Tuesday, March 24, 2009

greetings from Red Bay





This picture my friend is all us 'happy campers' sitting and waiting for service in Red Bay Alabama. Tiffen has a sort of campground, lets say we have water, electric and sewer, and there is a large grassy lot where the guys can run and play Frisbee. You wait until you are contacted by the service manager and they will schedule your service and it can take time if you have a big issue. Luckily we have some windows on recall to be replaced so we are scheduled for some time tomorrow. Now remember when you get the call, the slides have to come in, raise the lifts, bring in the electric line, sewer line, water hoses. Move things so they don't fly around, and off you go which is simply around a corner to a bay where hopefully your problems are solved. Meanwhile you sit and wait.


I want to have the carpet replaced with wood flooring which I have in the kitchen and hallways but of course this is a problem and will require a week, no way that is being done now so we will head home at the end of the week stopping in Louisville KY to visit friends.






Now this picture was taken at the Coon Dog Cemetery in Cherokee Alabama, just up the road from us. Kind of interesting Only coon dogs can be buried there and the graves are marked with stones, wooden boards with names burned in, metal markers. Kind of cool Our next stop, before we leave, will be Tupelo Mississippi- about an hour away from here and ELVIS's birthplace. Now how could we pass that up The purpose of traveling is to stop and visit these places and I am amazed at how many of them are out there. Helen Keller's birthplace is about an hour north but i am opting for ELVIS this time out. Should have some great pictures to add to my blog. Admit it folks, i am doing better.

2 comments:

Ann Miller said...

Okay...I admit it...you are getting better! I love it when you post...and the pictures do help tell the story.

Can't wait to see you guys!

Janet said...

Lindsay, You are doing much better. I hadn't caught up with you for several posts. Rain and 4 dogs, sounds like it could be an official air freshner scent. :-) It sounds like you guys are having a good time, aside from the rain and other parts of the learning curve. There are alot of places out there to see. Jess has been researching places around south east Kansas, that we can see if we go out there in May. So far we have 'truck-henge', someone who has buried trucks at different levels, to resemble stonehenge. Not sure I spelled that right. Then someone in my class said we should look up Cadillac Ranch, in amarillo, Texas, where they have a cadillac from several different years buried nose first, again sticking out of the ground. Maybve not earth shaking, but interesting and a good topic of conversation? perhaps. Look forward to seeing you. JJJ