Hello from Tennessee ....

We did something this week I have never been able to do before.  We loaded up and went to Jill's ... IN OCTOBER!  Harvest is done, plowing is a couple days from being done, Sue wasn't teaching, I wasn't teaching, no Jr Church because it was the last Sunday of the month, and we had some furniture we had been saving for Jill.  So we loaded up and headed south and east.

Here's Jill's house

 Before you get too impressed it is split into 3 or 4 apartments.  We walked around the neighborhood this evening, I guess it is a common thing.  Either someone buys an old house as an investment or they inherit one and don't want to live in it.  Dad the firefighter was impressed to find this right outside her front door

 Saturday evening we went with her to supper at a friend's house.  It was kind of a treat, having a meal at the home of someone whose writings you have been reading in Christian Standard for years.  We went to Hopwood to church with her this morning.

Even met a couple Farmers... Mr and Mrs Farmer that is.  I think both are Doctors, but one in theological and the other medical.  Nice folks.
Seemed a bit odd my daughter being one of the communion servers. Hopwood is attached to the campus of Milligan.   I'd never been there in the fall  Quite pretty.  Here is the entrance to Milligan from about the same spot I took the Hopwood shot.

 Milligan Chapel

In our walk around town we found several flowers blooming that really shouldn't have been.  Like Iris's

 And Dogwood's!

We also got to visit her office

 Dad was impressed with her desk set

I guess she gets her sense of organization from her Dad

Methodist Church across the corner from her house apparently was having a tailgating Halloween party of some kind, complete with inflatables.

 We had a good time.  We're meeting Jill in the morning and then we'll be heading northwest again.