{"id":3356,"date":"2014-08-28T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2014-08-30T01:42:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:42:17","slug":"road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=3356","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I tell you about the road trip David and I took yesterday, I have a few things to show you that are going on around our house.<\/p>\n

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Molly is holding her own with the big dogs. As you can see here, she is not at all intimidated by Belle, even when Belle barks right in her face. \u00a0She hangs out with Bonnie and Belle pretty much all day now. \u00a0She doesn’t like being in the shop. \u00a0She wants to be where the action is. \u00a0 I love her little tail that curls over her back. \u00a0This is her, “you’re not scaring me,” stance.<\/p>\n

We are training Molly to walk around the pool, not get in it. \u00a0So far, so good. She walks right up to the edge and then walks away. \u00a0I still cage her at night as I am afraid she will fall in the pool and get drowned.<\/p>\n

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The birds are busy eating sunflowers. I am going to plant more next year. \u00a0We have had dozens of birds including several pairs of goldfinches eating on the sunflowers.<\/p>\n

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See the chickadee at the bottom of the picture? \u00a0 It’s hard to get their picture as they grab a seed and fly off to peck it to get the good insides.<\/p>\n

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I believe this is a female goldfinch as she is not as bright yellow.<\/p>\n

While sitting at my sewing machine in my girly room I saw a lot of action on the top of my shop. \u00a0Cardinals were going in and out of the \u00a0gutter getting seeds or bugs or something. \u00a0Then I saw this one.<\/p>\n

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A rather henpecked orange cardinal. \u00a0Yes, it was orange against the reds of the other cardinals. \u00a0I think this may be a young one. He looked kind of sad.<\/p>\n

Then another critter came to eat.<\/p>\n

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There must have been something really good in the gutter to make all these birds and squirrels come to dine.<\/p>\n

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“You lookin’ at me?”<\/p>\n

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Chomp, chomp, chomp.<\/p>\n

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David and I took a road trip. \u00a0We headed to Danville to eat at a special restaurant I had read about.<\/p>\n

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We landed in Mayberry at the Mayberry Cafe.<\/p>\n

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Barney’s police cruiser sat outside ready for him to jump in to catch another criminal.<\/p>\n

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All the televisions inside the cafe ran Andy Griffith shows continuously. \u00a0The food was good too.<\/p>\n

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We sat at Opie’s booth.<\/p>\n

We walked around the town square and saw this little guy.<\/p>\n

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While driving to Danville we went through Bargersville and Mooresville. \u00a0We found a couple of really good antique stores. Did I buy anything? \u00a0 \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n

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I found this cute chalkware chick and a child’s old watering can. \u00a0I \u00a0will use these for Easter decorations next Spring. \u00a0Never too early to plan, you know.<\/p>\n

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We stopped at this antique store and it was full of treasures.<\/p>\n

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I got two yards of this beautiful fabric for four dollars. \u00a0A good deal. \u00a0It’s already hanging out on the line drying after I rinsed it to get the dyes set.<\/p>\n

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I collect American flags and found this 48 star flag at a very good price. \u00a0I have several 48 star flags and one 49 star flag which is kind of hard to find as the 49 star flag wasn’t around very long. \u00a0Some day I am going to hang all my flags all around my house outside just to see how many I have.<\/p>\n

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I have never been in Avon and we were passing through and I saw this quilt shop and we had to stop.<\/p>\n

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I just got a few pieces for a quilt I am working on right now.<\/p>\n

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We so enjoyed our drive on the back roads of Indiana. My state is so beautiful in the summer even though it is so hot. \u00a0Everything looks lush and green.<\/p>\n

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The fields are getting ripe for harvest. \u00a0It is said our corn crop is great this year. \u00a0I am glad for the farmers and I hope they fill their barns and silos and make a good profit on their crops because some years can be very poor for farmers. \u00a0We have had just enough rain to make everything grow well.<\/p>\n

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It saddens me that the old wooden barns are disappearing from the landscape. \u00a0Someone said once that most children don’t even know what a haymow is. \u00a0It’s to store the hay. \u00a0It was a great place to play when I was a girl. \u00a0It’s where mother cats hid their kittens among the hay bales. \u00a0It’s where you swung from the hay hook suspended high above. The hay hook that would hook the bails of hay and then they would be swung into the haymow. \u00a0I have so many happy memories of the haymow on my daddy’s farm. \u00a0We played basketball up there also when there wasn’t hay in the way.<\/p>\n

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I will leave you with a picture of the calendar I bought the other day. \u00a0 Everyone should keep chickens. \u00a0I highly recommend it. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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