Valentines's Day Adventure!❤️❤️

Hubby and I celebrated Valentine's at Famous Dave's at Cool Springs.
We ordered the Valentine's Special
Celebrate your Sweetheart Famously!
Our BBQ Feast for TWO
Only $24.99 -Save $10
4 corn on the cob, 7 slices brisket, Several ribs, two pieces of BBQ Chicken, a basket full of fries, baked beans, Coleslaw, cornbread muffins, and a bowl of Collard Greens!!!!
YUM! YUM!
I love this place and we do not have one anywhere near where we live.

A Feast for two (corn on the cob, brisket, chicken, ribs, slaw, fries, baked beans, cornbread muffins, collard greens.

We had two boxes of takeaway.
We rode to Hundred Oaks to see the Bedford Falls Train display.
Hundred Oaks is now Vanderbilt Health Center.

A radio station was parked at Hundred Oaks. A man dressed as a Valentine was passing out free ROSES. I took one and thanked him.

Cupid Rhymes with Stupid 96.3 JACK FM playing what we want!

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" 

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The train display was inside a glass case at one of the doctor's offices.
You could see the display from the outside but to get a better view you needed to go into the waiting room.
I meet this little boy about 7 or 8 years old playing with the buttons.
So, together we would go from one to the other buttons to see what each one would do.
One moved the train, one the trolley, one the sky lift, one the ladder truck, one the fire truck, and one the ambulance. I took several pictures of the display.
The little boy wanted to look at the pictures each picture I took so, I would show them to him.
When I got ready to leave the little boy's father said, thank the nice lady for sharing the pictures with you. I told the little boy and I never thought to ask why he was at the doctor's office. He looked healthy so maybe everything was okay with him.

You are now in Bedford Falls
Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which the American Christmas drama It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" (on which the film is based) is set. The Bedford Falls railway station is the main form of transport to get in or out of the town. The location is used only once in the film when Harry (Todd Karns) comes back from university with his wife Ruth Dakin (Virginia Patton) as George and Uncle Billy are waiting there. While waiting there George says to Uncle Billy that a train whistle is one of the three most exciting sounds in the world. The other two were anchor chains and plane motors

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet

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We walked to the electronics store but they did not have what we wanted. We stopped at the Walmart a few streets down and purchased a few items.
We took the highway US 31 there was a lot of road construction in Thompson Station and we rode by Clarks Distillery but was closed
In Spring Hill we stopped at Murphy for gas and Walmart. We also stopped at Dairy Queen for an Ice Cream (they have the best ice cream).


On our way to Nashville, we stopped at the newly rebuilt I-65 Welcome Center at Ardmore Giles County which features eco-friendly solar panels, recycling, and a Geo-Thermal Operating System.
Inside they have five rocking chairs, a fireplace, and a display about the Civil War.

I-65 Welcome Center at Ardmore Giles County 

It was overcast and rained a little, not much of a day for being outside.
We were home by 6:30PM.

2016 ~ February 15 Monday, Taking Classes at the Apple Store

2016 ~ February 15, Spent day at Apple Store taking Classes

Taking five classes at the Apple Store

8-9 AM dentist Appointment 

We went through the drive through at McDonald's for breakfast. 

I ordered egg, sausage, cheese burritos

My husband ordered egg, bacon, bagel.

We arrived a little after 10AM to begin my classes

I had five one hour classes

My husband dropped me off and he went to see the Ophthalmology

10-11 AM Workshop Appointment: Stay Connected 

11-12 PM Workshop Appointment: Sketch, Draw, and Paint with iPad

I ate lunch at Barnes & Noble of Taco Soup, oyster crackers and cookie.

12:45-1:45PM Workshop Appointment: Create Great-Looking Documents with Pages for iPhone and iPad

2:45-3:45 PM Workshop Appointment: Explore Apple TV

3:45-4:45 PM Workshop Appointment: Perfect Your Photos on Mac

We stopped at Cracker Barrel in Athens for Dinner.

I ordered Pinto beans, turnip greens, onion, chow-chow, cornbread & ice tea.

My husband ordered a big breakfast. 

We came home dressed for bed and was watching the X-Files on TV when my husband got a call-out at work around 8:30PM.

   

At work two of the pumps were not doing the job. Three plumbers were called in to fix the problem. 

I did my CBS, while I waited for my husband to finish the job

We stopped for gas on the way home.
We arrived home around 12:00 by that time the rain had moved out.

1989~ My Hysterectomy Adventure!

Summer of 1989, I took five weeks off from work to have a Hysterectomy.

My doctor had found a fibroid in my uterus it was the size of a grapefruit.

He sent the fibroid off and said it was not cancer.

He also said that I could not do any heavy lifting or driving for 5 to 6 weeks after the surgery.

I remember checking in at the Hospital in Muscle Shoals where I was prepped for surgery.

I hate knives and the thought of being cut is terrifying so needless to say I was very nervous about the upcoming surgery.

When my nurse came in she said are you nervous about the surgery? I said yes.

Then the nurse said, “I am going to give you a shot it will relax you.”

The surgery went well and they had me up walking the next day. 

During the surgery, my abdomen was filled with air.

My stomach looked & felt like a balloon ready to pop.

They gave me an enema to relieve the gas, but it did not work.

The nurse said that I needed to walk to relieve the gas.

I walked up and down the halls of the hospital but found no relief.

Finally, I went to the restroom and found relief, it sounded like the air coming from a hot air balloon or a stack of whoopee Cushions.

I was released from the hospital and my middle son came to the hospital to pick me up.

I had a prescription that needed to be filled so we stopped at Kmart’s Pharmacy in Muscle Shoals.

The prescription was for the pain it was Tylenol with codeine.

The doctors wanted me to walk so I walked inside K-mart with my son to get the prescription filled.

A week after I came home from the hospital my daughter-in-law said we are going to the Birmingham Zoo do you want to go? We can rent a wheelchair to push you around.

I had been cooped up in the house for a week since my stay in the hospital and I was ready to get out.

It takes about two and a half hours to drive to the Birmingham Zoo, when we arrived we purchased tickets and rented a wheelchair.

I was still very sore from the surgery, and as I was pushed into the wheelchair I could feel every bump and pothole that we hit.

It made me appreciate people who have to ride in wheelchairs all the time, especially rented ones with no extra padding.

Riding in a Wheelchair

At the Birmingham Zoo, we saw the African elephants throwing dirt onto their backs. We saw giraffes eating leaves from very tall trees. We visit the cages of the Siberian tiger, the roaring lions, the cheetah, the Black Panthers, Snow leopards, and the Jaguar.

We visited Monkey Island which housed hundreds of monkeys.

We saw a family of Gorilla with the mother feeding her young.

We went into the reptile house and saw rattle Snakes, copperheads, coral snakes, Boas, Anaconda, dragon monsters, chameleons, helmet lizards, Iguanas, and many different species of frogs.

Our next stop was to see the Roman God Vulcan atop Red Mountain, he overlooks the city of Birmingham. The Vulcan is 56 feet tall and there is an elevator that takes you to an overlook encircling the statue. 

I had a wonderful time at the Birmingham Zoo & The Vulcan but was sore the next day and I had to take several Tylenol with codeine for pain.

A few weeks later I rode to the Space and Rocket Center with my son and his wife. 

This trip was also fun but I had to take Tylenol with codeine because my stomach had not completely healed from the surgery. 

I spent my time sunbathing on my back porch during the day.

I spent time at the Birmingham Zoo, at the Vulcan, and at the Space and Rocket Center with family.

I went back to the doctor for my six-week check-up and the doctor said I could go back to work.

I was ready to head back to work and it was wonderful to be able to sit behind the steering wheel of my own car.

2013 ~ Thursday, October 11, Day Trip to Montgomery, Alabama

Hubby and I rode to Montgomery and left the house at about 8:30 am.

Ate roast beef sandwiches at Arby’s in Athens.

We stopped in Clanton, Alabama filled up with gas at Jet Pet pump number 16 13.34 gallons at $3.30 per gallon cost $44.00.

Freshly baked peach pie topped with homemade peach ice cream

We then went to Peach Park where we shared a large peach cobbler ($4.75) and peach ice cream ($2.75).

Hubby ordered a hotdog ($2.75) onion rings (2.00) and a drink.

Hank Williams Museum

We went to Hank Williams Museum Alabama’s Troubadour located at 118 Commerce Street Montgomery, Alabama cost $10.00 each.

The museum is filled with Memorabilia of Hank Williams which includes his baby-blue Cadillac, 17 Hank Williams Suits, two life-size portraits that were owned by Hank and Audrey, some of his boots, ties, overcoats, hats, horse saddle, and 1947 Gibson Guitar and many more items

Hank Williams

Historic Markers inside the museum

When 1938, young country singer Hank Williams won a contest on the stage of the Empire Theatre. Born in Butler County, south of Montgomery, on September 17, 1923, Williams learned to play the guitar and sing on the streets of Georgia. Writing songs and performing, he made his way to Nashville, wherein 1949 his "Lovesick Blues" stopped the show at the Grand Ole Opry. Other acclaimed compositions include "Your Cheatin' Heart", Jambalaya,” and "Kaw-Liga".

Williams died on January 1, 1953, and is buried in Montgomery's Oakwood Annex Cemetery.

St John's Episcopal Church

We were given a grand tour of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Montgomery organized in 1834 by a small group of pioneer settlers.

The church has many interesting memorials including the ceiling medallions, 1885 chimes of bells in the tower, and stained glass window art by Charles Connick of Boston.

Capitol building's dome.

We took a self-guided tour of the Capitol building where we saw hanging on the walls the 52 governors of Alabama. It has a cantilevered stairway that spirals up to the third floor. We saw the old Senate Chamber, the old House of Representatives chamber, a sculpture of the only woman governor of Alabama, and the dome overlooking the rotunda on the first floor.

Outside we saw the Confederate memorial, several statues, a rose garden, and an avenue of flags.

Not a fancy building by no means.

Met a family from Wisconsin they were meeting their daughter in Montgomery and were taking his parents to Florida. We talked about the magnolia trees, about all the pecans that lay everywhere on the ground, and how our pecan trees at home were making but falling off the trees with blight

Montgomery's Capitol Building

We walked up and down many streets taking pictures of historic markers in historic downtown Montgomery.

Montgomery City Hall / Funeral for Hank Williams

Montgomery Theater

The Elijah Cook/City of Montgomery vs. Rosa Parks

St. John’s Episcopal Church Organized 1834

Montgomery Freemasonry

Montgomery’s Slave Market

Montgomery’s City Hall was built 1936~37

Montgomery Learning from the Past

Brigadier General Richard Montgomery/

St Johns Episcopal Church Montgomery Labyrinth Gardens

Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879

Murphy House

A Nation Divided/Cradle of the Confederacy

Starke Alabama School 1888~1968 "Omnia Vincit labor~ Work Wins"

History of Alabama State Bar-Dexter Avenue

Court Square

Professor John Metcalfe Starke” Fessor Starke 1860~1941” / Starke University School 1888~1968 located Dexter Avenue

City of Montgomery

Marquis Lafayette

Lucien Dunbibben Gardner Twenty-Second Chief Justice - 1940-1951 next to RSA Dexter building

James Edwin Livingston Twenty-Third Chief Justice 1951-1971

Howell Thomas Heflin Twenty-Fourth Chief Justice – 1971-1977

Clement Clay "Bo" Forbert, Jr Twenty-Fifth Chief Justice 1977-1989

Ernest C. “Sonny” Hornsby Twenty-Sixth Chief Justice-1989-1995

The Alabama Appellate Court

Battle Flag of the Confederacy-located four corners of the Confederate flag

First National Confederate Flag (Stars and Bars)-located four corners of the Confederate flag located four corners of the Confederate flag)

The second National Confederate Flag (Stainless Banner) is located four corners of the Confederate flag

The third National Confederate Flag is located four corners of the Confederate flag

Alabama Confederate Monument 1861~1865 Consecrated to the memory of the Confederate Soldiers and Seamen ~Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, and Navy

Albert L. Patterson-Capitol lawn

Camellia Designated Alabama State Flower-capitol lawn

United States flag Raised over Alabama Capitol April 12, 1865 – capitol lawn

Alabama First Capitals/Alabama State Capitol-capitol lawn

Jefferson Davis June 3, 1808, December 6, 1889/Soldier Scholar Statesman-capitol lawn

John Allan Wyeth Marker-Capitol lawn

Selma to Montgomery March N. Bainbridge Street north of Dexter Avenue

Black members of the Alabama Legislature who served during the Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Organized at 1877 Dexter Ave

Grave of Hank and Audrey Williams

We rode to the Oakwood Annex Cemetery where Hank and Audrey Williams are buried.

There were many markings on his tombstone: Including his hat, his guitar, and his boots.

1.      Now I am so Happy No sorrows insight.

2.      Luke the Drifter

3.      Hey Good looking

4.      Kaw-Liga

5.      Jambalaya

6.      Cold, Cold Heart

7.      Lovesick blues

8.      I just told Mama good by

9.      Men with broken hearts

We met a young man sitting at Hank Williams's gravesite. He said I just had to stop and have a drink with Hank. Had a can of beer in his hand; he was sharing with Hank.

He was traveling from Florida to Southern Virginia.

Montgomery Confederate Hospital

We rode through the Oakwood Annex and St Margaret's cemeteries where I took several pictures of tombstones of Confederate soldiers and several historic markers were located there.

It was a very interesting day, with lots of historic places, and makers, visited the tombstone and museum of Hank Williams, toured the Capitol building toured St. John’s Episcopal Church, and walked up and down many streets taking pictures. We also toured St Margaret's Cemetery.
We had a safe and uneventful ride home.