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Tobacco Curing
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I just found this image of burley tobacco curing in Haywood County. I know it’s not the same thing, but it reminds me of the wonderful smell of tobacco curing in the old gas-fired barns back home when I was growing up. Not the more modern bulk barns, but the ubiquitous tobacco barns that at least used to dot central North Carolina. Seems like every time I go back home there are less of them around … and it’s been years since I’ve smelled that wonderful smell.
How I miss that smell …
By far the story that amused me the most in today’s Times-Free Press is that State Rep. Joe McCord has admitted that he and other folks have been smoking in his state office in Nashville. Why is this so amusing to me? Well, because Mr. McCord voted for the 2006 bill that banned smoking in Tennessee government offices.
Oops.
Smoked out: McCord admits violating state law (linking to knoxnews.com because for some reason I can’t find the story on timesfreepress.com)
Autumn loves to watch my videos of steam locomotives, and now she’ll walk up to the TV and point and say “wooo wooooooooooo” … so naturally we took her to the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah while we were here. I even bought her a book about Engineer Small and his locomotive. 
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