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Evening mood in Monterey
newsThis photo is a companion to the one below, taken from the other side of the tracks.
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Good grief! Looking at my visitors, Google googles me oodles more than I ogle, google or noodle around Google.
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| Some good news |
| You won't read this in the papers, but here's a quiet item of good news. In the photo below, a new railroad track almost reaches Holly Street in downtown Monterey, Tennessee. Key word here is "new." After about 18 years of abandonment, the line from Cookeville to Monterey has been reopened and is being prepared for heavy-duty freight trains and passenger excursions. Bulk loads of sand will be the first commodity shipped but having the railroad opens the way for other industries, making the economic outlook for the citizens of that area much brighter than even a year ago. The passenger trains will bring tourists, and bring out local artisans, musicians and cooks to met the trains and offer their products. Look for a festival atmosphere in what is now a muddy half completed train yard across the street from the 1909 Vintage Imperial Hotel, now a museum. There is a plan afoot to build a depot as a new centerpiece to the downtown area. I'd like to be on that first train. Actually. I'd like to be driving it.  |
They put the silliest stuff in newspapers. Today's has a report that talking on cell phones causes us all to drive more slowly, making the daily commute to work take longer. The guy who did this is in Utah, where maybe monster traffic jams are not the number-one problem, and the amount of slow-down mentioned is 2mph. So exactly how much does going 87mph instead of 89 impact (sorry 'bout that word) a morning hurtle from the Atlanta airport to Norcross?
Yep, that's snow, not confetti making the trails. I'm dreaming of a (retroactive) white Christmas and to all a good night. And blessed 2008. 
The photo below is my Christmas card, ok- holiday card if you must, but trains are a Christmas tradition at my house. So we wish you all at Mindsay a very blessed Christmas, from our website to yours.
The sock mill lost a good one last week. AWwww-girl, as I'll call her, is one of those rare individuals with a trainload of talent, drive and a sense of the big picture. She came to us already knowing now to make socks, sell socks and even make websites that sell socks. And she lived and worked every day beaming God's grace through her effort, products and attitude.
Her work raised the quality of our socks and the community's preception of our worth and place in that community. I had the honor and challenge of occasionally supervising her and clearing her schedule of sock fuzz minutiae so she could do the things she uniquely did best. Alas, for us, she moved on to things that are right for her. And at least she'll be home for Christmas and New Year.
Good luck and God bless ya AWwww-girl,
and remember us when you wear socks
Good luck and God bless ya AWwww-girl,
and remember us when you wear socks
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