Peducah Kentucky March 17 2014

 

We had a busy spring break. After getting home from a Hill Country vacation Michael and I took Grandma back home to her house in Michigan. We drove her car and on the way spent a couple of days in Peducah Kentucky, as Mom is a quilter. She loved it. They have the national quilt museum, which was out of this world and then they had a Hancock's warehouse. The Hancock warehouse was enormous. I was stunned when we walked in there bolt after bolt of fabric. Mom didn't even make it all the way through...Who knew things like that existed?? 

 

 

Peducah is located where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi river. They have built flood barriers and on the flood barriers are murals. The murals were beautiful and told the history of the area, so neat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few close ups of the Murals...

 

 

 

Town was not hopping as it was cold and windy but I can imagine in the summer it's a pretty busy place...

 

 

 

Tug boat with barge...

 

Mom loved the brick roads...

 

I liked the license plate with a foal on it...

 

Michael and I checked out the River Discovery Center. He was able to drive a simulator that handled a speedboat, coast guard cutter and a tugboat...

 

Flood gate

 

We found a pile of snow in the parking lot, ekk!

 

 

The National Quilt Museum!

 

Mom was enjoying it!

 

We ate lunch here and it was delicious and reasonably priced too!!

 

After lunch checking out the town!

 

 

 

I saw the silhouettes in the top windows, too cool!!

It wasn't a place I'd normally stop to check out but so glad Mom wanted to as it was pretty interesting.

 

More photos coming soon of the rest of our trip!!

 

 



A little peak at what we've been doing this past week....

 

Union Station Chicago Illinois!!!

We arrived by train and left by train (Amtrak)...The story of the past week will be posted soon but I wanted to share a few photos from part of our day on March 21st...

 

 

God Bless the U.S.A.

 

We ate lunch here...pretty good pizza!

 

I thought of Fred when I saw the Dunkin doughnut sign, he loves Dunkin doughnuts!

 

Michael always 20 steps ahead of me...

 

That is what he thinks of my photo taking..

 

Chicago Illinois...

 

More photos of our week to come and also the rest of the story....

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is blooming around here...

 

 

 

The blue bonnets are just starting to come up. I expect by next Saturday the whole back pasture will be blue...I can't wait!

 

 

 

I found a little dayflower in the blue bonnet plants....

 

 

 

In the garden area I have several plants blooming, so love the colors!!

 

 

And my seedlings are growing. I won't be able to plant them until next weekend. I hope they do okay until I can get them in the ground.

 

Here's hoping y'all have a great weekend!!

Pray for rain!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family vacation...

This past weekend, for 4 days, we took a family vacation. Fred came with us, the first time in 3 years and it was so nice to have some quality R&R with him. Dawn, Skeeter and the kiddo's met us and we all had a great time in one of our favorite places, Vanderpool Texas (Texas Hill Country). We rented a house on the Sabinal river and enjoyed ourselves.

 

 

Hwy 337 coming in to Vanderpool...beautiful!

 

 

 

My happy boys!

 

Sabinal River, it had some water in it but not much! We sure do need some rain!

 

 

Vinca which is grown for the vine not the flower thus vinca vine per my Mother as this is not a wildflower.

Dacey and Michael trying to figure out how to get Michael's fish off the hook!

 

 

Enjoying the hot tub on a chilly night.

 

 

Dacey, Trey and Michael enjoying the Sabinal river in the early morning.

 

 

She has grown up to be a beautiful young lady!!

 

 

 

Dawn, Skeeter, Trey and Dacey...

 

 

Dawn and I...

 

The view from the driveway of the house...We stayed at River Rock Ranch rented by Foxfire cabins.

 

 

Our last morning there, sigh!!

 

View from the front yard...

 

 

Heading home...We took 187 to 470 through Tarpley to Bandera...

 

 

 

It was nice to come home but sure wish our vacation could have been a bit longer. Always nice to get away and relax.

 

Lots of things going on around here and I hope to be back in another week to post more photos!

Y'all take care and enjoy the sunshine!!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh so busy...

 

I am so tired and oh so busy lately...So much happening lately and even more happening in the next month. I've been taking photos but just haven't had a minute to post.

I hope to start posting more in April and share with you what has been happening around here. We've been going from beautiful warm days (80's) to Cold (30's) and windy...But spring is in the air and the birds, butterflies and blooms know it!

 

 

My mother use to make Michael pillowcases out of the designs he liked. I got a used sewing machine last year and Mom thought it was time I started using it. So I've been learning to make Pillow cases. It's really easy and I've been having fun learning how to do it. Michael got 3 new pillow cases and I made 2 more, one for me and one for a friend. I think I can do it now with out Mom's help.

Michael loves the tanks and helicopters

 

 

I loved the horse pattern on this one...I love bright colors!

 

The wildflowers are coming up and here are a few photos I took today...

Oh so pretty, love the white fence too...

 

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Hopefully come April things will slow down a bit, maybe? I just remembered the garden, ekk. I got the potatoes planted as a frost won't really hurt them. I also put the zucchini and yellow squash seeds in, hopefully they won't sprout yet and we are done with freezes. But last year we kept getting freezes and frost up to April...So I may wait to put everything else in...

Hope y'all are getting some warmth and sunshine where ever you are...