A Blog By Wessley
The Ryman Auditorium is the best place in Nashville to hear a concert. It is not a big arena like the football stadium where you get seats so high up and away from the stage that the band looks like tiny ants. In the Ryman, even the seats in the last row are decent seats and the sound is fantastic wherever you sit.
They’ve been booking some big names at the Ryman. The only problem with that is the seats are limited and the good shows sell out within an hour or two of the tickets going on sale.
My buddy, Owen, invited me to go shooting at the farm his parents own up in Sumner county. They bought about 60 acres a couple of years ago and plan to retire soon. They are renovating the old farm house to make it ready for them to live there full time. The deal is that we can out there and shoot skeet or targets as long as we check out the place for signs of vandalism or any storm damage.
We try to get out there about once a month, but if I can’t go Owen gets another buddy to tag along. Its a lot of fun to spend a day on the farm, but sometimes I can’t be gone from here that long. The drive up takes an hour and a half, and its easy to see 3 or 4 hours slip away while we are having fun. The next thing you know its getting dark, the day is gone, and we still have an hour and a half drive to get back home. Long day – but always a good time.
Simple little ditty, “Spring forward and fall back” is how I remember that in the fall we have to set back our clocks an hour. So at 2:00 am the clocks go back to 1:00 am and we all get an extra hour of sleep. Of course, we lose that hour in the spring. But i’ll take an extra hour of sleep any time I can get it.