Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENNIS :)

A lazy Sunday

It was a warmer morning, I was up early, went up and did a couple loads of laundary and had a nice shower before Ken was up. We had breakfast at Tunica McDonalds and took a little walk thru the nature trail behind the museum. We found these strange fungi, have never seen round fungi before.
We got back to the RV and the cats were still fast asleep, it was a good day to relax and watch TV movies.

Tomorrow we will be hitting the road again.

Frozen H2O

I woke up to no water, the temp must have gotten in the teens. There was only 1 bottle of water in the frig and the cats water dish was empty, so I shared the bottle half for them and half for my morning coffee. (I now have 3 bottles of water in the frig and a gallon of water for the toilet for the next frozen H2O morning.) We went to Waffle House for breakfast and back to Clarksdales WalMart Ken saw a toy he wanted to get for the grandkids and it wasn't at the Walmart in Memphis. We also stopped at a Pecan road side store, so we have pecans and peanuts to snack on. The cotton left in the fields after harvesting sort of looks like snow, we stopped and took a few samples to look at.
(We had water again when we got back.) (Some interesting info?)

A 550 lb bale of cotton will make 12oo pillowcases, growing season for cotton is 160 days, not all the bolls ripen at the same time when they were picked by hand they would go out 3 times to pick, now they wait til most of it is ready and machine pick it.

Another Cold Day

We have been visiting the other casinos to see what they are like. Our favorite is still the Hollywood but Harrahs is next. I couldn't believe there are $100 slots, the Horseshoe and Sam's Town seem to have more of the higher $$ slots. We still have 5 more to look at, don't think we'll get to them all.
It's still cold here, last night was 24 degrees and only 43 today and another cold nite tonight.
Ken also wanted to go to WalMart today only a closer one, 23 miles north just outside Memphis, to get a few things and get his Subway fix. I don't know what we did before WalMart!

Mississippi Blues Trail

We needed to find a WalMart, Ken needed prescriptions refilled and Clarksdale 30 miles south had one and it is on the Mississippi Blues Trail so we drove down. The Delta Blues Museum is there plus several blues joints. There was no photography allowed in the museum so I took this from their brochure, it is a reconstruction of Muddy Waters log cabin which was on Stovall Plantation. Clarksdale is known as the "Birthplace of the Blues" and is a mecca for blues enthusiasts from around the world. The ticket agent at the museum was from Wichita KS and moved there because he played the blues. We decided to have lunch at Ground Zero a blues club and restaurant owned by Bill Luckett, and actor and local resident Morgan Freeman and Howard Stovall. I had a down-home plate lunch and Ken a BLT. Everything is covered with signatures of patrons, I mean everything but the food.

We then visited a couple of eccentric shops filled with expensive folkart. I liked the bleach bottles covered with fabric scraps, beads and bits and pieces of stuff, the price tag was $100, I think I read it right. I should get busy, huh!!!

A visit to Graceland

Still Chasing butterflies

We were out looking at Victorian houses in Memphis today and I spotted this little guy on the sidewalk. It is a Red banded hairstreak, a new one for me I believe. They do stray north to Mo but more common here in the south. I also saw a Painted Lady and a Monarch today, temp was near 60 this afternoon. Our big thing to do today was ride the trolley, it costs a $1, they are beautiful old trolleys with wooden interiors. We went back to Beale St from Riverside Dr Visitor Center. We had BBQ ribs today at Superior Restaurant and Bar which had live music today.

Each moment is a place you've never been. Mark Strand