We cleaned
house and then just hung out yesterday. I
finished the book, Beach Music by Pat Conroy – thanks Robyn for sharing
it with me, it was a very good book. I’ll
have to look for more of his books. I made
these “Oaty Rhubarb Streusel Bars” because we still had rhubarb leftover. I got the recipe off of www.recipe.com and it turned out really good. You’ll note that we sampled them before I got
a picture. We finished up the evening
with the NASCAR Truck Race from Eldora, OH.
They were dirt racing and it was really good.
The weather
was beautiful today. We headed into
Nashville early and our first stop was Lincoln Technical College. Greg graduated from there over 45 years ago
and believe it or not it has changed some.
The campus is much larger now and the name has changed, it used to be
Nashville Auto Diesel College before Lincoln Technical College bought it. A lot of the buildings are the same but have
been updated – it looks like a very busy school.
From there
we went to Centennial Park, it was built in 1897 as part of the 100th
anniversary of Tennessee becoming a state.
This is a great park, you need to visit if you get to Nashville. There is a replica of the Parthenon
there. I couldn’t figure out whether it
was built actual sized or scaled down, but it was huge.
We didn’t
walk through all of the gardens but the ones we saw were magnificent.
We (I) were
getting hungry so we split a hamburger from one of the food trucks available.
We noticed
something was being set up around the Parthenon and asked a park ranger about
it. They were preparing to shoot a
segment of the TV show “Nashville” there tonight. Wow, what a lot of preparation goes into
that. Semis filled with sound equipment
and others filled with food were being unloaded.
When we got
back home we checked it out on line and found that they were advertising for
extras in the local newspaper. It is a
non-paying job and they have to be there from 7p.m. to 3 a.m. But evidently they didn’t have any trouble
finding enough people because they made a later post that indicated they could
no longer take any more names.
From the
park we went downtown Nashville to look around.
I was amazed at all of the bars, big and small where entertainers were
looking to make it big. Printers Alley
was where they used to go to be discovered, I think there are other more prime
spots now.
We saw the
Ryman Auditorium and Tootsie’s Orchard Lounge
and then went on to the Country
Music Hall of Fame. We could have
probably spent more time in the Hall of Fame but our time in our parking space
was running out.
Supper was
simple tonight – but really good – Soup with hot French bread dipped in garlic
mushroom olive oil and a glass of wine.
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