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Posted on September 13, 2010
This was a fine car in its day. It’s been sitting on the side of the road at a junk yard for years, how many years I don’t know, but from the looks of it, quite a few.
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Posted on August 2, 2010
This metal “sculpture” is outside of a local art gallery. It is made from old metal barrels. The bush has started growing around the “driver” so he’s hard to see. I wonder how long he’s been on the curb!
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Posted on July 29, 2010
If you have an extra $4500 in your pocket and want to buy something no one else has, I can point you to the location of this. If your volunteer fire department is #63, they you really should take a look at this. I would imagine $4500 is a good deal for a fire engine!
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Posted on July 3, 2010
There were antique cars parked at the local Chik-Fil-A today so I stopped to take a look at them. At first I thought it was an antique car show, then I saw a 2010 Mustang Cobra with the hood raised, so I decided it was for car enthusiasts in general. I talked to the owners of one of the cars and this has become the Saturday evening past time of a lot of locals, most with antique cars, but a few with newer cars that just like to hang out with other car lovers. There was a DJ playing oldies music and cars mostly from the 50′s and 60′s.
Just as I was about to leave, a 1957 Thunderbird convertible pulled in. I had to take a look at it because I have loved this model T-Bird ever since I was a girl. The owners, Clyde and Donna Barcus, told me I could sit in it if I wanted to! As I always expected, this model T-Bird is just my size although I don’t know if it would ever fit in my budget! 
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Posted on May 16, 2010
I actually took this photo late last night, after I had posted yesterday’s photo. Right after I posted yesterday’s photo I heard a loud “zzztttt” sound followed by a big pop, then the power went out. Since the sound was so close I went outside to see what had happened. At first I though lightning might have hit a transformer as we had storms off and on all day, but it wasn’t raining. I didn’t see anything unusual except the absence of lights. I went back inside and listened to the crickets chirp and a frog croak as the last bit of light faded from the sky. It was really a bit strange. No red, blue, or green blinking lights anywhere in the house….no lights on the cable box, modem, computers, no digital clock on the stove, microwave, or coffee pot. Total darkness.
What seemed like quite a while later I could here a big truck making its way slowly down my street. It was the power company repair truck. I went outside to see what was going on, as did several of my neighbors. The driver put the big supports down on the truck, then his partner got in the bucket and was raised up to the transformer. After they worked for a bit the power came back on. The driver came over to our little group of on lookers and told us a squirrel had tried to get in a spot it didn’t belong causing a fuse in the transformer to blow. He joked that the squirrel wouldn’t do it again though, because he was now “fried squirrel”. The workers also told us the power was out not only on our street, but also on the main road for about a quarter mile stretch, all because of the blown fuse from a nosey little squirrel.
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Posted on April 25, 2010
I encountered a lot of these along a fairly short stretch of road today – in a small town that 35 years ago had only one traffic light, but now has a mall and several shopping centers. The road is being widened in what was once the middle of the town. Of course some people in Tennessee joke that this is our state bird because you see so many of them ….:)
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