Oktoberfest in Chattanooga!

Wow! What a wonderful Sunday we've had!  Started the day off with church and the Holy Spirit was working so mightily that the Pastor didn't even get to deliver his sermon!  People just start coming down to the altar and getting saved!  One person got baptized and another joined the church!  When you spend the week praying and are sensitive enough to move over so as not to interfere with the working of the Holy Spirit, as our Pastor is, God can work in mighty ways!  We saw that happen this morning! 

After a wonderful time in worshipping the Lord, my husband and I went to Sticky Fingers for their Sunday buffet deal!  Yum! 

After that, it was so beautiful outside, we decided to go home and shed the dress clothes and go downtown to the Oktoberfest celebration and just walk around and I was hoping to get some good orchard apples! I've been wanting some for a while now!  The apples you get in store are nothing like what comes off the trees in the fall!  I also am posting some of the pictures of the booths and the artisan wares that I snapped photos of today. 

Here are some pictures of the delicious apples I got today!

 The above picture is of glass and brass wind-chimes.

The artist that made the above wooden bowls was very interesting.  He said he just started working with wood about two years ago!  His work was beautiful as you can see.  

It looked like glass it was polished so smooth! 

There were also some vintage VW Bugs on display.  There were two "Hippy Mobiles" I called them.  

One was a camper and the other a Hippy Surfer-Mobile. :)

 

Below are the pictures of the VW Beetles! 

Hippy Camper!

 

Surf's Up Dude!

 

 

Happy Fall!!

Great Dane Show Draws thousands to Chattanooga, TN

These bronze statues of Great Danes were at the entrance on both sides of the building we had to enter to get into where the trials were going on.  The guy on the right was just an irresistible fella we passed on the way in and he was so docile and friendly, I had to take his picture!

This afternoon, we took Sarge, our Boxer out for a walk downtown.  We wanted to take him out for some exercise and wanted to get a Starbucks also. We got our coffee and headed downtown and decided to go walking around the gardens at the Choo-Choo.  

To our surprise, there is a huge Great Dane National Championship Dog Show going on right in our own city, and we didn't even know it!  Shows you how "informed" WE are!! :) 

Anyway, it's going on through Saturday this week at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.

While we were there, Sarge got to see some bigger dogs than he is! He loved his sight-seeing walk today!

What I couldn't get over is how beautiful and graceful these dogs are!  They are also very docile!  Each one we came upon (almost each one) let us come right up to them and pet them.  They're very sweet animals.  The only bad thing is that they have a very short life-span.  Their owners told us they usually only live 8 to 10 years.  A 10-year old dog is a really old dog in a Great Dane.  I don't think I'd ever want one because I'd fall in love with them and then it would break my heart when they died so soon.  They are gorgeous animals though.

You can click on the link below to learn more about the Great Dane Competition in Chattanooga:

http://www.newschannel9.com/news/chattanooga-985703-great-competition.html

Here are a few of the pictures that I snapped when we went back later just to walk around a bit.

I will post more pictures in a day or two.  

We plan to go back again later in the week to see some of the dog show.  

I also took more pictures around the Choo-Choo gardens.

New Addition!

Please scroll to the bottom of my page to see a Slide-Show of the jewelry I've made this weekend! All of my designs are my own and will be for sale. If anyone is interested in purchasing my jewelry, please email me at lrhobart@bellsouth.net. Thank you!

I've also added a slide-show of some of the photos I took of the Walnut St. Pedestrian Bridge in downtown Chattanooga.