Trail of Tears

JA did her 4th grade history project on the Trail of Tears which begins near Chattanooga and passes thru Middle Tennessee and then eventually on to Oklahoma. It occurs to me that there are many similarities with the Mormon pioneers being driven out of Missouri and Illinois ten years later.

Sledding

We had a bit of an unusual snow storm for Tennessee, dumping maybe three inches of snow on Friday night/Saturday morning. We hurried and blew up our triangle tubes (which take about 15 minutes each) and headed out to the local park with a decent hill. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing a lot of the snow off the hill, so it wasn't as packed as we might have hoped. Still we were able to get a pretty decent hour or two of sledding before it was melted too much to keep going. A little "Easter Egg" if you will before spring finally settles in for good.