Casting Call

 We've started our vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took some doing, but we did get started on our vacation, our first big one since we went with Sarah to Universal over her Thanksgiving break her first year in college.  We tried to get one in last year in between the pigs leaving and coming, but the schedule just kept changing and it didn't work out.  Reservations were cancelled, tickets returned.  So this year, we are going - just the 2 of us - with no reservations or concrete plans.  There was a 2 week window between weighing of the pigs to get it in, so pigs were weighed Thursday morning and we planned to head out to stay with Sarah that evening.  Of course, before we could leave, the hubster had to squeeze in a hair cut after the pig weighing, and then a hog went down, so he butchered it, and in the half hour before leaving, we packaged pork loin for the freezer.  

And before that, I had spent over an hour in the morning brushing dried mud out of Willow's fur because I knew Sarah wouldn't do that (she's staying at our house to animal sit).  So when I see hubby racing the tractor with the bucket (with the butchering remains) across the road to the compost, I spy Willow following after him at full speed, ears flapping, fur billowing as she tried to catch up.  I called her back and we did another grooming which included washing her paws and washing the blood out of her fur.  

We left Sarah's early Friday morning and headed south with a stop in Perryville at the American Tractor Museum.

We were stopping to take this photo and there was a woman at the door beckoning us in.  I guess she thought we were there to answer the sign posted on the door.........

We inquired as to what movie was being filmed, and they didn't seem to have much information.  Even though we didn't have concrete plans, we declined the offer to wait for the casting call for extras.  The tractor museum is attached to their event center much like our museum in Marshall is.  I checked it all out.  The tractor museum is very well done, and I took several photos.  Since my knowledge of the tractors is limited, I'm just doing a big photo dump here, mainly for my dad and my Uncle Al.

So in the above photo, are 2 tractors used in the filming of the Elvis movie, Walk the Line.  More on Elvis at the end of the post.

And this photo is for Paul and Becky, our cider making friends.  That was so much fun!

After the tractor museum, we headed south in Missouri and then through the lower tip of Illinois (where gas is $5.59/gallon), had a picnic lunch at a rest stop near Metropolis, and then crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky.  Paducah!  You know what's in Paducah!!!!!  Quilts!  I have lots of photos, but those will have to be another post.  We spent the night in Corinth, MS and are heading to Tupelo to the Elvis Presley birthplace this morning.

Christi