Max graduated from the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business this weekend. Arden graduated as well. So, they did it together! We are very proud of them both. I could have done without all the “3rd Saturday in October of our Junior year” references about the Vols win over Bama throughout the weekend’s ceremonies. …
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Revisiting Memphis, TN
We’ve been to Memphis before, but it has been a while! We met Preston for a Grizzlies game. I’m not a huge basketball fan but 1) it was fun and 2) I’ll use any excuse to eat at Rendezvous. We hit a few other Memphis favorites while in town (Beale Street, Bass Pro Shop @ …
Mother’s Day 2005
Mother’s Day 2005 – A Dean Family Original Production The Dean Family’s original Mother’s Day production for the best Mom around. This was the original! It was so popular with audiences that the producers milked the franchise for many years with sequels (of varying production value). But this is where it all began! Happy Mother’s …
T.O. Fuller State Park – Memphis, TN
Our trip back home was cursed from the second we left the prior campground in Hot Springs, AR. The bad luck lasted all the way through our time at T.O. Fuller State Park in Memphis. We stayed at this state park while we explored around Memphis. We wound up cutting our losses to beat the …
Two Days In Hot Springs National Park (Hot Spring, AR)
We spent two days exploring Hot Spring National Park (in Hot Springs, AR). I was excited to go for a soak to heal all my ailments in the 4,000-year-old thermal spring waters. I did my soaking at the Buckstaff Bathhouse which opened in 1912 (and is the only bathhouse to continuously operate since then). It …
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Cutting A Road Through The Woods – Part 2 (DeanoFarms: Week 71)
Week 2 of this multiweek project. After a slow start with a myriad of problems the prior week I started making decent progress this weekend. It was a beautiful weekend to be in the woods. I dropped the largest tree I’ve ever cut down (a cedar tree). It even went the direction I wanted it …
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Biking Meeman Shelby Forest State Park (Millington, TN)
We started off our Spring Break going west. Our first stop was north of Memphis at Meeman Shelby Forest State Park. We explored the park on our bikes and had so much fun that we changed our entire plan to spend more time in (and around) this park and in Millington. It was the perfect …
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Slow Down Deano! Chainsaw Safety (DeanoFarms: Week 70)
Sometimes I get moving a little too quickly trying to get a project finished. In the process, I start cutting corners. Sometimes this means I increase risks. I constantly have to remind myself to slow down. Especially if it is a project I’m not familiar with. ESPECIALLY when I have a chainsaw in my hand! …
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Fort Pillow Historic State Park (Henning, TN)
This was our first trip of the 2024 RV season with some winter camping at Fort Pillow Historic State Park in west TN. It is a Civil War encampment that was on the Mississippi River. We learned a little about it and hiked to a restored fortification. Winter camping sometimes works out with the weather …
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Farm Fails – Sometimes Progress Is Slow! (DeanoFarms: Week 70)
Projects are often 1 step forward and 3 steps back. It was definitely like that on this day. Actually, several thousand steps backward on this day! I made many trips back and forth to the barn and wound up with very little to show for it other than all those steps! HA! Oh well, at …
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