Life is back to Normal

Well, as normal as normal can be. Jim came home late Monday afternoon and as anyone following this knows I was anxiously waiting. Yesterday was spent running around. We had to take his rental back first off and while we were down in Dickson we thought we'd go and walk around down town. That's the coolness of living in the country the towns are all so quaint. Some you have to use your imagination and look at it and wonder what it was like in days gone by. The stores are closed up and all that remains are the memories of those days gone by. In downtown Dickson there are a lot of those. On the main street though they are trying to bring it back with a newness. Mixed in with the old antique places are new stores...the boutiques, the little lunch place with tables near the window and just looking in makes you want to have lunch there, the coffee shop, gourmet of course with a little courtyard and the gifty type shops. There is a little Playhouse where we will be going to see our friend Tommy from The Coffee Cabinet perform in "Are You Being Served" this Friday evening. There is one family owned store with all the jeans and western shirts and regular shirts you can imagine but it does make me wonder how they are surviving as the prices are very high. $29.99 for jeans you can buy at discount


in Wal-Mart for $10 up. Carhart products galore for the farmer. There is also a depot in town even though there is no train service it looks like CSX is using it as a maintenance headquarters for there employees. I would love to see this part of town come back to life. Dickson is the closet to civilization without traveling to Clarksville, Jackson or Nashville. They have a multi cinema, Ruby Tuesday, Applebees and a Cracker Barrel along with the super stores , a Lowe's, Fashion Bug and the evermore car dealorships. These of course are on the outside of the "proper" town.

From Dickson we went back to our own little town and had another cup of coffee before coming up the hill to home. Waverly has done quite a bit fixing up our downtown it is quaint and clean which Dickson still has to work on that part. We now have our two specialty coffee shops and a few boutiques in town and I thought I heard them talking about plays and such at the high school so I think we might even have our own little Actors Guild. I used to live in Clinton, CT which was a nice small town (in winter) and Waverly kind of reminds me of that..maybe that's what drew me to it. I haven't met or rather made serious friends but we do have a lot of acquaintances and people around town do know us. This mostly from being regulars at The Coffee Cabinet.

Today is going to be rather quiet as we have to wait on the Direct TV guy to come switch out our cable box in the living room which managed to crap out on me while Jim was gone....Murphy's Law.Jim has to fix the hub on the wheel of the RV before we can move it and he will take it in tomorrow to have them check out the brakes and put tires on the front. Of course we will go to get coffee as what would a day be without that. Laura at The Daily Bread that shares space with the Coffee cabinet is making a special order for me of French Bread and I can't wait to see how that is. If it's good I'll probably have her make it for me every few weeks.

Last night I did manage to organize all my paper tutorials into two notebooks but I have yet to do my computer stuff. Monday night while Jim was doing his teleconference I did a LO with Terrell's new b/w movie kit and of course I did Sam Elliott. "Hunka Hunka Burning Love" Love that man. Well, second after my own Hunk.
I decided not to upgrade my software yet as I really can't justify the cost and I'm not into doing my own design work YET so I'll wait. maybe if all works out and I do work for the company "someday" I'll get it then. Till then I'm going to look into my PSP8 as I think it does even more than PSE5.

I believe fresh made onion soup will be on my menu for this evening with French Bread slathered with butter. LOL Well not butter Smart.

Tomorrow Scarlett