To Nashville

We arrived in Nashville after a long drive and a bad thunderstorm. As I (Debbie) was driving through the heavy rain I kept my eys peeled for funnel clouds. It turns out that more people are killed each year in TN tornados than any other state!! More about this later.....So we arrive at Rick and Kelly Rigali's in the ourskirts of Nashville better known as Antioch. We will be here until Sunday afternoon. In the mean time Stan is building a storage closet/pantry for our hosts and I am seeing herb clients. Rick and Kelly have an old stone house on a small hill in a beautiful setting. We just saw several deer cross the back of their property. I will eventually include a picture of the view out their kitchen window. They have recently added a large kitchen and they have lots of things that need to be done on their house. Stan is doing the top item on the list.

This was the day that the emergency radio kept going off. It is the sound of a siren coming from the kitchen every time there is weather to be warned about. I am getting used to the sound, but there is still something ominous about it. It must have gone off 7 or 8 times this day. It was more for thunderstorms than for tornados, but there was one definite warning. Fortunately, it was far enough away not to be a concern. It went off one last time after we were in bed so I laid there wondering how much time we would have to grab our things and run down 2 flights of stairs to get into the basement. Eventually, I fell asleep and awoke unscathed in the morning.