So here's the short of it, 
We had quite an adventure tonight.  

And here's the long

Mom and I planned to make a garden supper tonight since Aunt Joyce was coming back through on her way home from visiting David and Cyndi and kids.  So I took tomatoes, cucumbers, and cottage cheese down and Mom made her delicious fried corn and cornbread.

As we were getting it going, Joyce called.  She was stranded on the side of I59 somewhere between Gadsden and Chattanooga.  She had come up over a rise on the interstate and there in the road was a big piece of tire that she couldn't avoid.  It put a big hole in the left rear tire - she made it over to the side of the interstate, but she couldn't see the sign, but thought she was somewhere near Rising Fawn. She assured us that she had roadside hazard coverage and that she would have someone there to help her really soon.

The three of us went ahead with dinner but a phone call afterwards and Joyce was still sitting on the side of the road somewhere and not sure when help would be there.  Alan insisted that we go to check on her, so we loaded up and headed out.  As we got started we called and found out that her battery had gone down!  Now, since she drives a Prius and neither of us knows much about them and were a bit worried about that piece of news.   A few minutes later Joyce called again and said that she couldn't read the sign, but that it wasn't shaped like Rising Fawn and that she thought it might say Fort Payne!  Alan said (I swear this is true!) I'll bet she's at mile 120.  Believe it or not, we passed the first exit to Fort Payne at mile 121 and there she was on the side of the road between mile 121 and mile 120!

The tow truck was only about 10 minutes behind us - he had also driven from Chattanooga!  He boosted the battery and put the spare donut tire on and we were ready to head to Mom's.  I road with Joyce, and Alan followed along behind to be sure we were OK.  We got home about 10:30!  What an evening adventure!