Sunday, June 26, 2005
Weekend Outing
Marvin and I headed to Portland, TN this weekend to see our son Jonathan and his wife Keri. We had a splendid time during our visit. After breakfast we went to check out the progress on the home they are building. The foundation of the house has been completed, and next week the framers will be there to get started. In about another week, the house will be ready for wiring. Things seem to be progressing nicely, and soon they will have a very nice house to move into. The land around the house is slowly being cleared too, and there is so much potential with the acreage they own. We are very proud of what we have seen so far.
We also visited one of the biggest flea markets in Tennessee at the state fairgrounds in Nashville. We walked around for several hours and found all sorts of odds and ends available for sale. We picked up a few things while we were there, and enjoyed looking at all of the items. I found a complete set of Beatrix Potter books for Hannah, her first set of books. We walked around for a few hours and still didn't see everything. We went back to their house afterwards and Keri and I picked up supper at Sonic while Marvin and Jonathan tinkered with the mower and got the lawn mowed.
After supper, we went by for the ending activities of camp week at Jonathan & Keri's church. We had a lot of fun there too. Jonathan & Marvin played horseshoes while Keri & I watched. Marvin won two out of three games, and of course everyone couldn't help ribbing Jonathan a little, especially since it had been about fifteen years or so since Marvin had played horseshoes. There was also a very friendly game of baseball going on between the men, and we watched a little of that before heading back to the house. We also saw part of "National Treasure" before retiring for the night. That is a very good movie, and I hope to see the rest of it soon. After a quick breakfast at Cracker Barrel, we started on our drive back home.
On our way back home, we stopped at a convenience store in Dickson, where I ran into a friend and her mother, who were coming back from a trip to Atlanta. Her mother had not set up voicemail on her Verizon cellphone yet, so since they knew that I work for a Verizon dealer, I helped them set up voicemail and we went our separate ways. It's amazing how small the world can be sometimes. You can be very far from home and still find people you know. It's good to get away from it all, but as Dorothy said in "The Wizard of Oz", "There's no place like home."
We also visited one of the biggest flea markets in Tennessee at the state fairgrounds in Nashville. We walked around for several hours and found all sorts of odds and ends available for sale. We picked up a few things while we were there, and enjoyed looking at all of the items. I found a complete set of Beatrix Potter books for Hannah, her first set of books. We walked around for a few hours and still didn't see everything. We went back to their house afterwards and Keri and I picked up supper at Sonic while Marvin and Jonathan tinkered with the mower and got the lawn mowed.
After supper, we went by for the ending activities of camp week at Jonathan & Keri's church. We had a lot of fun there too. Jonathan & Marvin played horseshoes while Keri & I watched. Marvin won two out of three games, and of course everyone couldn't help ribbing Jonathan a little, especially since it had been about fifteen years or so since Marvin had played horseshoes. There was also a very friendly game of baseball going on between the men, and we watched a little of that before heading back to the house. We also saw part of "National Treasure" before retiring for the night. That is a very good movie, and I hope to see the rest of it soon. After a quick breakfast at Cracker Barrel, we started on our drive back home.
On our way back home, we stopped at a convenience store in Dickson, where I ran into a friend and her mother, who were coming back from a trip to Atlanta. Her mother had not set up voicemail on her Verizon cellphone yet, so since they knew that I work for a Verizon dealer, I helped them set up voicemail and we went our separate ways. It's amazing how small the world can be sometimes. You can be very far from home and still find people you know. It's good to get away from it all, but as Dorothy said in "The Wizard of Oz", "There's no place like home."
