The sights and sounds of the city

Hello Possum's! Bubba here and The Sock Drawer is open! Ya'll know me and my neon addiction! Anyhoo on with the next adventure! The day was airy and beautiful and much like a fall day in the temp department. What did ole Bubba do on such a great day? Not much on the ta-do list so I decided to walk into the big city which is really just down the street.



Ya'll can just sit a spell as I walk along and it'll be as if ya'll are on a guided tour of downtown Nashville. It twas a lazy Sunday afternoon as I pittled the downtown streets. Some might think I was lookin for trouble, but most knew otherwise as I had my camera and film crew with me.



There are lots of things to see and do other than country music here. The folks that have come here with big dreams in recent years...all just blend in together. Their all in a band and their all gonna be famous blah, blah, blah! The story never changes from year to year. But enought of that story line and on with the rest of the city!






I could sit here by this babblin brook and talk about that story all day! But let's not! Let's have a nice calmin day as we all know this date doesn't have the best rememberance in our history.



The folks here in Nashville have gotten quite use to seein ole Bubba out and about. They all throw their hands up and wave when they see us comin. Some stop and talk about The Sock Drawer happenins and try to pry my destination out of me. A few autographs get signed and I'm on my way once again.


Nicole Kidman might stop over to say hi...but I don't impose for a photo op! She and Keith are private on that note and I respect their wishes.



I do enjoy a walk through the big buildins of the downtown area. Some of them really old such as the one ya'll see in the photo above. They seem to be as old as Minnie Pearl and still standin.


I hum "I like to be in America " as I walk along. They remind me of that West Side story movie.



Okay Possum's! The ryman just across the street from us! Gosh! Now that we got all that out of the way. I know that was on ya'lls minds the whole time I been talkin.



So on with the city tour. This is one of my favorite shots. We could title it, Bubba does New York! But that wouldn't be right since I'm really in Nashville. I must say it has that look. If I were filmin another movie, I might consider usin this scene for a New York back drop. I just sayin!



This bein the Batman buildin and home of At&t...I get really great cell phone service on this corner.



There's lots of artwork throughout the city and I never get tired of seein it!



My house staff is callin me for dinner! I'LL BE RIGHT THERE! I'm doin my blog update! Sorry Possum's! 



Take a walk on the wild side!



Some fun stuff down alley ways. The fun can be tucked away in the neetest places.


Slap me with some more neon! I love the neon at dusk.


It's really the thing in this olden city of Nashville. Time to close The Sock Drawer! Dinner ya know. Bubba

9/11

We here at Bubba's Sock Drawer would like to take a moment to pause from our busy lives and remember the victum's and their families of 9/11. It was a tragedy in our American history and we will never forget the shock and horror of that paticular day.



May God bless you. Bubba

DAM Blog

A Celebrity Sock Monkey never sleeps Possum's! Here I am off to another adventure. This one is a fun one. Why ya'll ask? Cause I get to say DAM! I'm usually not a swearin Sock monkey. But try and stay with me on this one.



We drove to the Nashville Dam. Quite an interestin thing to see. I was curious to see it. I saw the sign from the highway and decided to stop in for a glance! I'm a Unicorn!



I don't really know why but there is a stone room with faucets inside. That's all there was. Nothing such as a restroom at all. At least i could wash my hands. There was the strangest dead fish smell in the air upon gettin out of the car on our arrival. Putred smell is was!



DAM, DAM, DAM, DAM, DAM Possum's! I mean DAM!



I sat back on these cement slabs to watch the water pour through like a waterfall. A smelly one at that!



That's all for this DAM Blog! Close the Sock Drawer! Bubba

Andrew Jackson

Hello Possum's! The adventures just keep addin up! It was a perfectly wonderful afternoon with the fall time temps goin on. I thought to myself..It would be a great day to go and check out The Hermitage! Yeah! Ya'll know it's the house Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, lived with his wife and children.



A far cry from the little plastic dude in the toilet bit.....I have to say that I was plum touched to tears when I saw the rusted out water tower in town Nashville! Someone had painted "We want more Bubba!" And more Bubba ya'll shall get! Fans Possum's. Fans from Nashville!



The house itself is very beautiful! All the wall papers and furnitures are original and were really used by The 7th president himself! Since the original funishins were present and accounted for....We were not allowed to bring in my camera and film crew. The back pack I rode in on had to be left at the servents quarters. The presidents already dead...but security and all. Ya'll understand.



This Possum's, is our tour gudie of the front porch! There were tour guides disperst throughout this main house. One in the hall one on the stairs, one in the upstairs hallway. Ya'll get the picture.




This is the back of the house Possum's! Two different angles!



This is the back of the house from a distance. I was walkin down the path off to the Slave cabins.



Along the way to the slave cabins was a cotton patch.



The slave cabins are all original and still intact.





These two photographs are of items found in a small hole in the floor. They hid their possesions away so they could hold onto their things.



I lay on the fireplace of the salve quarters.


It's a closer shot of the slave quarters.



Some really cool historical things here at his house! Time to close the Sock Drawer! Bubba

HELP There's a plastic dude in my bathroom

Bubba's Sock drawer has awakened to fall time temps. The air outside is as cool as aircondition. We had the rains fallin all day yesterday. Love this time of year, but it is curiouser and curiouser as it falls way to early in the season. Never the less I shall enjoy it just the same.



Good mornin my Possum's! With the weather so cool outside and rainy, I thought a warm hot bubble bath was in order. Hey! We Sock Monkeys have to get clean too!



HELP! there's a strange little plastic dude livin on my bathromm counter! Nobody of The Sock Drawer warehouse seems to know how he got there or where he came from! It was a topic out on the front porch last night durin our fall evenin coffee. He seems to have had a rough life. I mean he is missing his left arm. During the twilight of his life perhaps his vampire girlfriend ate it! One never seems to know about these things.



The next thing I knew he was over on the Washin machine! I think he was thinkin of takin a turn or spin in the spin cycle. Laundry soap would give him the bubble bath effect. Maybe, just maybe, he was copyin me! It is a form of flattery.



Sucks to be you plastic dude! You fell in the crapper! Dude! You will never...I mean never be able to wash that smell off of you! It's human poo! The nastiest!!!! They ate at Golden coral and everything! You know what that means! Veggie poo!



Each to his own plastic dude! I shall mosey on over here and groom my celebrity self. Watch your fingers Possum's I'm closin The Sock Drawer. Bubba

The Carter House

I was up really early this mornin Possum's. As I lay in bed and think about what my day would hold...Breakfast was the first step to gettin my day started. Cook breakfast? No really Possum's! Cracker Barrel does a good job. The old timers breakfast was the ticket. I won't tell you about the double chocolate cake I had afterwards. Chocolate cake for breakfast? Well why not?



Over breakfast my staff and I decided to head out to the Carter house. Just down the street from the Carnton Plantation and just as historical. They both shared in the battle of Franklin.



This is yours truely out in front of the Carter house! Doesn't look like much or resemble an old Plantation house but bein just down the street from the Carnton Plantation, it was part of the battle feild for the Battle of Frnaklin.



Don't-cha just love these historical signs! They sometimes provide me with a place to sit. The heat of the day was takin it's tole on me.



This log cabin wasn't original to the carter place, but the state of Tennessee moved it there later to preserve it from destruction. They think it may have been slave quarters at one time or another.



The cannons were added later for the realism of the battle ground look.



My photo staff thinks their so funny at times! Shoot Bubba out of a cannon? Not hardly! I'll go with it for now and give them a good laugh!



The bullet holes from the battle were all in the walls of the back porch. Some of the outter buildins were in worse shape. There are still musket bullets imbedded in the wall.



This view from the back porch shows the beauty of the Carter house. I can't imagine a ragin battle in place as I sit here and think of the history that took place.





This view of the log cabin and side flower garden are wonderful!



This is the smoke house for smokin their meat and meat storage.



The kitchen was separate from the original house. When the tour guide was ask the reason for this...His responce was so it wouldn't burn the house down. They did use real fire for cookin.



By the end of my tour I was plum tuckered out! I almost fell into my plate of food at Golden Coral! Thanks for joinin us here in Bubba's Sock Drawer for another adventure! I'm closin The Sock Drawer! Bubba