Day 36, Year 10: Relaxed Saturday with Family
Date: Saturday, November 15, 2014
Weather: Partly Sunny, High in the 40’s, Low in the 20’s
Location: At Home with Janet and Monica in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Today was a relaxed Saturday with family. In the morning, Janet drove Patsy, Mark, and I to the Nashville Public Library. Janet went to do her weekly community outreach project of selling newspapers to homeless folks who then resell the papers for a profit for themselves. While she did that, Patsy, Mark, and I visited the Civil Rights Room in the public library. There are a number of different videos with original footage from the 50’s and 60’s civil rights struggle in this country plus a huge roomful of books. The centerpiece in the room is a round counter with seats bringing to mind the lunch counter sit-ins that took place throughout the South in the early days of the civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Room is on the second floor of the library which has beautiful marble floors and lots of Ionic columns. It is quite an impressive building with a wonderful view of the state capitol. Janet came back to the library to pick us up and we did a quick driving tour of the city. The AT&T ‘Batman’ building caught Mark’s eye as it rises up right in the middle of the city. We drove through Honkey Tonk Row and spotted Tootie’s, one of the most famous of the clubs and bars where many country music stars got their start. We drove through parts of Vanderbilt University and on to Centennial Park where Nashville has its own full-scale replica of the Parthenon. This is another impressive Nashville building done in the Ionic style, but Google tells me its columns are in the Doric style. I laughed out loud when Janet told us that Monica calls these columns ‘funeral’ style. One thing is for sure, they are popular here. We will return to Nashville on late Monday afternoon to see the holiday lights at the Gaylord Hotel in Opryland.
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Once we returned from Nashville, Patsy, Mark, and I spent a great deal of the afternoon going through all of the housing information we have so far. The one house that has caught Patsy’s eye is called the Copper Ridge, a one-level home in a Dell Webb retirement community. So we spent time going through all of the myriad of options and figuring out what she would ‘like’ to have versus what she feels she would really ‘need’ to have in a home. It was a very helpful exercise for all of us and tomorrow we will do some more house hunting with the ‘must haves’ in mind. We spent a great deal of the evening just talking and enjoying our time together here. All in all, it was a most relaxed and delightful day.
