Time With Longways, Week 2

Our second week with John and Barbara has been busy.
We drove through downtown Nashville, stopping at the Old Fort Nashborough

and touring the Parthenon, built for the 1897 Centenniel Exposition, it is a full scale replica of the original one in Greece.



Then we drove on east to the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home

and gravesite.

Sunday, we took them to our church, then met the kids at our house for pizza in the afternoon. Nate gave them the grand tour of his house before he had to go to work.

Monday we visited the Carter House in Franklin where the five bloodiest hours of the "War of Northern Aggression" occurred. Thousands of bullet holes still mark the buildings.



And then got the grand tour of Karyn's house
Nate and Chris came out to stay on Monday night and stayed until Wednesday. They got a taste of what retirement was like.... eat and sleep and sit and talk!! Tuesday we took a hike (more like a walk) at Fall Hollow.




Wednesday we visited Hohenwald, visiting an antique store (where we got some good deals) and junk (and I mean junk) stores!
It is a cute town, large enough to have a Walmart, an Elephant preserve (not open to the public) and has a great little park with this gazebo at the center.


Wednesday night, we were under severe storm warning. Hail was expected, so we covered the jeep as best as possible to avoid damage.

Poor John and Barbara, they already had hail damage to the hood and top of their tow vehicle from Oklahoma storm before they got here!
Paul then went to bed at 9.... John, Barbara and I went to the clubhouse at the campground to watch the progression of the storm on TV as it moved from the west toward us. Since living here, I do not remember seeing such a massive storm front headed in our direction! We all went to the basement when the TV went out about 11:30.

It hit with straight line winds of 60 miles per hour at about midnight, and Paul decided the rocking in the RV was a bit rough, so headed to shelter as well. We were treated to a concert by the WeaverBelievers again, and it made the rest of the time go fast!

It was a great party! We got back to the RV about 1:30AM.
The next morning as we headed out we could see a lot of very large old trees split and huge branches down.
Since we were in the Spring Hill area on Thursday, we stopped by the house and all was well there. There were some large tree branches across the street that were down, but none in our yard, and none caused damage. So we praise the Lord for his protection of us and our property!