athens, first post

i think it's a good way to start this athens part of my life with a few shots from a bike ride. only this time i have a real bike. it's not pink. it's purple. dark purple i should say. much better than the one i bought in berlin. i ride it everyday to terrapin. i only live 2.4 miles away from there. more hill than berlin though. the first shot i hope some of you can recognize. i haven't eaten there yet, but i will. just checked the resolution and you'll have to click on the picture to see the sign. it was closed when i found it. just sort of ran into it one day. the second one is for dave. pretty cool looking train tressel. think that's what you call it anyway. then there's a picture of the oconee river. i lived close to it for the first three weeks in athens at my cousin sam's house. not much of a river and i still haven't found a swimming hole. the last 2 are going into terrapin territory. the first is a concert the brewery got tickets to at this really cool place outside of athens called ashford manor. could be misspelled. some latin jazz band was playing(grogus). not my kind of thing but they were good and we had a really good time. brought lots of terrapin bier with us and bob the filter guy made these killer paninis. the last shot is us getting a group picture made for the website or something. i got someone to take one for me. it was at this employee appreciation party we had a few weeks ago at the brewery. had some good pork butt and ribs. no good sauce. storebought. i'll have to do something about that.

a little more tennessee

first we have a shot of my favorite dog roxanne. she lives in tennesse with my friends rhyan and lindsey. my cousin down here in athens has a black lab named cocoa that comes in a close second but you just can't beat roxanne.
brother andy with a penny on his head at centerhill lake. he really wishes he was an indian.
this is micah. also at the lake. just a weird looking picture. it's like he's up in your face. and below is fred on top of the house boat. he only has a head. no body.

it rained alot on us and i took alot of pictures of the rain. thought this was the best. i had to sleep outside because all of the beds were taken. it rained like hell off and on all night but somehow i didn't get wet. we had fun with the jetboat and tube until micah let the rope go up in one of the jet engines and we had to cut it. we gave him hell the rest of the weekend. he takes gettin hell well, but he usually deserves it.

three waterways in tennessee, all connected

first and last is centerhill lake. the lake i grew up on mostly. does not look like a lake bigger than the tegeler sea in berlin but it's pretty damn large and deep. 200 feet in many places.
this is my nephew preston. he just turned 10 a few weeks ago. he's a nut. this was over a month ago. my mom lives on a small lake called city lake. cookeville used to get it's water from it. now we get it from center hill. under this damn is the falling water river which ends up in center hill.
here's preston, my mom, and my brother's girlfriend's son caleb at burgess falls park.
that's burgess falls. you can see it better in other shots i took, but i think this one looks the coolest. this also dumps into centerhill.
from the left is maddie, preston, mom or "mimi", and caleb. maddie is caleb's sister. that's one of the worst things about leaving cookeville. i won't get to see these three, among other friend's kids, grow up as much. everytime i go home i will have missed alot. you can't brew beer in cookeville though, unless you're rich as shit. maybe not even then. this is from the overlook at burgess falls. i want to keep on doing this blog, but it seems like maybe no one is looking at it anymore. if you do still look at it, make a comment or something. this will be my last tennessee post but i allready have some good pictures of athens to put on this thing. let me know if you want me to keep this shit up. prost.