Homecoming in Red Bay

Once an educator, always an educator...  all things school interest me.  On the way to the post office Friday afternoon, we literally stumbled on Red Bay's homecoming parade.  Main street was blocked.  So why not stop and watch?  No exaggeration - every student in Red Bay Schools (Fulton County Corporation) was in or at the parade.  Most were riding on a fire engine, ambulance, or pick-up truck.  There, of course was a homecoming queen, a football queen (chosen by the football players) and a "queen" for each grade level from 7-12.  I know this only because the lady at the post office was keeping me informed throughout the parade.  She asked me, "I don't suppose you have parades like this  where you are from?"  It sounded like a question, but I think it was really an assumption based on my accent.  Interesting...  the observer being observed.  I told her we had similar celebrations absent the 7th and 8th grade queens and the pee wee cheerleaders.

With any luck at all, our warranty work will pick back up tomorrow.  We had tile installed in the bedroom Friday/Saturday.  While that was being done, we wandered the back roads around Red Bay and drove to Fulton Campground on the Tennessee Tom Bigbee (Tenn-Tom) Waterway.  When we leave Red Bay, we will be spending some time there.  The Tenn-Tom is the waterway folks use to navigate from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico.  It was once our dream to live on a sailboat and travel the Tenn-Tom to get to the Gulf.  Now we'll camp and just look at it. Much safer that way.

Hopefully, the floor in the driver's side slide will be replaced tomorrow.  They have to take the entire slide off the side of the Whale which means we have to take everything out of the cabinets etc.  I call this forced re-organization.  Amazingly, they can complete this in one day.  We have cabinet work done on Wednesday evening on that same slide which means the stuff all has to be taken out again.  That should be the end of the major "fixes" on the inside.

Also while here, we are installing up-dates to our data equipment.  External wi-fi and cell phone antennas with amplifier on the cell phone antenna seem to be the way most are going.  Satellite seems to be falling by the way side.  Jerry and I have two different phone services, and we each have hot spots on our phones.  These give us almost total coverage in the U.S. and secure connections when the wi-fi we are closest to is weak/show/unsecured.  The antennas will boost our service...  we hope.