Life Through the Eyes of my Scattered Brian

The other day I mentioned that I  left the house early and  stayed gone for hours, with my  camera. Going to try and work on  my "Forgotten in Hickman Co." album on FB. It is sort of overwhelming that there is so much abandoned  property in this county.  The pic above is on  the main strip and I think it maybe was once a store, or  a place to eat. While I was riding around the county seat of my county, I saw this amazing home. And this one. Centerville has some really old homes. The town was  established in 1823. and in 2020 the population     was 3,489. There is no growth in  this county, the county seat wants to keep it that way.  The town square has more vacant buildings then ones that have something in them. Last time I was there, there was a bakery, that did not make it along with one restaurant that I had eaten at before. This could be one adorable square if Hickman Co. would allow growth. What they stick with i...

 Merriest beautiful day to  you all.  Temps started to drop last week here in TN., but best of all the humidity dropped also. For those of you that don't live in an over during the summer like here in TN, humidity makes a difference. I have managed in the  past week to mix up a big sprayer  full of vinegar, Dawn, and salt to  spray my  gravel driveway. I have had my ups and downs with this mixture. It appeared to work, then it appeared to not work, and my thought process on that is, weeds here and there, small growths of it, this mix works good, important spray the roots. A lot of weeds or grass in a  gravel driveway, not so much. However, I read try boiling the  salt in a pot of water first so that it is dissolved in the mix, otherwise it really don't dissolve or do much good. Seemed to work better that way  this time, and I had a lot to cover. The outline section is not my yard, well, not exactly. It is my yard moving into the driveway...