I think. I also noticed that there
were honey bees working on the 'chigger bush' that was blooming in the
same flower bed.
Some
of the darkest colored lilies that I like real well were blooming along
with the many other colors.
As
Linda drove the Mule to the front of the barn Daisy was ready to go and
jumped in the back.
We
headed across the creek from the house and turned Daisy loose while we
helped the ATS road crew hook up a water pump to fill their truck from
the creek. They use the water in the truck to keep the dust down where
they are working and to wash the pavement where they have tracked mud
and dirt onto the highway.
After
the crew had started the pump and made sure it was working, we continued
across the creek and began riding around the hay fields and trimming low
hanging limbs with the loppers We took turns driving while the other
person was lopping from the passenger's seat in the Mule. Occasionally
we had to get out and cut some higher branches. We made it around one
field and back in the 'holler' and out before we were hot enough we quit
and just rode the rest of the way. Daisy had rolled in dark mud while we
were working, so we let her romp in the creek some more before putting
her in the back of the Mule and taking her back to the barn.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Buds and Dirt
With a lot of the flowers blooming and the trees beginning to bud, I
took the camera with me when I went outside. I walked around the end of
the house and took a couple pictures of the trees near the house.
I
walked to the barn and started the ATV and rode down to the fire pit and
took a few more pictures of the trees in that area.
As
I was riding around on the ATV, one of the highway relocation workers
flagged me down and asked if I wanted some top soil to put around the
pole barn. I said that I did and that I would stay down there and show
the dump truck driver where to dump the dirt. I had the driver dump the
dirt at the end of the pole barn where the large door is located.
After
dumping five truck loads at the end of the building, I had him dump the
dirt at the back side of the pole barn. Linda had saw what I was doing
and brought me breakfast and I ate between dump truck loads. I'm not
sure, but I think that there were around 12 truck loads of dirt dumped
and then I told them that was enough. I thanked the driver and the track
hoe operator. During the afternoon, the track hoe operator used the hoe
to bust up the concrete that was left from the shed I stored the boat
inside. He buried the pieces of concrete at the edge of the new road and
smoothed out the dirt. Near 5 PM, right before they quit for the day,
the dozer operator brought the dozer to the pole barn and spread out the
dirt. It took about twenty minutes and he was done. I told him I would
finish smoothing out the dirt with my tractor using the scoop or grader
box. I thanked the dozer operator and he parked his dozer and they were
done for the day. I used the tractor to move some of the dirt closer to
the building and pull some away. I also drug the scoop across the dirt
to smooth the tracks the dozer had left. Linda came down and took a look
and I quit as it was getting dark.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Egg Hunt
Pauline, Brent, Julie, Kyle, Stacey and Linda returned from IN late
Saturday night. Julie and Kyle were sleeping in the car and had to be
carried inside. We talked about their trip for a while then went to bed
as they were all tired from the ride.
Linda fixed breakfast and
started a ham cooking in the oven, then we took Julie and went for a
ride in the Mule. Daisy went along and we let her run while we rode
around the hay fields. We stopped on a sand bar in the creek and let
Julie throw rocks into the water. After she had thrown a lot of rocks,
we hopped back into the Mule and finished our trip around the fields,
then rode back to the farm. Pauline, Kyle, Brent and Stacey were outside
and walking around the fire pit, so we stopped down there. I let Daisy
out of the Mule, but kept her on a leash, Julie jumped out and they told
her to start finding the plastic eggs they had hidden.
Once
Julie had found most of the eggs, we helped by pointing out where some
of the harder ones had been hidden until she had them all. Then Pauline
and Kyle watched as Julie and Linda popped the eggs apart and dropped
the candy and change into a container. We went to the house and had ham
sandwiches for lunch, then went back out and sat on the back porch while
Julie played. Nancy and Steve stopped for a few minutes on their way to
their farm on the ridge. PB&J+K left for home around 5 PM.
There
are 25 pictures of Julie hunting eggs that readers can see by clicking
this LINK.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Greening Up
The grass is growing faster and faster each day. We've started mowing and have been moving some flowers that the highway relocation would have taken. We didn't move them earlier because we didn't know they were there until they popped through the ground. I used the back hoe on the tractor to turn them over as Linda picked out the bulbs. Stacey and Linda planted them in another spot while I dug out the bottom piece of an electric pole that the company had just cut off at ground level. I dug around it, then Linda and I hooked a chain to the piece and lifted it out. We were both surprised about the piece being 6 feet long when I pulled it out. I have also used the back hoe to clear the sand and rock out of the ditches between the hay fields. Linda drove the Triumph TR3 to town for a meeting with the manager of the day care. It was just a perfect day, nearly 80 degrees and no humidity.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Flower Delivery & Kyle
Friday afternoon, the door bell rang and I asked Stacey to answer. She
went and opened the door, there stood a delivery man with a couple of
items. He passed Stacey a vase with cut flowers and a stuffed animal.
She thanked the guy and closed the door. Stacey opened the card that was
attached and the flowers and teddy bear were from Jason.
In
the evening, when Jason called from the basketball game, they only
talked a few minutes because it was hard to hear, then Stacey called
Jason back later to thank him for him sending the gifts.
This morning
after we had breakfast, Kyle was awake and in a decent mood, so I sat
him up in the car seat and took several pictures. He is remaining awake
a little more each day according to Pauline and Brent.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Return To Dale Hollow
Pauline, Brent and Julie brought their dogs and came over Friday evening
while we were setting on the back porch and talking with our neighbors.
We all enjoyed watching Julie until nearly dark.
Saturday, Brent
wanted to look at a Chevy dealer for a new car, so we loaded into the
red pickup and drove to Columbia. Pauline and Brent drove a Chevy
Traverse on a test drive while we watched Julie. After returning to the
dealership and getting a few price quotes, we left and stopped at Sonic
for ice cream and drinks. I drove us to Edmonton where they bought a
swing and put it in the pickup bed. We returned to the farm and had
dinner, then took Daisy for a run around the fields with Julie riding
along in the Mule. Later in the afternoon, we pulled the Sea Ray out of
the shed and charged the battery, hooked the water hose to the muffs and
slid them over the lower unit of the motor so we could start the motor.
It started easily and ran fairly well. We let it run for a few minutes
to flush it out after being stored for over two years. We had not been
boating the last two summers for a couple of reasons, including Julie's
birth and Stacey's health, but everyone was ready to go this year.
Sunday
morning, Linda fixed a quick breakfast of cinnamon rolls while Pauline
made sandwiches for lunch in the boat later. Brent put drinks in the
cooler while Stacey gathered up towels to take. We aired up the trailer
tires and started the boat once again to make sure it was ready to go
when we put it in the lake. We packed everything into the boat and truck
and headed to the lake about 9 AM. I stopped at the gas station and
filled the tank in the boat, then on to the lake. We tried the new ramp
to launch the boat, it wasn't as easy to use as the larger ramp had
been, but we put the boat in anyway. I parked the truck and Brent idled
the boat around to a closer area to pick me up. Finally, we were on the
lake and enjoying the boat again.
Brent
drove the boat around the lake and we checked out the gages to see if
everything was working, it was so we stopped at our favorite cove and
went swimming. This was Julie's first ever boat trip, so we all made it
fun for her and tried not to scare her about anything.
Julie
had fun and set on the back of the boat with her feet in the water
splashing as we splashed water on her. Since it was fairly early in the
boating season, the water was a little chilly when we first dove in, so
we didn't put Julie in the water. Stacey, Pauline, Brent and I swam and
stayed in the water as it seemed OK after we were in for a minute.
Before the day was over, we sat Julie on a knee board and she cried a
little.
With
Julie back inside the boat, Brent skied as Pauline and Julie watched
from the back seat of the boat.
The
sun was nice and warm, the water was a little cool, the boat ran good
and we all had fun, even Julie. We called it a day, returned to the dock
and put the boat on the trailer, pulled it home and parked it in the
shed. Nancy brought Linda some flowers in the old mailbox that my Uncle
Ed used to get his mail and we set outside and talked a while before
PB&J left for home.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Almost Easter
I've missed posting a few days due to an illness and going to the doctor
a couple of times, but there wasn't a whole lot happening, so I haven't
had much to say anyway. Friday evening Pauline, Brent and Julie arrived.
Saturday
morning when Nancy and Steve stopped, they said we had cows eating
across the creek in our hay fields. We looked outside and there were
about 15 nice size cows munching on the hay. They were nearly ready to
cross the creek and get on the road, so Brent and I went up the road to
the neighbor's house to see if they were his cows. They weren't, but by
the time we returned to the farm, the guy that owned the cows had
arrived and was driving them back into the 'holler'. We helped by riding
the ATVs and herding them along to the back of the 'holler' where he
drove them up the hill and over to Little Renoux Creek. We started a
small bonfire about 6 PM and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows until a
little after 10 PM with PB&J, Nancy and Steve.
Sunday morning,
Brent gave Julie a bath and then Linda gave her an Easter Basket since
they were going to be gone next week.
After
breakfast, someone rang the door bell and said the cows were in the hay
fields again. This time Linda and I drove over to Little Renoux Creek
and found Charlie King's place and told him his cows were in our fields.
He said he would be over in a little while on a horse to drive the cows
home. We returned to the farm and used the Mule and ATVs to drive the
cows back into the 'holler' and waited about a half hour for Charlie to
ride over. He took over the cattle drive and we returned to the fire pit
and picked up sticks and burnt leaves while Julie and the dogs played.
Back
inside the house, we had lunch, Julie changed outfits and then Pauline
and Brent helped Julie color eggs. We gave Brent a head start so he
could hide the eggs, then we all went back down to the fire pit and
helped Julie find the plastic eggs. It really didn't take long for her
to pickup on the idea and then she was an excellent egg hunter. We let
her find them all and then hid some of them again since she was having
such a good time.
Linda
has always made Easter a fun time for our kids, nephews and nieces. Now,
our granddaughter, Julie had a great time and so did Linda and I.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Beautiful Weekend
The weather was beautiful this weekend. Just a perfect temperature to be outside during the day. We did the usual things, let Daisy run and walk around the hay fields with PB&J. Julie stopped and played in the creek. Oh, there was a small crisis for a moment too. Julie was standing near the edge of the creek, playing in the water with a stick and throwing rocks into the creek. All of a sudden she fell down in the inch deep water. Pauline was right there to grab her quickly, but Julie was wet and she didn't think it was nearly as funny as the rest of us. She cried for a minute and then was OK. We walked to the house and changed her clothes and Julie was ready to go back outside. She played in the water again when we walked around the fields the next day, so it wasn't a lasting thing. We worked on moving flowers most of the weekend, but Brent and I did take the back hoe off the tractor and replace it with the plow.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Family Visits
Friday evening Pauline, Brent and Julie came over for a visit. We played
with Julie and talked until bedtime.
Saturday I fixed pancakes for
breakfast and then Julie, Pauline and I took a ride in the Mule and let
Daisy run around the farm. Julie seems to like riding in the Mule a lot
and letting Daisy run gives her something to focus on and talk about as
we ride. It was getting warmer and Pauline didn't mind the weather. We
went back to the house and went inside for a few minutes. Julie was
waiting to go back outside, so we decided to walk around the hay field
with the little dogs getting to run along. It was a long walk for Coco,
Poco, Pico and Julie. We stopped a few times and let Julie play in the
water while the little dogs chased each other in circles, ran and jumped
around and had a blast. We loaded back in the Mule and drove back across
the creek to the house. After a sandwich for lunch we went out to dig up
some of the flowers that had to be moved for the highway relocation. We
dug up the flowers and laid them in the scoop of the tractor. I asked
Regina to come over and take some of the flowers. She brought her riding
mower over with a cart behind and we filled it with flower bulbs. Then I
drove the tractor over to her shed and dug a place for her and Linda to
replant the flowers. I moved a small tree for Regina and then we went to
the barn and planted the flowers we had in the tractor scoop. Nancy and
Steve stopped by and we loaded the rest of the hay he had in the barn on
the trailer so he could haul it to his barn on the ridge. We finished
with the flowers, cleaned up some wood scraps where I had split wood,
then went down to the fire pit and picked up some limbs that had fell.
Nancy and Steve returned with the trailer and put it back in the shed,
then parked their truck down by the fire pit and we all set and talked a
while. Nancy and Steve left to go buy groceries and we went inside for
supper.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
A Sign Of Spring
As Stacey and I were taking Daisy for a run today, I started to notice
the grass in the fields was beginning to green slightly. I thought maybe
it was just from the rain we had last weekend, so I drove the Mule down
by the creek and saw that the daffodils were blooming behind the old
smoke house. I snapped a picture before we took Daisy around the fields.
Today,
it was in the upper 30s as we let Daisy run, but the temperatures are
supposed to be above 70 degrees by the weekend if the forecast is
correct. I'm looking forward to that, but I know that we usually have
snow flurries the first week of April, so spring isn't here yet, but
it's getting closer!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Home Makers Pot Luck Dinner
Yesterday afternoon, Regina, Linda, Stacey and I wrapped the potted
mums. As the girls put the wrap on the pots, I set them in the red
trailer. This morning, Regina, Linda and Stacey worked on the pumpkins
for decorations for the tables. 
We
took the mums to the church about 2 PM and Linda and Stacey began
decorating the tables. The pot luck dinner began at 6 PM and they had
approximately 125 guests and the Lindsey Family singers were the
entertainment for the evening.
Linda's
club, the Krafty Kritters, had about 12 members present and Jason showed
up to set with Stacey while they listened to the singing.
After
the singing was over, there was a little bit of club business conducted
as one president exited and another took over. Kathy Berry was the past
president on the left and Patricia Garner was the new president for the
upcoming year on the right of the picture.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Frosty Mornings
We've had frost on the ground the last two mornings. We had dug mums for
the Homemakers Club and had to roll the hay wagon in the garage to make
sure the weather didn't harm those mums on it. We roll it out each
morning and water them, then roll it back in the garage just before
sunset.
We
have to wrap the pots and deliver those mums Thursday afternoon, so not
too much longer on messing with them. I'm surprised that people are
still buying mums around here. We have set the racks up on the back
porch to stack wood for the stove and have hauled one load in the back
of the Mule to the porch. We had our first fire in the stove Sunday
evening. It feels so good, nothing warms me up like a fire in a wood
stove.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Busy Saturday
The doorbell rang this morning about 8:30 and it was Larry wanting to
buy hay. I put my shoes on and went outside to find David and his son,
Landon, waiting in the truck with a trailer behind it. Larry backed the
trailer in the barn loft and we began tossing hay bales to David, who
was stacking them on the trailer. We filled the trailer and loaded the
rest in the back of the pickup truck. They bought 120 bales of hay and
then left to go unload. I went inside to cool off for a little bit, but
Linda had called Regina and they were ready to dig mums for the
Homemaker's Club meeting next Thursday. I went back outside and hooked
the hay wagon to the back of the Mule. Stacey, Linda and I drove to the
mum patch and met Regina there. I dug about 40 mums while Regina and
Linda put the mums in pots and Stacey carried the potted mums to the hay
wagon, then I dug several more for Regina to take in her pickup. We
pulled the wagon back to Regina's house and Linda used the water hose to
water each pot of mums. I then pulled the wagon to the back of the barn
and parked it in the hay loft. OK, that job was done, so we headed
inside and took a short break. We drove the HHR to Albany to check out
the Foothills Festival and it was extremely busy. It was hard to find
anywhere to park, but after finding a place, we walked about two blocks
towards the center of town.
We
looked around at several of the booths and then headed to the food
section. We each picked out something we liked and ate, then Linda and I
split a hot fudge cake. We tossed our trash in the can and began walking
around again. Someone stepped out in front of me and I looked up and was
surprised to see Bonnie and Donnie from IN. We fell into a conversation
and then spent some time walking around looking at the booths and items
for sale with them. We started towards the car, when Francis and her
husband mentioned to us about a car show behind the US Post Office, so
we all walked up there and looked around at the cars, tractors and
motorcycles that were entered in the show.
Donnie
used to drag race, so he and I enjoyed looking at the cars, especially
some of the race cars. Bonnie asked us to follow them over to Susie and
Gary's cabin near Dale Hollow Lake. After a short drive, we parked and
went down to their cabin and set on the outside deck enjoying the
beautiful surroundings and talking. We stayed until almost sunset and
then headed back home.
Friday, October 10, 2008
State Park Drop Off
We had dug about 40 mums and taken a truckload to the grade school to decorate for their open house on Thursday. Friday, we went to pick the mums back up and bring them back to the farm. Most of the mums had been sold, but there were about 7 potted mums for us to return. While in town, we filled up with gas because the price had dropped to $3.08 a gallon. Back at the farm, we sold a few mums and 12 bales of hay. Linda had agreed to pick Jason up at 3 PM when he was done working, so we took the HHR and after getting Jason, we went to Albany and ate. I drove past a place that also grows mums and it looked like they hadn't sold any. I thought mum sales were going a little slow for us, but the patch at his place looked like they hadn't dug a single mum. We drove to Dale Hollow State Park and down to the boat ramp. The lake's water level was so low that only a small portion of the ramp was usable I noticed they have started construction on the new boat launching ramp. We left the ramp area and drove to the campground and found where Stephanie and Tommy were camped. Gloria and Hoy were camped in their camping trailer alongside them. We parked the car and set and talked with everyone about an hour until they began fixing their supper. It seemed like it was a great time to be camping, the weather was perfect and the leaves were turning. We drove back to the farm and found we had sold a few mums while we were gone. Stacey watched a pre-season Pacer game after we went inside.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Saturday With Julie
Saturday morning started with Linda making breakfast while I fed Julie a
jar of breakfast food. Pauline and Brent arrived shortly after that, as
I was finishing washing the 56 Chevy. Brent helped with cleaning the
rims and tires on the 58 Triumph. Pauline and Julie road along with
Brent in the 56 Chevy and Linda drove the TR3 to leave the cars at the
Chevy dealership for a local car show. I followed in the HHR with Stacey
and Julie riding with me. After leaving the two old cars, we stopped at
a yard sale in a church parking lot and then on back to the house for a
quick sandwich. We all piled in the pickup truck and I took the back way
to Edmonton to the Pumpkin Festival. We walked around the Courthouse
Square and looked at all the vendors' booths and enjoyed lemon shake ups
and elephant ears while examining the various home made items for sale.
Stacey and I took turns pushing Julie in a stroller because the crowd
was fairly large. When we had seen most of the things there, we headed
back to the farm for a short pit stop, then back to the Chevy dealership
to pick up our cars. Linda drove the Triumph and this time I drove the
56 Chevy as Pauline, Julie and Stacey were riding in the pickup with
Brent. Once back at the farm we let Julie ride in the Mule as Daisy ran
around the hay fields, then Pauline took a picture of Julie and me as
Brent put Daisy back in her pen.
Then
I took pictures of the others watching Julie pet Daisy through the fence
and them playing with Julie.
I
parked the 56 Chevy in front of the barn and Pauline and Linda watered
the mums we had set there for sale while Julie played inside the car.
Brent
was standing by the car and coaching Julie on how to hold the steering
wheel and grab the gear shifter while I was taking the pictures. Then he
pulled Julie out of the car, stood her on the window sill and told her
to raise her arms like NASCAR drivers do after they win the race. After
that, Julie rode with me up to the garage and then we went back down to
the barn.
We
went inside and Pauline fixed potato soup for supper and then we looked
at the pictures and watched TV the rest of the evening.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mum Deliveries
We dug mums last evening until it was too dark to see which ones were
ready to dig. Regina and Linda watered them at the front of the barn by
the streetlight. This morning, Linda had to pot some of the larger mums
into bigger pots that a woman had brought to have filled. I loaded those
in the back of the pickup truck along with some smaller mums with help
from Stacey and Linda. They were standing by the truck as I walked
around to get in the driver's seat, so I snapped these pictures as we
were almost ready to leave for town to deliver the potted mums.
After
the deliveries, we stopped and ate lunch before returning to the farm.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Hog Roast At Garmons' Cabin
This morning, Linda went out early and headed to the mum patch by
herself. I waited on Stacey and then we headed down there on a
4-wheeler. Linda had dug several mums and then I took over the digging.
After digging a few, we had several people stop and buy some of the ones
we had dug. One couple wanted pumpkins, gourds and a bale of hay, so we
had to return to the farm and get those items for them. Linda watered
the mums that we had dug and we set them out of the Mule. We went inside
for a while and Linda fixed a dish to take to the hog roast up on Jone's
Ridge. Steve and Phillip Garmon had asked us to come up for a hog roast
a few days ago while they were cutting our hay. I loaded 3 of our lawn
chairs in the back of the Mule, put some cans of pop in a cooler with
some ice and Linda set her dish in the back. Linda, Stacey and I pulled
down to the barn and Linda and I set in 4 potted mums to give to Betty
Garmon. We drove the Mule to Garmon's cabin and there was already a
fairly good size crowd of people. We pulled up and set the four mums on
the cabin's front porch.
The
pig was being smoked in a large smoker on wheels and people were
mingling around, talking and playing Corn Toss. Everyone seemed to be
having a good time and the weather was just cloudy enough to keep the
heat down but not worry anyone about rain.
They
were taking the meat out a little at a time and putting it into tin foil
pans that were covered and the ladies were preparing the dishes for the
guests to start dipping out their portions. Just before the meal, a
prayer was said and then the guests were asked to join in a semicircle
for a few pictures to be taken.
Then
the food was made available and the line formed for each person to fix
their own plate with whatever they liked. There was plenty of food even
after the entire line had passed through. Steve Garmon told me there
were over a hundred people there when the food had been served. It was a
nice hog roast with friendly people and perfect weather.
Thanks
to the Garmon Family for their hospitality.
We returned to
the our farm to find that we had sold more mums while we were away, so
we dropped off the chairs and headed down to the mum patch again. Nancy
and Steve crossed the highway in their Mule and Steve helped dig some
mums while Linda potted them. After filling the back of both Mules, we
headed to the barn. I went ahead and used the tractor to scoop water out
of the creek and pour it in the 100 gallon water tank so that Linda
could water the mums that had just been dug. Regina and Linda sat in the
hallway of the barn while Stacey and I took Daisy for a run around the
hay fields across the creek.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Billy Currington Concert
We met Jason for breakfast this morning, then checked on the progress at
NAPA on the 1956 Chevy. They had the new starter on the engine, the gas
tank mounted and were working on replacing the fuel filters. We then
dropped Jason off at Houchens and returned to the farm. We found money
in the can where people had stopped and bought mums, so we went to the
mum patch and dug enough mums to fill the black trailer. As we pulled it
to the barn, more people stopped and bought some of the mums we had just
dug. Sales are picking up it seems. A little after noon, we went to pick
up the 56 Chevy and it was done. I paid and drove it home. Once home, I
tried the new starter a few times and it worked well. Linda sold a few
more mums and we went inside to get ready for the Billy Currington
concert in Glasgow. We each took showers and dressed, then left to pick
up Jason at his grandparents' house in town. We picked him up at 4 PM
and then headed towards Glasgow. Stacey and Jason decided that we should
eat at Tumbleweeds, so we stopped there for supper. Our meals were
excellent and so was the service.
After
eating we went and parked at the Courthouse Square in Glasgow and walked
around the square to see some of the booths, then checked out the gazebo
on the square before going in the Plaza Theatre.
Our
seats were in row F and fairly close to the center of the stage. At 7
PM, after a few announcements, Billy Currington and his band came out
and played for about an hour.
They
took a couple of minutes break time, as the crowd cheered, then they
came back and played for about another half hour as their encore.
Billy
Currington was a good performer, but his sound equipment wasn't so good.
It was hard to tell what he was singing as the sound wasn't clear. With
better sound equipment I think the concert would have been much better.
It wasn't that is was too loud, just not the sound quality of other
groups we've seen at the Plaza.
