Aug 12 - Morning In Tennessee

Here we are in God's country, God just practiced on the rest of the Earth before he made Tennessee. We left our house at 4:30 PM Friday.

In the motor home ready to leave. Kelsey is pretty good at snapping photos while holding her phone at arms length.

We stopped at a rest area, about 25 miles into Illinois, and had a picnic supper. We also stopped for fuel, and to stretch our legs, about 30 miles west of Crossville. We arrived at Tom & Mary Lou's campground, we decided to park there rather than at our place, at 4 AM Saturday. I think Doug & Anthony arrived about an hour after us, I was sound asleep by then.
Parked at the campground.

 We had a nice campfire last night. I took these pitiful photos.

 We didn't stay at the campfire all night. We were back out there eating biscuits and gravy and hash browns this morning. Kathy's Dad came for breakfast, he is on the far right. I missed getting Anthony, he was in getting his breakfast, and Melissa, she wasn't up yet, in the photo.

The "official" low temperature last night was 52 degrees. It is supposed to warm up into the mid 80's today.

Yesterday evening we were sitting around under a canopy that Tom leaves set up at the campground. We heard a couple of shotgun blasts and didn't think much about it. Gunfire in rural TN is not an unusual event. Than after one shot something rained down on us. We joked that it was shotgun pellets. The shotgun went off a couple of more times with nothing odd occurring. Then after shot, stuff rained down on us again. By then we were pretty certain that it really was shotgun pellets. Doug and I went looking to see who was shooting. It turned out that it was one of the neighbors, Aster Burgess. He and sometimes one of his brothers, occasionally go down the road/lane to a place where starlings fly across the road just before dusk. They use them for target practice. Since they shoot almost straight up there isn't much danger even if there are people around. We weren't in any danger, but it was an interesting experience. He didn't know there were campers at Tom & Mary Lou's and also didn't think the pellets would have reached the campground even if he had known. He was very apologetic.

We are going for a hike. Have to get gone.

Good day and may God bless.