Lat night we watched some spectacular fireworks. Every year the City puts on a free show that is accompanied by the Nashville Symphony. I heard estimates that almost 200,000 people were downtown last night to watch the fireworks show. That is incredible. Thankfully, we avoided that mass of people downtown and went to a little place that I know about on a hill near the fire department. It was very nice weather, the show was great and we were home in less than 20 minutes after it was over.
Category Archives: Holidays
Holiday Weekend
This weekend is the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The price of gas shot up almost 30 cents a gallon yesterday, as it always does right before a big traveling weekend.
I know a lot of people will be heading for the beach. We are staying home this year. Our vacation won’t come until October when we go to DC for two weeks
Looking forward to watching the fireworks here – we’ll probably go downtown rather than the show being hosted by the new shopping center in Mt Juliet. The traffic is bad downtown but it is ten times worse in Mt. Juliet. I’m sure the fireworks show will be just as good at either place, so I’m choosing the one with the least traffic congestion after it is over.
How Many Candles?
The problem with being this old is that there’s just too many darn candles burning on top of your birthday cake. I mean, there’s enough to set off the fire alarms in the office conference room already! But some brave soul decided to risk the fire alarm and bought me a birthday cake, which we gathered in the conference room to share this afternoon. That was really cool.
They also gave me a birthday card that someone had passed around the office – behind my back – and had everyone sign it.
Welcome to Twenty Ten
This is the start of a new year and also a new decade. The year Twenty Ten has great promise for us all, as our President gets settled into office and is able to use his influence to create the great changes that he has promised to bring us. There have been some economic stimulus plans, such as “cash for clunkers,” that were a huge success. Now we need to see some serious, lasting jobs created and help for Americans to keep or buy homes, and a new approach to our health care.
Christmas at Home
Looks like I’m the only one who won’t be gathering with the family at the homeplace this year. Everyone in my family lives within an hour or two of my mom’s house except for me. It is a 14 hour drive to get to mom’s house, door to door, which is a long hard day of driving, and to be honest, I’m not up for that long of a drive in one day. I would need to stay overnight at a roadside motel to get some rest and not take the chance of an accident due to driver fatigue.
The cost of gas has risen so that just paying for gas up and back is cost prohibitive. It costs $70 to fill the tank and I estimate it would take 3 tanks to get there, one tank to visit locally and then 3 tanks back. That is a lot of money for gas that could be better spent benefiting my family instead of some Arab sheik.
So we are staying home this year and I guess we will get everyone on the video cam sometime around noon to exchange Christmas wishes among the family.
Merry Christmas to all!