JUST WADDLIN’ IN MEMPHIS

Have you ever been to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis?  I grew up, and still live, an hour from Memphis, so I have been to the Peabody often.  We recently went to a party in Memphis, and I acted like a tourist (or a blogger) ~snapping pictures everywhere.

Outside the Peabody, drivers of horse-drawn carriages try to out-tacky each other in an attempt to attract riders.

The lobby of the Peabody is a wonderful place to have a drink and people watch.  There are always a lot of people in the lobby, but especially at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., when people gather around the fountain and on the balconies around the interior of the lobby.

This was the second Peabody Hotel built in Memphis.  It opened in 1925.  The fountain has always been there, but the ducks didn’t show up until 1932.  At that time, duck hunters used live decoys.  The hotel manager had taken a friend to hunt in Arkansas, and when they returned to the hotel, they put their live decoys into the fountain.  To their surprise, hotel guests loved this addition to the fountain, so since that day, the Peabody has kept five mallard ducks at the hotel.

At 11:00 a.m., the “Duck Master” rolls out a red carpet, and the ducks march down the carpet from the elevator to the fountain.  At 5:00 p.m., the Duck Master rolls out the red carpet for the ducks to parade from the fountain back to the elevator to return to their home on the hotel rooftop.

It was too crowded for me to get a picture of the duck parade to the elevator, so I went up to see where they would be spending the night. 

On my way up, I just had to snap a picture of the elevator floor.

This sign greeted me when I stepped from the elevator.

The ducks have a good view of the City and of the Mississippi River,

and a view of the Arkansas-Tennessee bridge across the Mississippi.

The Duck Palace façade.

Their swimming pool, with dinner waiting,

and their own little Peabody Hotel.

I was glad to have the chance to waddle around Memphis a little.  I sit at a computer in my office all day, five days a week, and at night, I sit at my laptop at home, visiting blogs and pinning on Pinterest.   Have you heard the song “Walkin’ In Memphis”?  Due to all my sittin’, I had to change the words to “Waddlin’ in Memphis”.

I waddled myself to an estate sale today (one of the few things I consider worth waddling to).  There wasn’t much there, but I didn’t leave empty-handed.  See what I bought.

 

Two boxes of junk (’cause I need more junk at my house).  Actually, I bought three boxes and maybe I’ll show you the other box of junk some time. I just thought three boxes of junk was more than most people could handle in one post.

You can see the twine and yarn in the first container, but the second is little  mysterious. 

The second box contained a lot of ribbons and trims.  I promptly put the ribbons  on pant hangers like all of those crafty people do on Pinterest (just not as neatly as a real crafter), and I stacked some of my spools of twine on grandmother’s hem marker thingy.

But, (and this is about as big as the one I’m sitting on) I am not a crafter.  I’m no good at it, but when I see these ideas on Pinterest, I think if I organize myself like a real crafter, maybe I can become a crafter (who am I  fooling?).  There was something else in the box that I didn’t  organize, because I’ve  never been inspired by a pin to organize zippers ~ I’m talking about a LOT of zippers!  So, if you need a lot of zippers, email me, and I will send them to you for the cost of postage.

It’s time for me waddle on out of here.  Thank you for visiting  my ducky post.  If you decide to waddle in Memphis, let me know, and maybe I can meet you there. If you plan to walk in Memphis, I fear I wouldn’t be able to keep up.  laurie