The sun is warm on my face. My wind chimes play their tuneless melody in the light breeze. The hissing roar of 111 competes with an industrial hum from off toward Algood. I'm sitting on the back deck of a 3bdrm brick house I share (occasionaly)with my longtime Bro Mark. I have landed my one man road show that is my life at yet another address.
I won't go into the events that led to my leaving over there. They are personal "family" business. I'll just say that Dan wanted his house back. I am extremely gratefull for the decade or so of cordial hospitality I enjoyed there. Ann & Dan welcomed me into their home when I had nowhere else to go, and generously allowed me to raise two wonderfull daughters there (With all the drama that entails).Dan all your help with my ongoing cpu woes, and other personal business has been invaluable to me. Anna I will miss us being together again. It was incredibly sweet. Taz,Nicky,and THE Little Bitty Kitty Commitee.."Get off my keyboard!!"
I will miss "the outback" or as Tommy & I liked to call it..The friendly confines. It was like being out in the woods in that backyard-right in the middle of the city. I will miss Grandfather tree enormously. I plan to get a cutting & start another chapter in that story. I'll miss The Knotty Pines Bar, and all the great times I had out there withDad, and especially Tommy. I'll miss the Tech. chimes on the quarter hour..I'll miss that whole neighborhood! (almost)
Their are no L-blocks* here. No halfway houses no street crime. The ambiance here is completely differen't. This neighborhood is NOT hip. It is genteel laidback American Suburbs. This neighborhood hasn't changed in the thirty years I've been coming here. Hank Jr. said it best.."The new south thank God it's still the same. It is all familys here. Mostly boomers,all Tenn. country folk. They walk in the evenings for exersise, or to get their dogs out. They talk to each other, and introduce themselves. And not a loud boombox car thumping that hidious rap garbage for miles..I have landed in heaven on earth.
