Knox Rail Salvage

Today was the day I have been looking forward to since before we even moved down here. We finally got to go to Knox Rail Salvage and purchase all of the tile for our bathroom floor and shower, and vanities and tops. I am so excited about this project! Unfortunately it is costing us a lot more than we originally thought because of water damage, but it will be worth it in the end!  We left our house early to go to Knox Rail to meet Terry and get everything purchased. Here is Gatlinburg at 7am. 

No traffic! It takes us about an hour to get to Knoxville, where Knox Rail Salvage is.

Knox Rail is the coolest place I have ever been. It started because cargo would fall off of trains,  and the owner's grandfather would collect it and sell it because the property no longer belonged to anyone. The owner now is Joel. He is a super nice Christian man who had very nice things to say about Isaac, our contractor. He gave us 10% off of our entire order since we are friends with Isaac. What a nice gesture!

I'm going to wait and show you the tile when some of it's up, since it doesn't look too exciting the box! Here are the entry doors we picked out:

 The first one is our "front" door that you see when you pull up the driveway and the second door will be upstairs and open up into the kitchen/living room. I'm not sure what color to paint them to look good with our green house and brown deck. I'm open to suggestions! 😀

I couldn't help but snap another picture on the way through Pigeon Forge. You can only see the bottom layers of the mountains because the tops are so smokey today. And look at those clouds! 😍

The kids were just getting up when we got home at 10:30. They were zonked after their day at Wonderworks yesterday! I wanted to go to Ace to get some spray paint for a project, so I took the boys with me and went for a scenic drive out of town towards Pittman Center where the school is. Talan snapped some pictures along the way.

 Then Easton took over and won the award for best photo of the day! 

Apparently Easton spent some quality time with Missy later in the afternoon because I found these pictures on my phone:

More work continued in the bathroom today. The big project was cutting a hole in our bedroom wall. We are going to hang a sliding barn door over the opening and close up the door that goes into the living room. I have never had a master bathroom before so I pretty much insisted on doing this. 😂

 I found this hottie peeking through the new door. I love this man so much! 

After Isaac and Terry left, I heard glass outside my bedroom window. I had thrown a bag of trash onto the trailer because I thought they were taking it, and this mama bear smelled it and tore it open!

After that mess was cleaned up, Janae, Diana and I walked up town around 8pm. Traffic was heavier than this morning!

 There were some great places for photos. I can't believe how old Janae is looking! Hopefully one of these days she'll start acting her age. 😂

 And finally, Gatlinburg on our way home. It didn't take long for people to start heading out for the night. By 9pm it was pretty peaceful at our end of town.  In our "treehouse" you would never know how close we are to all of this.  I can't wait to get our house finished and start having visitors! 😘