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Saturday morning, Miss Jenks and I got in the new car and drove to Maryville, Tennessee, to see Will Kimbrough and Todd Snider. It was a 7-hour drive and worth every minute. Unfortunately, I left my spare camera batteries at home so I have a couple of pictures of Will that I will post soon. But no video as I had hoped. I'm sure some will show up on Youtube pretty soon.

Will did Act Like Nothing's Wrong and Piece of Work and A New Song and many others, then Todd came out and they played for another hour and a half with Ted Cooper on bass and rocked the crowd of about 300 at Smoky Mtn. Harley Davidson in The Shed. We were drinking Tecate in a can with limes.

Todd did a new song, America's Favorite Pastime, about some MLB pitcher pitching a game on acid. He told a story about being on the high school football team in Beaverton, OR, and how some magic mushrooms turned him to the other side.

We got in the car at 8 a.m. after eating at the Corner Grill and drove to Lake City, TN, where we ate at La Fiesta (smoking or non-smoking?) and had a frosty Negra Modelo, some killer guac and excellent salsa on some burritos and enchiladas that all the had the same red sauce, but were tasty. On the way back we had breakfast Sunday morning at Cottage Restaurant, also in Lake City. And lunch at Tipp o' the Town in Tipp City. Not into the chain restaurants.

We tried to find Disney, TN, which was on Jenks's Wal-Mart road atlas but the locals where we stopped for gas said Disney might be a road, but it wasn't a town and when I told them we wanted to have our pictures taken in front of the city sign, you could tell they thought I was out of my mind. And from up NORTH. These 5 or 6 people were all in the gas station, where I bought gas, and most of them looked pointedly at the floor when the reason for this visit was presented.

The scenery was beautiful. Smoky Mtns. at 8 a.m. With actual smokiness.

Last Wednesday, we went to see Sonny Landreth at The Ark. He was pretty good but we have seen this show before.

Remember, Rod's Collision is at Nate and Wally's Friday night.

We got some big rain today. Now, it's time to mow for the first time in 2 months.