10/13/19
Today we got up and drove to see our good friends Milton and Julie of Here’s and Idea! They completed the Loop about two weeks ago and live not too far from the marina. They suggested Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ joint in Decatur, Alabama for lunch. We had a fabulous lunch!!!
These are the many world wide awards this place has won for its BBQ. 
Once we found their house we got in their truck and got a tour of the nursery! This was very interesting – Milton has used a method where the plants are propagated and grown to a specific height or maturity then they are shipped by their roots.
We learned there are many different methods of propagation and it has to do with the type of plant as to how it will be done. 
After that, we saw where Winchester’s famous family is entombed. The Templeton’s of the Templeton Funds.
This is a tree near the Templeton house and tomb. They planted it in 1959 – so cool! Milton told us that this type of tree will grow straight up or sometimes it will grow out sideways. It all depends on how it is trimmed. 
Downtown they have the most adorable theater! With first run movies!
Driving past a cotton field I made a comment so Milton stopped and let me out to play. When I got back Julie taught me that the seeds I feel inside the cotton are what a cotton gin pulls out, Eli Whitney’s invention.
We drove way up to the top of a mountain to get to Sewanee, the University of the South. This is where Milton went to college. What a beautiful place! All the buildings looked so old and majestic!
When we reached the church, I was awestruck! This turned out to be our destination! What Milton and Julie didn’t know is that my father designed and built a few churches and so as a child he would take me with him to drive around looking at many churches in the Chicago area. I’ve been in hundreds of churches! I just love seeing these spectacular monuments of worship! This one was breathtaking as we approached but inside it was beyond breathtaking! 
Then I started taking pictures of the building right next to the church. Julie mentioned that it’s pretty new and impressive inside. When we got there the employee at the desk directed us upstairs as the view is more dramatic!
This is a fraternity house – they aren’t all clumped together like at some universities. This is probably a better way of doing it – cuts back on parties?
This cross is on the side of the mountain and later we will see it from below. 
The group was undecided on a stop for a craft beer – so I helped them and said YES!
Julie fixed us a delicious meal! Lightly breaded catfish and an awesome savory brûlée!
Julie had canned a bunch of tomatoes! 
Then there was a game of Spades involved in the evening. In which the girls were victorious!
The sunset from their back porch rivals any sunset we’ve seen on the Loop!
Quote of the day: Show me your guns! Why, that just looks like bird turd on a telephone wire.
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