Tennessee Jimmy Harrell was back home in Morristown East Tennessee this week to visit his Mom and family. Unfortunatly, I had to work a lot this week, but I did have a day off so I went out to see him. It is about a four hour drive, almost the same as Long Beach to Paso Robles CA. Andrew was actually in East Tennessee the same time to see his brother who was running for Tennessee FFA office. But with the timing, we did not get to meet up. His brother did win, and is the current FFA state president, so that is awesome. I was about 15 miles out of Morristown when I felt something wrong with my car, I’ve actually never had a flat tire, I have fixed them more than once for other people. My Dad taught me how to change a flat, not so much for when I get one, it was more of a, “Son, someday a cute girl is going to get a flat tire and you don’t want to be the guy that doesn’t know what to do, besides call AAA.” Good call Pops.
My tire was completely blown out, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but Mr. Chevrolet decided to put little plastic lug nut caps over the lug nuts, and one of them had broken off, so I couldn’t get the lug not off. I’m not sure when, or why they decided to start using so much plastic on cars, but there is just something about a car that has more plastic than metal or you can’t hear idol that I just don’t trust. I managed to get it off with a paper clip actually, kind of weird, but it worked. Then With a little donut tire on, I made the rest of the trip.
East Tennessee is BEAUTIFUL! The hills are amazing to see and drive through. Jimmy (Out here he is just Jimmy, since everyone is a “Tennessee” here) and I headed up to the Harrell old home place, I had a nip of moonshine, the best wine I have ever had, made right in the basement. We played music with different people there, and played for a nice couple, Georgie and Bruce. Georgie is a sweet lady that was good friends with Jimmy’s parents. She has been living in her house for 90 years. She is 91. We would pick a song, and then she would say something about how things used to be around there, and then we’d play another. Her husband Bruce, said he used to hunt Turkey there but hasn’t in a while, then showed me a necklace he made that had to be six feet long, with turkey spurs all over it, he pointed at one of them and said, “That was from the biggest turkey I ever shot…” Very cool.
Not only did I have some of the best wine I’ve ever had, made in the basement, I took a sip of real Moonshine, pretty sure you can run a car on that stuff, how people drink it, I’ll never know. Jimmy’s family was crazy nice, the defintion of southern hospitality and I do plan on heading back to East Tennessee to see them all and play some more great mountain music! Made it back to Murfreesboro, just in time for work more flat tires!
On a side note, since, I have an extra good tire, I’m going to buy an extra rim and keep a real spare tire, what’s the deal with those “donut” spares?
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