Happy Fall!

I guess I'm getting into the fall spirit now. I made my husband pull over so I could photograph this cute punkin' patch in Nashville on Monday. This isn't half of the pumpkins they had!

We had such a blast in Nash-ville (emphasis on both syllables equallly), as we Texans say it. Adam says the locals say "NASH-vul". He told me to say it like I was from Texas. We ate way too much, stayed up way too late visiting, spent way too much money, and listened to music way too loud! But every second was worth it! We got to take in Adam's show at the Full Moon Saloon on Tuesday night. Of course, he had to introduce his parental units, but instead of being embarrassed, I stood up and waved at all the people there - I was so proud of my son - the entertainer for the evening. The saloon was full, the music was loud, he played country, but the crowd wanted to hear more 70's R&R - which was exactly what he did. They loved it, and my DH and I loved it even more! Here's a little shot of him playing...

Of course they were awesome!

Monday morning, we visited Bell Meade Plantation in Nashville. It was begun in 1807 as a thoroughbred horse farm where the horses became the backbone of some of the present day racing winners like Secretariat and many others. It was so interesting. We had a tour of the inside of the 3-story plantation home complete with columns, parlors, grand staircases, and faithfully restored with period furnishings. It was beautiful. I've always been a fan of the civil war era, and if you looked closely, you almost imagine Scarlett O'Hara come bursting out the doors with her skirts flying in the wind. Here's a couple of photos from the Plantation...

The slave quarters and a little garden area still sit on the property, as well as an old two-story smokehouse, gardens, a dairy made of stone, and a family mausoleum. Here's a photo of the carriage house, too. They had about 6 carriages there. It must have been very nice to be a horse that lived there!

Well, I got tons to catch up on at home tonight, but just wanted to check in. I'll have more to show you later - I promise to have only a couple more pics to post of our hometown Festival in my next post. I hope you all are doing well, and I'll be visiting very soon! Take care -

Gone to NASHVILLE

The parade was wonderful this morning. We had fun and it was a perfectly beautiful day! Tonights the ball, and I'll try to get lots of pics, and maybe some of Me and My Hubby! We don't have much of a chance to dress up and so it will be lots of fun!

We'll be out of pocket for a few days - we are going to see our oldest son, Adam, in Nashville. YEAAAAA!!!! I miss him so much. His 27th birthday is this coming week and we are anxious to see him. We'll also get to hear him play TEXAS COUNTRY at the Full Moon Saloon Tuesday night! I'm excited. I haven't gotten to hear him sing and play in about a year.


Our middle son, Josh, and some of his buddies went to Nashville during the summer and they had a ball following Adam up and down Broadway. Josh said "mom, they know him in all the clubs and saloons and they wanted him to come up and play everywhere we went". Hope we get to do some of that, too, and see him in his natural element!



So, all that to say that I will be gone for a few days and probably won't be posting. I may take my computer and I may not. Don't know... So you all have a wonderful week, and I'll look forward to hearing from you and checking up on you all when I get back! I'll have Nashville pics, too! (can you tell I'm crazy about my kiddoes?)

I'm a Doofus!

WHAT A COMPLETE DOOFUS I AM!!! You won't believe what I did! I was fooling around with the blogger choices and I decided to moderate my comments. Well, I turned that feature on and promptly forgot about it. I've been so busy with the Princess's pageant stuff that I've only had time to check my blog and look at a few favorites. I only saw 1 comment on my last post, and I thought, ' pooh, nobody's looking at it anyway, so what difference does it make?'

Well, I stumbled back on the 'moderate comments' feature tonight while surfing the blog, and WA-LA!!! 14 comments!!! Yea! I AM, too, being read!!! Oh joy, I'm not quite so boring after all!!! Thank you all so much for your comments! It makes me feel so good for you all to stop by to say hi and leave your encouragement and your thoughts! The comments are all posted here now and also I WON TWO GIVEAWAYS!!! That's a first for me, too! Can you believe it?? Here I was about to miss out on that! I'll post about the giveaways later when I figure out what I gotta do. I won Grinnin Gramma's drawing and also Connie (Magnolia Street Style) presented me with her Give Back Giveaway. How exciting!

I also wanted to thank you for your nice comments about my new header. I took this photo myself, and now that it's fall, I wish I had something a little more in keeping with the season. I'll see what I can do, and maybe keep this one for spring..... I need to get me a cool-lookin' background like some of you have, too. I need to "keep up with the blogger/Jones' " so to speak.

Well, anyway, we've been so busy with the pageant last Saturday and THIS Saturday is the parade and the ball. I'm tired and ready for this to be over. It's been fun, tho. I'll leave you with this little photo from part of the pageant. It was really a nice pageant and P and all her little court were so pretty. She had 6 little maidens and 6 little pages. Her escort was cute and a little nervous about the whole thing. It's not really a "guy" thing ya know - this whole deal is really a girl thang.

Well, I'll bid you adieu and good nite. I've had a sinus headache all day and only sleep will help it go away!

Our little pond

The sun is going down and everything is golden. We have a small pond on our place and it's pretty full right now. In the summer it goes down but hasn't gotten dry, thank goodness. Jake likes it. He found a beaver out there one day, think I've mentioned that before.

I SOOO wanted to have a photo to show you of our roadrunner. At our main home where we live right now, we have a sliding glass door on the back of the house. Yesterday, when I got off work, I went home and walked by the studio where the glass door is. There gawking at himself in the reflection of the glass was a tall speckled roadrunner. I stood right by the glass and he never saw me. I've never seen one do this--- He preened back and forth in front of the glass, looking at himself, cocking his head, ruffling up the top-knot of feathers on his head, spreading his tail feathers out, turning back and forth, admiring his beauty from every side. Or, perhaps he thought he was wooing a lady roadrunner. Who knows! You've seen parrots, parakeets and cockatiels do this, but I never knew roadrunners did! It was so cute. I didn't move for about 5 minutes. I finally backed up and reached for my camera. I edged around the corner of the house and as soon as he saw me, he bolted back into the pasture. Shoot!

Jake

This photo has nothing to do with anything at all. I'm just enjoying playing with my new camera. We went to the farm this evening just to check on everything and water the flowers. Jake wound up getting all muddy in the pond, and he found an old plastic whiskey bottle that he was having fun with retrieving. I don't know why he does this - whatever he carries around he'll drop it on the ground and then roll on it on his back ---??? What for, I don't know, but he's always done that. Silly dog.

The sun was going down about this time and we didn't get to stay long. The days are getting shorter now and this evening had a lovely golden glow on everything the sun touched. I love those kind of evenings...

Well, gotta go to bed. I'm sleepy... see ya tomorrow.