Day 1 - Nashville Flea Market

This was our first trip to the Nashville Flea Market held at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds every month. Guess because it was winter the turn-out was not what was expected. Still managed to buy a bag full of old bottle caps, some old hardware, doorknobs, keyholes, and a wonderful oak dentist cabinet that would be classified as a fixer-upper. Picked up a brochure featuring Franklin, TN and it said Franklin's antique district was in the top 5 in the country according to Country Living. So the jalopy heads to Franklin tomorrow morning to see what we can see. There's a 10 foot trailer just begging to be filled. More adventures tomorrow from Franklin!

Bay City General Store

Here goes another day..........

Just when I think I can't possibly add any more blogs to my favorites list, I do. If my day starts right, I'm sitting at my computer (no webcam please) with a cup of coffee touring my favorite blogs. From my upstairs window I can see the sun rising over the Ohio River, which is never a disappointment. And in a matter of minutes I can go around the world visiting blogs and talking to people I've never met. For those of you who blog you will understand this..........I start with one blog, and that leads to another and another and another until you feel like you fell down Alice's rabbit hole. Sometimes I have no idea where I started. This morning was one of those blog journeys and this is where I ended up. Oh my, I could just see my whole entire day evaporate right before my very eyes - such wonderful projects for my junk collection. And what inspiration for our buying trip to the Nashville, TN flea market this weekend. The photo above actually has nothing to do with this post - I just love the photo and thought you might like to see where our "junk market style" hangs its hat.
What's that? I hear the washing machine calling my name!
Later

Road Trip

It's time to head out of the City, Bay City that is, and point the jalopy towards Music City. We hear there is a ginormous flea market there this weekend and we're going to check it out for ourselves. Don't you just love this old photo? This was actually taken in front of our general store many many years ago. When one of these contraptions pulled in front of the store I'm quite sure it drew a crowd. For Bay City that could be 5 or 6 people! These vehicles drew crowd just like these old paddlewheelers draw a crowd still today. They travel our river with a quiet and stately grace. They sneak up on you. You can be minding your own business plugging away at the computer or washing dishes and glance up and there one is right outside our window. Sadly 2008 was the last year they will cruise the rivers of this great fly-over country. The economy has caught up with them too. We will miss the Queens..........their appearance always caused quite a stir in these parts no matter how many times you had seen one. The news would travel fast up and down the river.........DJ, this is Calvin, a Queen is headed down river! Jerry, this is DJ, DQ is coming! Homer, DQ alert, grab your camera! And no matter what we were doing, we'd grab our cameras and binoculars and head to the riverfront to watch their graceful passing. Sometimes on a really quiet day we could hear the riverlorian telling the passengers "Folks, this is Bay City, where they shot the airplane crash scene from U.S. Marshals starring Tommy Lee Jones." One of the Queens even stopped Hollywood during the filming so they could all watch her stately cruise up river. Good-bye Queens! Thanks for all the good memories!

Now I'm really getting out there...

This is a test folks...........I'm trying to create an active link to our website. We'll see how this goes -- I'm usually pretty good at following directions until it comes to technology or math or assembling something but otherwise I'm really good at directions. OK, maybe not so much. But if you are looking for a scenic, quiet, relaxing getaway on the Ohio River Scenic Byway then this is your place.