2023 Dec 20, Christmas Tree Trails, and Christmas Card Lane Madison & Decatur, AL

Today was another busy day. We rode to the RSA to take 7 hot Domino's pizzas to Hubby's old co-worker for Christmas lunch.

After lunch, we rode to Madison. I walked among and took pictures of the Polar Express Christmas Trees there.

Polar Express Christmas Tree in Madison
A Christmas Story  

Next, we rode up one side and down the other to take pictures of Madison's Christmas Card Trail. 

Merry Christmas, Welcome to Alabama 

We stopped at Ollie's in Madison to pick up a few items.

Then we rode to Decatur, stopping at their Enchanted Forest Trail. (It looked as if a hurricane had blown through.) 

The Enchanted Forest Christmas Tree 

We stopped at ALDI USA in Decatur to pick up a few more items for our Christmas Meal.

We saw 3 red-tailed hawks on power lines on the way home. 

Our last stop was at Wheeler Dam, where we saw several White Pelicans, many cormorants, and a few gulls.

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." 

❤️❤️

The train display was inside a glass case at one of the doctors' offices.
You could see the display from the outside, but to get a better view, you needed to go into the waiting room.
I met this little boy, about 7 or 8 years old, playing with the buttons.
So, together we would go from one button to another to see what each one would do.
One moved the train, another the trolley, a third the sky lift, a fourth the ladder truck, a fifth the fire truck, and a sixth the ambulance. I took several pictures of the display.
The little boy wanted to look at the pictures, so I would show them to him.
When I got ready to leave, the little boy's father said, "Thank you for sharing the pictures with me I told the little boy, and I never thought to ask why he was at the doctor's office. He looked healthy, so 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) returns from university with his wife, Ruth Dakin (Virginia Patton), while George and Uncle Billy are waiting there. While staying 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, where there was a lot of road construction in Thompson Station. n rode by Clarks Distillery, but it was closed.
In Spring H, ill we stopped at Murphy for gas and Walmart. We also stopped at Dairy Queen for some 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 6:30 P.M.