a short walk

I walked down to see what George was doing with the tree. All the branches are off and cut up. Now the hard part, the big trunk.



This is the 'road' down to where the tree is. That light pole is in my yard. The grass tips are purple now.

Then I walked out to Dan's. That is about 30 minutes of walking.

Something for Patsy to read

Dr. Thomas Walker's Journal here
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/squabble/walker.html

Ambrose Powell accompanied Walker on his jurney and discovered Powell Valley which was named after him. Maybe our Powell DNA will match up with Ambrose Powell.

Miles

Acording to the white truck, it is 2.3 miles to Callen's branch and 3.5 miles to Coin. So, I walked 7 miles today. I wonder how long it took Patsy and Richard to walk this when they went to school there. I know they went down to Morris' and crossed the creek there. Did they then cut across the fields or walk the road to the school house? I would hate to walk that every winter day, twice a day.

A walk to Church

This morning we were fogged in. This is my yard at 7:30 am when I started my walk.




I walked all the way to the Coin church house. This is the slab at Coin, taken from the other side looking back across the slab. See the huge tree that Ike washed up on the slab?



This is the view down the creek from the Coin slab, looking towards home.



This is Mary Anderson's house. It does not look like anyone lives here now, now car in the drive, but it is still very well kept and a very pretty house. I don't know if Mary still owns it or not. She has lived in town for 20 years or so.



These are JR's horses. I don't know how far I walked. I am going to take the truck and measure it and also see how far it is to Callen's branch were I went yesterday. Just because I want to know. They say to walk at least 30 minutes a day for your health. Yesterday I walked 1 hr and 50 min. I know I said 3 hours but that was wrong and I think it is 4.5 miles to Callens Branch. Today I walked from 7:30 til 10:15. That is 2 hrs and 45 minutes, so if I just walk 30 minutes or so each day this week, I will be doing good.

I am going to go see how far I walked today.

Walking

I walked to Callen's branch slab today. That is about 3.5 miles and it took almost 3 hours. It was overcast with the sun just starting to break out when I got back home at 9.



This is the hill just past the Stone place just past where the spring runns across the road. This was taken from the first corner looking back up the hill toward the stone place. Two turkeys flew out of the tops of the trees at the edge of the hill right here. See where Ike blew down a tree and someone cut it up.

What Ike brought

He blew this tree over on the fence between us and Dan. This is maybe 100 yards or so up the fence line from the ditch below the pond.

Greg is home because he had to evac Texas becasue of Ike and becasue the woman wanted to go back to the boyfriend. I hope he has learned his lesson this time.




Here you can see it on the fence. It is a huge oak tree.


I took this from the road by Daddys old barn. The down tree is the empty looking space after the first tree just to the right of the middle of the picture. This is for Helen. Click to enlarge it and you can see Morris hill.