Donna Lundy

Around Here, General Living, Home Improvement

My house has a big problem with the fireplace – it is leaking. We can’t use it to burn wood, which I miss greatly. The chimney is deteriorating from water damage and wood rot, so it needs some serious repair work. So I’m calling for estimates and having trouble finding anyone who wants to work on it.

I love the fireplace in this picture. It’s like the fireplace in the Cracker Barrel near my house. I wish I had a working fireplace like that one in my house. It would be awesome – you would have to pry me out of the rocking chair next to it during the winter months.

General Living, Home Improvement

This year I was so excited to plant a larger garden. I bought twice as many tomato plants and twice as many pepper plants as last year. And  started some pumpkins from seed.

I want to plant some flowers, too and bought some seed packets and phlox plants to try growing a few flowers around the mail box.

Around Here, Foodie, Home Improvement

The Good Friday tornadoes that ripped through Rutherford County left behind over 40 people hurt badly enough to seek medical attention, over 90 homes completely destroyed and another 300 or so homes severely damaged.

The news reports on Fox 17 had a lot of good video coverage worth watching to get a good idea of how much damage was done:

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We have had severe weather warnings all day, with tornado sirens going off in Cool Springs, Franklin and even Hermitage again today.

Luckily we were spared any actual twisters near my house, and we just had strong thunderstorms with a lot of lightning and heavy rain. But Murfreesboro was hit by at least 4 different tornadoes and suffered a lot of damage. I’m sure there will be more news and better coverage on local TV tomorrow.

Around Here, Environment, Home Improvement