Cane Creek, Loblelville, TN

We try to make a trip to Lobelville, TN at least once each year. There is a beautiful, clear creek to enjoy. There are old-fashioned stores (Cane Creek Market) where we can buy bulk foods, bowls, pots, pans, kitchen goods and our children's favorite, gummy eggs.

We also go see the Oberholtzer sisters and Hope who do some sewing for me and the girls. There is also Miller's Woodworking Shop where we have bought two large and two small cedar hope chests. They also make porch swings, rocking chairs, and many other furniture items.

This last trip, we found a new street sign that showed us just how close we've been many times to some of our favorite authors of child training and how to be a better wife books, Michael and Debi Pearl. We saw their many times mentioned Church at Cane Creek and their volleyball set-up.

Here is the Church at Cane Creek I've read about. It's on stilts due to Cane Creek flooding at times. They had a big flood there just a few months ago.

(You can see the creek in the background.)

Here is what we saw in the Cane Creek Market parking lot.

Below is a schoolhouse/church that we have attended once.

The picture following this one shows where the folks tie their horses and buggies while at church or school. We played in the creek just on the other side of the trees.

This is a sign we pass on the way to the Oberholtzer's place. This last time, the road was really rough due to recent flooding that washed out the gravel pretty badly.

Here is an interesting rock we found in the creek.

Josiah went fishing with haystring attached to a stick.

It was a perfectly hot day to play in to cool, clear water.

Bethany and Rebecca used air-filled dresses as floats as they let the current move them downstream.

Josiah found a good climbing tree right at the creekside, so he did what came naturally and climbed it!

Below is proof that Mom was there, too!

Jessica and Hannah mostly stayed out of the water, but they enjoyed being near it.