Welcome to November.
The fall fun continues. On Saturday, Nov. 4, Murfreesboro has a soup festival on the Square, a bacon festival at Sports*Com and a pecan festival at Williamson Family Farm, all on the same day.
So, your ingredients, chef, are soup, bacon and pecans—go! You must create something that would fit at all three festivals. I would be glad to make a soup with bacon and pecans in it, and I am telling you now, it would have pumpkin in it, too.
This past month the Mayos had just a little backyard campfire time—a fine way to celebrate fall—Jr. and I are still playing chess, we hit up the Holiday World, I continue eating meat and lifting weights, feeding cats, Beckett is learning the ups, downs, ins and outs of the fantastic Old Fort Park playground and other local climbing yards for the kids—“Chase me!”
I took the boys to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem following Jay Spight’s high praise of the animated work.
Cool note: come to find out—and this was after our loyal movie writer specifically called out the animation, saying the “animation is unlike anything I’ve seen before and it oozes style and creativity” and that “it feels strange to say this about animation—Mutant Mayhem has some of the best lighting I’ve seen in a long time . . . all neons at night”—that Murfreesboro’s own Mikki Rose served as technical animation supervisor on the film.
The MTSU grad has also worked on the animation of The Peanuts Movie, Ferdinand, Spies in Disguise, Ice Age: Collision Course, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and other films.
My family has enjoyed your work!
R.I.P., Aunt Neada Carr, a very loving and welcoming individual. I remain very glad to have known you and your love for children and everyone. You have made an impact in the world.
Shop local, my friends. Support the small business community, for they are who support the Pulse!
The upcoming Small Business Saturday Market, held Saturday, Nov. 25, at the Mid-Tn Expo Center, offers a chance to shop from an array of local vendors and businesses. Check it out.
One local businessman could use some support this holiday season; The Turntable Medic, Tom Blizzard, continues on the road to physical and financial recovery following a motorcycle accident in October of 2022.
If you appreciate vinyl records, vintage audio gear and supporting small business, find the Turntable Medic on Facebook or, to contribute to the cause, find a “Help Keep the Vinyl Spinning!” campaign currently running on GoFundMe.
Dang, it is amazing—and maybe some of you married guys can relate—but each one of my wife’s opinions is exactly the same as mine. Every single one.
In fact, she don’t even have opinions, she has facts. Cold, hard, facts.
I am pretty sure, whatever her future facts are going to be, I agree. 100 percent. Much, much easier that way.
Sayonara, K.B. I have the feeling that if the Titans could have managed to beat the Colts earlier this season, got that divisional win, were at 3–3 entering their bye week instead of 2–4 and didn’t let Zack Moss run all over the place, Mr. Kevin Byard might still be hanging around Middle Tennessee. It was cool while it lasted—to have an MTSU Blue Raider be such an important piece of the Titans for so long—but moving on.
Soon after trading away one of the team’s leaders and most popular players, Titans general manager Ran Carthon earned back some trust. One of his first big moves as GM in this year’s draft was to trade up in order to select Will Levis, and the big QB from the University of Kentucky came out slinging in his NFL debut, throwing four touchdowns and leading the boys to a win. Go Titans!
