Busy Thursday

We headed out quite early...before 7am...to head to Murfreesboro for Woody to have another skin cancer taken off his nose. This one was squamish cell...very superficial...pretty much all she had to do was scrape it off. This appointment was all done in a very timely manner. When we left we headed in the direction of Melany, Wade, Erin and Alex's. We wanted to drop off Alex's birthday present...early for a change! He will be sixteen in a couple of weeks...my...time does fly! We handed the gift to Erin (Alex was helping at a church day camp and Melany was at her college class) and then headed back to Tullahoma. This time we traveled the interstate both ways...on the way to Murfreesboro as we couldn't be sure of road conditions on the back roads after last night's storms. We didn't want to get delayed since we had an appointment. Then on the way home we had a couple of errands to run in Manchester so again used the interstate. As you can see in one of tonight's photos it was a bit foggy on the way there. With all the rain lately...fog is the norm in the early morning hours. We made a stop at the Manchester public library (a part of our counties public library system so we can use either the library in Tullahoma or Manchester). We both found books that we wanted to read. Then we stopped and got the tag renewed for one of our cars. And, before getting all the way home, we stopped at the fruit and vegetable stand for tomatoes. The owner told Woody that a big tree had fallen in a yard across the road from the back of our back yard and Nathan and Kathy's lot. So we came home to check that out. It is hard to see in the pictures just how big this tree is...but a very large oak tree. I know that the people who live in the house on that property had to be so thankful for the direction that the tree chose to fall! It did land partly across their driveway, but didn't touch their cars or house. This tree fell around 7:30 this morning...we would have probably heard the boom as it landed if we had been at home. It has rained so much lately that old top heavy trees like this one sometimes just uproot and fall. And, last night we had a couple of storms rumble through...one had rather high winds as noted by all branches/limbs down in yards and streets...so though it didn't fall last night...last night's rains and winds may have been this tree's "last straw!" By the time I got the photos taken of the tree and checked out our gardens, it was just about lunch time. After lunch I was ready for a rest...so settled in with the book that I had gotten at the library as did Woody with the book he got. I dozed a bit too. Late afternoon we headed over to one of the funeral homes in town for the visitation of one of our friend's mother. On our way home we stopped and got a summer treat supper...DQ Blizzards. They pulled us in again with one of their buy one get one free coupons! After that I got lost in reading my book again...and just realized a little while ago that it was time to blog and needed to download (or is it upload?) my photos from my cameras. So did that, chose blog photos, and have now written a bit of drivel...so now...back to my reading!