Three weeks. That's how long we've lived in Greater Nashville. We're renting a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment in a pet-friendly complex three minutes from the church, next door to a Shell gas station/ convenience store/ Dunkin' Donuts. The gas station also has several pallets of mulch for sale, if gasoline isn't enough for you. Bellevue is southwest of downtown Nashville, but the address is still Nashville 37221.
The apartment is pretty nice, as apartments go. One bedroom we use as a bedroom, one bedroom is Carmen's office. The third is the storage unit, with my chrome shelving, completely filled with boxes, around the perimeter, the floor space inhabited by several large items of furniture and more boxes, and the closet also full of what we politely refer to as stuff. Along one wall of the living room we have a four-high, three-deep stack of boxes of books - about 100 boxes - most of which will go into Carmen's office at the church as soon as the remodeling of office space is finished.
Dog walking has been excellent. There are many dogs here, as one might expect of a pet-friendly complex, and there are a lot of green and brown and shady spaces for dog walking purposes. Rabbits and squirrels are plentiful as well, providing hours of entertainment. And yes, our hound dog indeed caught a rabbit right here in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition, less than three miles away is Edwin Warner Park, with miles of shady paved trails through the woods, and a fenced dog park, where we have never been without dogs for Grace to play with.
Down the road a short piece one way is a Publix grocery store. They have Geezer Day - 5% off your total order every Wednesday if you're 62 or older. They don't call it that, of course, but they should. Also there is Staples, the post office, Home Depot and a cluster of restaurants. A short distance down the same road the other direction are two great Mexican restaurants, the Thai restaurant mentioned in the previous post, a bunch of nice stores and Yogurt Mountain, a hard place to stay away from on a hot day.
Carmen officially starts her job as minister to the Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Congregation on the fifteenth. She has been using this between time to get settled, get herself prepared to begin work, get our life here in gear, and yes, even to relax some. Right now she's at the pool. Good for her. But she's already had several meetings and phone calls with church folks. And she's been asked to do the blessing at the Mayoral Run-off Candidates' forum next week. Toto, we're not in Meadville any more.
We love it here. Yes, it's hot outside during the middle of the day. We do our major dog walks early in the morning before traffic builds, and run our errands in the evening if we can. And it's dollars to Dunkin' Donuts (only 99 cents each) that it won't be 23 below zero in February.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
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