A Convenience Center Saturday
Now that we are back home, one of our weekend rituals is a trip to the convenience center. Now you may be thinking that maybe we go to Home Depot or Lowe's. You can't imagine that a trip to a convenience store would be a ritual. Are you wondering? Are you asking what is a convenience center? We live Cheatham County, the remaining rural county adjacent to Nashville. I hated it when we first came here. I would say CHEATham and laugh. Our first Tennessee home was on a farm. Yes, the girl from Brooklyn has lived on a farm. Although not farmers, we did have dogs and chickens. Living in the country meant a 6:25 a.m. school bus pick up to get to school. Our daughters were greeted by Miss Stacy the driver and her daughter. Across ponds at Little Pond Creek then winding through Sam's Creek Road a now full bus would arrive at Pegram Elementary (pronounced PEAgrum). Some of the children would disembark. My two girls would ...