Post-Tuesday Blog

Greetings dear daughters and granddaughter,

I realize that I am now 24 hours late in posting my blog; however there are some very good reasons for this:
1. My leg hurts VERY bad!
2. It rained last night.
3. I didn't have my pictures ready.
4. I had company for supper last night so I had to cook and clean for them.

Now, on to my blog:

This is a picture of our deck. As you can see, there is a morning glory that has decided to grow right up through the decking. It is also growing through the steps but the flower wasn't blooming so it's more difficult to see on a picture. Isn't this neat? Dad's mums are FULL of buds and once they bloom, they are going to be gorgeous. Can't wait.

OUR BUS TRIP:

This was one of my favorite activities - riding the train. Good thing I enjoyed it because we did a lot of train riding. This one happened to be an open car which were even more fun.
Dad took this picture the night we had our dinner cruise on the boat in Knoxville, TN. It was a picture of the lights on the bridge as we went under it. Isn't it cool? It was a beautiful night and a beautiful cruise. Loved it!!

This was one of our highlights - The Hermitage in Nashville, TN. It is the home of Andrew Jackson - I didn't get a very good picture of it. Dad and I could have spent another couple of hours there - it's definitely a must-do if we're ever back in that area.

All of the furniture in the house is original - they have been able to "purchase back" all of the original stuff from the family.

I need to get to the library now and check out some books on Andrew and Rachel Jackson. She was a divorcee when he married her and it was quite a scandal.

This is "Fat Man Squeeze" or something like that at Rock City. I think you were there, DeAnn. I made it through just fine.

We really enjoyed Rock City also and would have liked to have spent more time there - in fact even our tour guide said it was way tooooo rushed!! We bascially just walked through it and didn't get much time to stop and look. Then we picked up two little old ladies and we all got lost.

This is a scene from one of the train rides. We have lots of very pretty scenery inbetween all the trees - you just had to be really quick with the trigger finger to get your picture. I have more to show you later.

Before we left, Dad was very concerned about being able to take his naps on the bus - as you can see, he had NO problem. In fact, this is on the train. Because all of the train rides we took were vintage, they would go both ways on the same track so lots of people took naps on the return trip.

DeAnn, I'm hoping that when I am at your house, you will help me organize my pictures. Then I would like to put our bus trip on a CD, rather than doing an album this time..

I have a couple of projects I wanted to work on this week, but it doesn't look very promising. I went through all the mail today and have a little "to do" pile. The rest went in the garbage. We're having company for lunch on Sunday - just chili, chicken soup and bread and apple pie so don't have to do anything too difficult. Have to take grandma to a funeral on Saturday morning so that will shoot the day pretty much.

Well, that's all for now!! I hope you both have a wonderful week.

Amy, I sure hope your cold disppears as quickly as it came.

Love to all of you!! (especially my youngest reader - you're still one of the brightest rays in my sunlight)