Texans in Tennessee

After 10 wonderful days at home, we received a call to Tennessee for more crop work. We were very excited for the opportunity to get to go back to work. We loaded and left on Monday December 3rd and enjoyed the 1000 miles of driving. We arrived in Dyersburg, TN on Tuesday afternoon. It is the most enjoyable town we have stayed in. The people are the most friendly!! A far cry from our stay in Montana. We love the country side. Rolling hills and so many quaint homesteads. Our work will keep us here until December 22--then we thankfully get to go home for Christmas. The company has so much work here, they have welcomed us back for the month of January too. We are so thankful! The area has suffered such drought here, so we are working every crop. We have done losses on Soybeans, cotton and corn. It is our first experience with cotton, so that has been a huge learning experience. We actually are on the western side of the severe drought that you have heard all about through the last months. This area has began getting some rain--in fact it hasn't quit raining here for the last 3 days, so it is much appreciated!!!

Curtis and I always hate the dreaded long days of Sunday. We always try to attend a church and then the rest of the day is so boring.

So, this last Sunday, we had the opportunity to attend our very first NFL game. The Tennessee Titans were playing in Nashville, which is about a 21/2 drive from here where we are staying. We loaded up early Sunday morning and headed out for the big game. We had no tickets and was literally traveling on the fly. The Internet showed a complete sell-out!! We arrived in the smokey mountain city got our $10.00 parking and set out to find a way to get in. Within 1 block of walking, we were approached by a guy that wanted to sell 2 tickets. YEAH we were in!!! We walked approximately one mile to the stadium and were in total awe!!! People were coming from everywhere--even by boat!!! We were not totally in the nose bleeds--but very close. We could as least still make out the numbers on the players backs!!! lol. We had the greatest time, not only watching the game, but watching the people. The first 3 quarters were quiet slow moving--but the game got very exciting--Titans had them beat the whole game and in the last 5 minutes the Chargers came back and tied the game. OT started and the Titans lost 17-23.

We enjoyed the walk downtown Nashville--we parked beside the Country music hall of Fame and was 4 blocks from the Ryman Auditorium. Curtis and I had visited Nashville on our 10 year anniversary and had already toured all these great places.
We did drive over to the Opryland hotel and check out all the great Christmas decorations!! Everything was beautiful!! It was so dark inside not one of my pictures turned out very well.

Back to reality and back to work on Monday!! I will be posting again soon!!
Until then......