Tonight Robin and I went to the "Folk Festival" within Centennial Mall; then we decided to go eat somewhere that we had never ate before, and Monell's Restaurant was just up the street. One table had two chairs left; we had only missed the salad portion, and we started passing the vegetables to the left. Monell's food is served family style; we had ten other people at our table. The menu was mashed potatoes with white gravy, green beans, corn casserole, fried green tomatoes, white beans, broccoli salad, slaw, barbecue ribs, fried chicken, fried catfish, biscuits, cornbread, and banana pudding. Needless to say that my diet wasn't followed tonight, and I was completely full. If you ever have a chance to eat at Monell's, forgo the diet and enjoy!
I was in a picture taking mode outside (as usual) within Monell's patio; it was so beautiful, and one of the employees was taking a break. He had been so nice to us in the restaurant by giving us an event listing of the Italian Festival at St Pius Catholic Church that was being held next week. He began to talk to us outside too. There was a small pond with Lilly pads and a little bridge that crossed over it under an antique light post.
The story the employee told us was that there used to be close to sixteen fish within this pond; one morning when he arrived, the fish were laying sideways. He ran and got help; they drained the pond, and had a water sample tested. Someone had put chlorine in the pond; most of the fish died, but one big fish lived. That fish had swam to the pond through the waters of the Nashville flood.
It is so sad that those fish died; it is also sad that someone would pour chlorine in a fish pond, but wasn't it so touching that the fish that made it there from the flood lived. Sounds like there's a lesson to be learned; the more you struggle the harder you fight maybe?
I love listening to stories and sharing them with others.
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