Scenes in Hiram

This morning, I took a ride through the Paulding metropolis known as Hiram....or as the locals around here call it, "Harm".

Both of the funeral homes were open for business; parking lots were full and people were sitting in the rocking chairs out side of Clarks. Is it just me or does it not appear weird when the county coroner also owns one of the local funeral homes as well as the local ambulance service?

Further on up 92, it seems like all of the local churches decided to have a combination yard sale and barbeque. Nice day for it, but I've got more junk than I can use so I didn't stop.

Just for the heck of it, I turned off onto Pine Valley Road to see what the Tritt's were up to. As I rode past the Tritt compound, you'll never guess who I saw at the mailbox!!!

Now, I've lived in Paulding County for 15 years and I've yet to see any Tritt. Travis had already bought his property shortly before I moved here. Later on, he got married and they produced a whole flock of little Tritts. It's a well known fact that Theresa (Mrs. Tritt) shops at Walmart and Target. And occasionally, the family will have a Friday night outing at the now-defunct Catfish Den* or Longhorn's. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw someone at Travis' mailbox!

Yep, you guessed it! I saw.....Travis Tritt's MAILMAN!!!!

He probably got the exact same junk mail that I got today! I'm guessing he got the little magazine thingy that is loaded up with Mrs. Winner's coupons, Papa John's coupons, Captain D's coupons, and 1 room of carpet steam cleaned free when you have 4 other rooms done. I wonder if he got the Linen's and Things card where you can get 20% off any one item? Or the "We miss you" offer from DirectTV?

I didn't stop to find out; I didn't want to be in violation of the 40 "No Stopping/No Standing" signs that he has posted around the perimeter of his property. Not that you can actually see anything due to the 8 foot high brick wall and the 4o foot high Leland cypresses that also encompass the perimeter of his property.

Travis, if you happen to read this here's a word of advice regarding the DirectTV offer. You might have to chop down some of those trees to get a signal. That's why we wound up having to switch over to Comcast. We just have too many trees on our lot. If they were pine, we would have just cut them down, but since they are all mature hardwoods, we decided to keep them. But you've got a ton of pines on your property and those things are a dang nuisance because they snap like toothpicks in a high wind or ice storm....I'm just saying.

Also, here's some news regarding the Catfish Den. (That's why I put an * next to it earlier.) It's been closed now for several months and several p-commers as well as my parents were quite upset about that. Apparently, they served the best catfish ever and they suddenly closed up back during the spring. Well, as I was riding down 92, the sign in front said "Opening Soon!" I'm not exactly a catfish connoisseur, so that doesn't mean much to me, but I know some folks will be extremely excited with that news.

Coming up on 278, someone needs to tell the parents of these kids stationed at every corner trying to sell the Sunday edition of the AJC for $1, that: no one wants that paper because it stinks -AND- standing on any corner of 278 ain't the safest (or smartest) place to stand. Besides that, Miss Jessie might come up and cuss them out and that would be bad.

Speaking of which....I didn't see Miss Jessie. hmmmm. I guess I need to go check that out.