Lincoln County, Tn.

It was a beautiful day yesterday for our short drive up to the cemetery..the boys helped remove the faded flowers to be replaced with new ones...dogwood stems, purple sweet pea, ferns and Ivy...when finished we drove on into Fayetteville, Tn....picked up some bar-b-que sandwiches and drinks...stopped at a park to eat...then went by WalMart before returning the 15 miles back home.

Barbara got a Wii for Christmas

a few of my favorite things

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Caramia's first Christmas

As she is only eleven months old and hasn't a clue about what will be happening all around the world on the morning of Dec. 25. she received my gift to her early...her first baby doll and stroller..

Chattanooga weekend

Barbara's Christmas trip for her family this year was to Chattanooga where we stayed at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel ...it included a ride to the North Pole on the Polor Express train, a visit on the train from  Santa  himself, his helpers who served us gingerbread cookies, chocolate milk and music!!! After the ride we enjoyed great pizza at Lupi's on Market St. downtown Chattanooga...I highly recommend it.  .At 10 pm Santa's Elves visited  the childrens rooms where they told them a story, gave them a gift and tucked them into bed. We had breakfast Sunday morning at the hotel ...a delicious buffet.  Then, as the weather was worsening...very cold, freezing snow flurrys, etc. we headed for home ....a two hour drive from Huntsville. Thank you, Barbara.

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Thanksgiving with my "Texas family"

Brian, Joey, Bobby, Jacob, Eddie and Jack

Laura Beth and Jack

Eddie

Happy 16th. Brian

 Laura and I

SaRita and David

Happy Thanksgiving to all

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Bobby and Brian

Enjoying a slow-paced, quiet morning with two of my best buddies...watching TV

Jack watch us..watching TV

yesterday

Nov. 13th...seven months
April                                                                    



May   new life

June  Nick, Anna and Katy  come for a visit

                (from Texas)

July  Brian and Bobby are here,,for four weeks!

            from Texas

August Nicki is here for a week

                   from Chicago

September  Barb and  I go to Destin

 at school with  Thomas  for Grandparents Day..

October   Ed and Marty are here for a week

                           from Eden Prairie, Mn.

November  

going to Dallas for a week.....

GOD IS GOOD

"say what?"

Idle thoughts at 3am...

Do we not all have  memories of special words or, beter yet, translations of words that our children have amused us with when they were very young?  What came out of the mouth was different than what entered the ear..  Here are three of the Peete family's...that we oft times still use today.

"high heels" became "hill-highs"
"coat hangers" became "hanger-coats"
and my favorite:
"bon fire" became "box-a-fire"

In  2001, while on a visit here is see Barb and David,  we had a bon-fire ...what we burned were boxes... Bobby (grandson) who was 4 years old at the time couldn't get the idea of "bon-fire" in his head...we were burning boxes so therefore it was a "box-a-fire"...don't know where the -a- came from...

What were some of your family's?

Halloween Party Saturday night

Double L and Barb had employees from the shop and their families over for hot dogs, fun and games...I'll have to get pics from Barb's camera as mine was not working good...

Six days of sightseeing, shopping and visiting with family

Brother Ed and 'wife Marty arrieved from Minneapolis this past Wednesday...'first time they've been to Alabama since Bob and I moved here. They came to Dallas last summer...prior to that it had been several years since we visited.

He did some work around my house for me...installed a ceiling fan/light fixture in my little "work room" and spent a few hours every day cleaning up my computer...seems to have gotten rid of most of the problems I was having. Marty enjoys reading so whenever we weren't running around she spent her spare time engrossed in a book.

On Saturday we had resevations in Fayetteville, Tn. for lunch at Miss Bobo's.. Originally built in 1867 and named the Salmon House, it served as a traveler’s hotel, operated by Dr. E.Y. Salmon. In 1908, Jack and Mary Bobo purchased the property and named it the Bobo Hotel. Miss Mary Bobo ran the boarding house until her death in 1983, just a few days before her 102nd birthday. The property was then purchased by the Jack Daniels Company.
Miss Bobo's is now run under the direction of Jack Daniel's great-great niece, Miss Lynne Tolley.

"Lynchburg is the seat of Moore County, the smallest county in Tennessee. Even though it’s home to the Jack Daniels Distillery, it’s a dry county and has been ever since Prohibition. And while the Distillery may be the main attraction here, you don't want to miss other local favorites like lunch at Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House and a trip to the Lynchburg Hardware And General Store."

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We did not tour the Distillery but continued on over to Sewanee, Tn.  Sewanee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County and is the home of the "University of the South". The population was 2,361 at the 2000 census. ...

 

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last Saturday we did the "BellBuckle" thing...

Caramia

School Day's,

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nothin' much

girl with a bow

The Bridge

The back porch

the "office"

I finally got it un-cluttered ?? at least, the floor is uncluttered :)

Two of My Favorite Little Girls