Monday morning Bill started a repair project for Pat. The floor by the door and the refrigerator was flexing. The initial fear was that there was rot from the door and this would turn into a giant project involving replacing the door and parts of the floor. For the first time in the entire history of house projects the job was easier than anticipated. When the house was built one of the floor joists was not attached properly. The job was done in a few hours with the help of the tools from the super nice neighbors.
The ease of the repair gave us time to spend time relaxing in the screen room that Bill had assembled for Pat a few years ago.
Pat's dog Hannah keeps a sharp eye on the neighborhood.
Tuesday Pat drove us around the area to see the sights. After running a few errands to the dump and Walmart we visited Loose Threads Quilt Shop. Bill was thrilled! We had an interesting conversation with one of the staff members, Nana Phyllis, who showed us around and shared stories from her trip around the Southwest a few years ago.
After we convinced Bill to leave the quilt shop we went for a walk at Cumberland Mountain State Park.
As we were walking around the lake we thought the trees that had fallen in the water would be a perfect place for a turtle to enjoy the sunshine. A few minutes later we found these turtles working on their tans.
This part of Tennessee has many buildings built with local stone. The ranger's house in the park is located on a stream next to a stone bridge.
There was New Deal project in the 1930s to resettle the area. The Cumberland Homesteads Program built about 250 homes and most of them are still standing. Quite a few of the homes have been added on to and modernized, but the original structure is still visible. The houses were built primarily with locally quarried sandstone called Crab Orchard stone.
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