From Plains to Franklin

Every Thursday morning our local paper 'The Williamson Herald' comes out.  I enjoy reading about what is going on in Franklin and the upcoming events.

My two favorite articles are written by my friend Cindy, the 'Cracked Pot Gardner', and William Carter, who writes a hilarious commentary.

William Carter is a Franklin city employee.  He has worked for the city for years doing things from landscaping to filling pot holes.  His talent is writing.  He writes about the crazy people in our county, makes fun of City Hall, and gripes about the ridiculous people who hurl insults at him when he and his crew have to set up orange cones and do road work, therefore ruining their day when they can't park where they want to.  He calls the ones who kick over his orange cones 'cone molesters'.  

I get so tickled reading his articles.  He calls his wife 'love weasel', his mother in law the 'Queen Bee', his dog 'Bear dog', swears he speaks to his dads ghost once a year and generally makes fun of SUV driving yuppies.  He reminds me of a Lewis Grizzard with family values.

Not many people know that William Carter is the son of Billy Carter of Plains, Georgia and the nephew of former President Jimmy Carter.  

Heard Last Night

Me-"Do you like the way my perfume smells? It's called Hespera."

DH-"Hezbollah!!?"

Me-.......pause "No, Hespera!"

DH- "Oh....yea."

Goodness!

Arm Chair Travelling

Since I was getting antsy to go somewhere, I thought I would go through the states and do some arm chair travelling and think about all the places I have been blessed to experience with DH and Savannah, Mom, Dad and Les when I was younger, in-laws and with my travelling buddies.  I'm sure I have left some places out. 

Alabama-Space & Rocket Center 

Arizona-                           Florida- Disney World  Destin Grayton Seaside 

The Grand Canyon                              Miami  Key Biscayne Fort Lauderdale

Sedona Phoenix Scottsdale

California-

Hollywood                 San Francisco San Diego San Luis Obispo

Monterey Peninsula    Santa Monica  Santa Barbara La Jolla

The Pacific Coast Hwy     Napa Valley  Sausalito  La Costa Spa

Reagan Presidential Library  Bel Air Hotel  

Hotel Del Coronado

Georgia- Atlanta   Savannah Macon Reynolds Plantation  Augusta

                   Appalachian Trail                   Illinois- Chicago  Art Institute of

        Capitol Turner Field                                                            Chicago

    High Museum of Art   The Fox                          Wrigley Field    The Field Museum

    Warm Springs The Little White House       American Girl Place   Navy Pier

Kentucky-Louisville Speed Art Museum

                                                                                  

Louisiana- The French Quarter    Cafe du Monde  The Garden District

  The Superdome

Maine- Kennebunkport    Monhegan Island  Bangor

Maryland-Annapolis  Baltimore

Massachusetts- Boston  The Freedom Trail  Fenway Park  Harvard  MIT  Navy Yard

Mt Auburn Cemetery  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum   Museum of Fine Arts  Concord

Louisa May Alcott Home  Walden Pond  Longfellow's Home   Emerson's Home 

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Home   Beacon Hill  Cape Cod   Cambridge   Plymoth Plantation

Mississippi- Oxford Jackson  Natchez  Yazoo City Greenwood Greenville Coffeeville

Water Valley  Belzoni  Indianola  Mound Bayou  

Missouri-St. Louis

Nevada- Las Vegas   Hoover Dam

New Hampshire- Pickety Place  Manchester  Appledore Island

                                                                           Celia Thaxter's Garden

New Mexico-Carlsbad Caverns

New York-New York City Central Park Tavern on the Green  Empire State Building

Metropolitan Museum of Art Rockefeller Center Statue of Liberty Times Square

Yankee Stadium (saw Joe DiMaggio)  Harlem Grants Tomb Chinatown Little Italy SoHo

The Plaza World Trade Center  Broadway

North Carolina- The Biltmore  Asheville  Lake Lure Great Smoky Mtns  The Outer Banks

South Carolina-Charleston  Low Country  Kiawah  Hilton Head

North Dakota  South Dakota- The Badlands  The Black Hills   Mount Rushmore

Tennessee- Nashville  The Opry The Ryman  Memphis Graceland  Franklin The Peabody

Loveless Cafe  Blackberry Farm

Texas- Dallas Rockwall  El Paso to Juarez Mexico

Utah- Mormon Tabernacle Salt Lake City

Virginia- The Homestead  Shenandoah Valley  Colonial Williamsburg Mt Vernon

Washington D.C.- Jefferson Memorial Lincoln Memorial White House Capitol Treasury

  Arlington Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Vietnam Memorial Smithsonian

West Virginia- The Greenbriar 

Wyoming-Jackson Hole Grand Teton National Park

                       Yellowstone National Park  Jenny Lake Lodge

Canada-New Brunswick   Prince Edward Island   Ontario Niagara Falls

Puerto Rico-San Juan  Bahamas- St. Thomas

I'll list my European travels next!

 

                                            

                                                                                       

Just One Winter

There is something about snow that really makes me want to live in New England.  I would like to experience a true Winter Season.  I would like to feel the cool crisp Autumn, watch the incredible colors of the leaves as they die and watch one season of Winter with snow on barren branches. I would like to trudge through a field blanketed with snow in heavy coat and boots.

I would like to see the moon over the snow covered forest.  I would like to hear an owl hoot at midnight, watch the smoke curl from the chimney.

Having lived my entire life in the South, I can not imagine waking up to snow every day.  I think I would enjoy the stillness of the landscape.  The quiet.  Small town beauty.  

My friend Clare lives outside Boston in a beautiful town near Concord.  She loves the first fresh snow, but is definitely over it by the time April rolls around and there is still slush on the ground. 

Just one Winter, by the fire, eating soup, wool socks, bringing in the logs, listening, experiencing how the New England 'er lives.  

Sounds like the perfect place to write a book.

Why is it....?

...that I don't mind doing the wash, but don't like to fold and put away?

...that DH and I can't stand the door between our bedroom and bathroom to be left open EVER?

...that I can't get into a bed at night unless it's made up?

...that every time I put fresh place mats out, somebody gets something on them at dinner?

...that I have more skin problems now than when I was a teenager?

...that there is nothing good to watch on t.v?

...that my car needs washing again?

...that Christmas stuff is out too early?

...that it is taking  me forever to read Katherine Neville's The Fire?

...that Azalea barks and Harvey doesn't at the neighbors dog every day when they take their walk?

...that I am getting antsy to go somewhere?

...that I think computers waste a lot of time?

...that it is hard to be positive all the time?

...that I have to smell lipstick before I buy it?

...that I don't wear hose anymore, only tights?

...that DH still denies that he snores loud?

...that I have such an incredible child?

...that I can't help but stick my finger in DH's mouth when he sleeps with it open?

...that I need to stop this and go fold my clothes?

...that I love fresh vacuum tracks?

...that my mailbox will not stay shut!

...that I dread going up to see Sav's room?

...that I get tickled in church when DH sings the wrong words loud?

...that DH is obsessed with Disney World?

...that I always get a guy at the checkout when I have the embarrassing stuff?

...that every time you walk out the door, you spend money?

...that I am probably going to get in trouble with DH for writing about him too much?

"With malice toward none,

  with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right."

                       -Abraham Lincoln

                  "It is not who is right that counts, but to be right."

                                                            -Rose Marie Morse

Azalea aka the Bunny Killer

                                MUG SHOT

Does this face look like the face of a bunny killer?  Well, it is.  

Last night she struck again. DH calls her a murderess.

If she just left them outside, I wouldn't freak so bad. They carry stuffed animals around and I just assumed this time as well. I know it is animal instinct and miniature schnauzers are known in Germany for catching farmers rodents, but she is just too cute to kill something else so cute!

I have always told DH that I should be on 'Survivor' or we should do the 'Amazing Race' together.  After cleaning up Azalea's trophy prize, disposing of it, getting the carpet cleaner out, lifting windows and washing her mouth out with a soapy rag, I hesitated.

And I had to pick IT up! Yuk!  I don't know if  I could hunt, clean and eat on Survivor.  I always said if I was hungry enough, I would.  But after last night, I'm just not sure. 

I think I'll just stick to 'Amazing Race' now.