Some things I've learned about Tennessee in a week...

If you want to get things done, do it before 7AM or after 10PM cuz it's just too darn hot.

If you want to get things done on Monday, start on the Tuesday before...

If you have to go somewhere during the day, that will be the time the cable installers will be out.

If you have errands to run, they are at least 15 minutes away.

The police station answers the water department's phone when they are at lunch.

Nextel/Sprint won't work at home, but it will work a block away. If you are driving you will lose signal because of the mountains. How come??? Aren't the satellite's in space? How are mountains interferring with that???

Tennessee is pretty no matter where you look.

From the air it looks like fields of broccoli, from the ground it feels like a roller coaster--up, down, up, down, sideways, in, out, up, down...

If you want to unpack boxes of books, the bookshelves will be wobbly and you will have packed your hammer elsewhere...

If you want to cook something, you will realize that either you don't have it, or you forgot to pick it up, or that the utensil or pan is packed somewhere and you have no idea where it is.

If you want to watch a movie, you will open all of your boxes that are labeled DVD'S and discover that you did not pack all of your movies in one of those boxes marked DVD'S, in fact you packed DVD's all over the place, apparently whatever room you found the dvd in that is where you packed it. AND, it's the DVD you want to watch that is missing...

Tennessee in the morning and the evening smells like a forest after the rain.

There are a million (I think that's the actual number) of state parks with hiking trails in TN.

Okay, so I am sure that I will have lots and lots of interesting things I learn about TN in the next seven days...