Time in Tennessee coming to an End

Our time in Tennessee looks like it will be coming to a close the end of this week. Our claim status has dwindeled considerably!! Strange as it may sounds, most farmers that we lack are farmers that have been in TEXAS to custom harvest. We laughed thinking that we could have done most of this work in January right from our home, for the Southern Division of the company that we are working for. Kinda crazy huh?? Looks like we will be home next weekend--and we will acutally get to stay home for a week before attending a school in Dallas. We both are looking forward to it!!
I had spoken about tornado sirens in my previous blog, and I have posted a couple of pictures of damages that we saw. The tornado was 5 miles from our motel and did quiet a bit of damage to the small town of Popular Grove. It is so sickening to be driving by and witnessing families trying to gather what belongings that they have left after such a storm. Friends, neighbors helping clean up the mess along beside the families is extraordinary! We have since passed this sight many times and it is amazing to see just what 3 days does, you can hardly tell anything had happened--except the two homes that were destroyed.
Our weekends get extremely long away from home and we always try to find something to pass some time on Saturday---Last weekend we drove over to Memphis and visited the Memphis Zoo. If you are ever near Memphis and have some time, I highly recommend the zoo. It was great! We couldn't have ask for better weather--60 degrees and absolutely no wind. We spent a considerable amount of time looking at all the animals--but while we were there--the monkeys began communicating to one another--and my goodness, the noise was indescribable. One began its squawk, then another joined in--then another, then another. It did not matter our where abouts in the zoo, it could be heard. We ran back to see first hand and the crowds made no difference to these monkeys!! They were a riot!!
This Saturday we again had lots of time on our hands and we went back to Memphis for the annual RV show. We made note last week that there was going to be a boat show and thought we would enjoy attending something like that. Low and behold we had the wrong dates down and got to see a convention center full of RV's. Now I am telling you--these RV's are better than our home. It was an adventure and quiet interesting to say the least. These salesman pushing to sell us an RV for $300,000.00 was amazing. We have often talked about getting an RV for our work, but after seeing the prices and putting a pencil to our work--we will continue to choose the motel!! There are so many pros and cons about fellow employees having their own home to take with them--but I personally do like the motel. It is really hard to believe that we have spent 41/2 complete months in a motel room. We have learned pack light, pack organized and use all the essentials the motel has to offer.
Being downtown Memphis we visited the world known "RENDEVOUS" restuarant. This place is known for its ribs and bbq. It is in an old basement and all meat is cooked by the broiler to heat a old motel. They are known for their famous "RUB" on their ribs. Elvis, Rolling Stones and many other famous people have eaten here. It was an experience finding it in an alley and underground. Besides FREEZING, we had a great day.
We woke today with it being 20 degrees!! To cold to do anything outside. We attended church and have settled ourselves in to a day to watch the next to the last football games of the seaon.(To bad for Dallas)
Not knowing our next adventure I will be keeping you posted...
Until then.......