Amazingly Hot August!

Finally another Blog Post! I know most of you were checking everyday, holding your breath and hoping to find a new adventure story from Nashville only to be disappointed. Well wait no more! I am going to bring everyone up to speed with 2 new blogs...one for August and one for September.

Here is a little note from the National Weather Service about August:

...AUGUST 2007 WAS THE HOTTEST MONTH EVER RECORDED IN NASHVILLE...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2007 AVERAGED 86.9 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 9.0 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. ...AND THE HOTTEST OF ANY MONTH IN 137 YEARS OF RECORD KEEPING.THERE WERE 15 DAYS OF 100 DEGREES AND ABOVE IN NASHVILLE DURING AUGUST 2007. THIS IS THE MOST EVER IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST. A STRING OF 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 100 DEGREES AND ABOVE BEGAN ON AUGUST 12TH...2007. ALSO...THE 106 DEGREES ON AUGUST 16TH WAS THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE IN NASHVILLE IN THE LAST 55 YEARS...ONLY SURPASSED BY 107DEGREES BACK ON JULY 27TH AND JULY 28TH IN 1952.

Basically it was hot here. I'm sure it was hot everywhere this summer. Al Gore was right when he said ..."It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."--or maybe when he said "We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." It's very exciting having such a smart person as our neighbor...heck I bet he is smart enough to invent this Internet we are all talking on these days.

I digress...no need to get political in this blog...but here is a subliminal message (WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T VOTE FOR HER).

Once we got past the heat wave we had a great time in August. For those of you that don't know, Steph's company Fidelity was nice enough to pay for temporary housing here in Nashville for 2 months. Those 2 months ended in July. We have been looking for a house since June and were having some trouble figuring out exactly where to live. For some reason, unlike the rest of the country, Nashville is not a buyer's market. We must have looked at 30-40 houses with our realtor in a variety of different areas.

Still not satisfied, we were driving around one day and made a wrong turn (I was driving...hard to believe huh?) and found ourselves in a neighborhood we had not seen yet. Trying to find our way back out, we noticed an Open House sign that was advertising for that afternoon. After a quick drive by look, we decided to come back and look at it. Boy were we surprised when we did...there were about 20 cars lined up on either side of the street! All of them had come to the Open House! We strolled through the house and really liked it, we still had a few others to look at that day and more to think about. Eventually Steph wanted to go back and look again later that same day. Making a long story shorter...we decided to put an offer in that night. The next day we found out that we were bidding against another couple that had come through the open house. So we gave our best offer and crossed our fingers. Monday afternoon we got the call that we had "won" the bidding and could move in at the end of the month! The house and neighborhood are great. We are very fortunate to have stumbled upon a great home.

Now back to my earlier comment that I had made a wrong turn...looking back I can concur that it was a correct turn, and at no point in time have I ever been lost driving...I am a man of course and as long as we have gas in the tank we are never lost.

Is everyone tired of reading now? Good...for those of you still with us I'll continue (For Mike and Greg quit surfing the Internet for girls while you are at work)

After settling in, we had an interesting event. Sometime in the middle of the month while we (I) was cooking dinner we hard a loud "pop" and the power went out. I immediately checked out our front door to see about the transformer on the power pole and yup, it had exploded and was on fire. I yelled at Steph to grab my phone and the camera. I got to call 911, very exciting. Only in Tennessee can you call 911 and tell them you have a fire in front of your house and the operator replies "Ok, we will send someone out to take a look at it"...I'm like...I don't want an estimate on what it will cost to put it out, just tell the firefighters to put the Sony Playstation down and bring a truck with some water on it right away. Turner will understand about the Playstation. You see for those of you that don't know someone who is a firefighter we get the inside scoop. When they aren't getting the cats out of the trees, they are doing 1 of 3 things...Cooking...Playing Video games...or sleeping. Go ahead Turner, try to deny it. Anyway, I have attached a video of the pole on fire...sorry about it being sideways...if you are at work, just tilt your head and tell the boss you are doing stretching exercises.

Lets see what else happened in August. Late August we took a trip to the lake (Watts Bar Tennessee) We went to visit the Vicarels and Jackups. As I have mentioned in the past, it is a great place to go and relax and enjoy the water. Steph got to Ski and she even went fishing with us. I'll leave out the part of the story where she caught more fish than I did...she can tell you about that later. The lake is only about 2 1/2 hours from here and Larry, Carol, Ron and Mel are great hosts! We are very thankful that they invite us over all the time.

That seems like enough for now. Tune in tomorrow for the next Chapter. Hope this finds everyone in good health and happiness! Jason and Steph.