{"id":8018,"date":"2018-04-23T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2018-04-23T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:23:45","slug":"traveling-south-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"Traveling South Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

David and I love to travel.\u00a0 We have been in every state in our country except for Hawaii for David and Hawaii and Rhode Island for me.\u00a0 Some of the states we have visited several times. We love the west.\u00a0 But we love the south, north and east also.\u00a0 It was hard deciding where to go this year. Since we have not spent a lot of time in Mississippi except the time when my brother and his family lived there, we decided to travel that state to the Gulf.\u00a0 We also planned a stop in a town where one of our favorite television shows is filmed.<\/p>\n

I was having mixed feelings about leaving my pets this time as our favorite pet sitters have closed their business.\u00a0 They are older than us, so I was not surprised that they had decided to do so, but I was worried at finding a new pet sitter. Then someone suggested a girl who attends our church so I called her and she came and visited and I at once felt calm about leaving my dogs and chickens with her.\u00a0 The dogs loved her the first time they met her.\u00a0 As dogs are very good judges of people, I knew she would be very good to them.\u00a0She is a really sweet girl and very good with animals as she works at a dog daycare\u00a0where\u00a0I plan to take Molly this Summer for some play with other dogs as Belle would rather sleep than play.<\/p>\n

So we left and I actually cried a little at leaving them and all the flowers that were in bloom around our house.\u00a0 Crazy, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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The daffodils and magnolias were blooming and here is my crab apple I really hope won’t bloom and be gone before we get back as I wait for it every year.<\/p>\n

So off we set.<\/p>\n

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Down the road.<\/p>\n

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Through little Indiana towns.<\/p>\n

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Over the bridge over the Ohio River.<\/p>\n

And south.<\/p>\n

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We stop at little out of the way places. Not a big tourist site, but interesting.<\/p>\n

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A park where we stretched our legs.\u00a0\u00a0 Walking around the paths twice was a quarter of a mile. Yes, I am counting my steps again.<\/p>\n

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This old house was next to the bridge park and there were feral cats coming in and out of it.\u00a0 I think they have taken it over.<\/p>\n

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There is something about old, abandoned houses that interest me.\u00a0 I often tell David if I were a billionaire I would travel the country and restore these old houses to their former grandeur so people could again live in them.\u00a0 What history would this old house tell?<\/p>\n

We passed many old houses the first day as we traveled further and further south.<\/p>\n

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Wouldn’t this house be beautiful if repaired and brought back to life?\u00a0 Now a farmer keeps his tractor parked where the cars use to park.\u00a0 I could see me having a sewing room in that upstairs room with the big windows.<\/p>\n

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There are still a few log cabins around. When I was a girl, there were two log cabins near my home. My brothers and I use to have walnut fights in one of them.\u00a0 Those cabins are long gone.\u00a0 It appears someone is trying to preserve this one with a new metal roof on the porch.<\/p>\n

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You don’t see these houses driving the interstate.\u00a0 This one must have housed a large family at one time. I think of the Waltons looking at it.<\/p>\n

Besides houses the trees and flowers were in bloom everywhere the farther south we got.<\/p>\n

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This is what my crabapple looks like every Spring.\u00a0 At least I got to see a flowering crabapple this year.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful blooms everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Then, we noticed something strange ahead.<\/p>\n

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I believe they have landed!\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t know what this was.\u00a0 But it looks alien.<\/p>\n

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I always think of the south when I see azaleas.\u00a0 Even the most humble home looks wonderful with azaleas blooming in the yard.<\/p>\n

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Another park where I walked in a wonderful southern town with lots of old houses.<\/p>\n

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They really knew how to build them.\u00a0 Many houses built today are all pretty generic.<\/p>\n

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This house looked like a castle.<\/p>\n

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David was trying to get out of all the pictures I was taking!<\/p>\n

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Big front porches where one could sit and rock and sip sweet tea.<\/p>\n

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I fell in love with this little house and it had a name.<\/p>\n

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If I were a little old lady(well, I kind of am) and didn’t have a husband(which I don’t want to happen), I would live in a little pink house like this with a dog at my feet and a quilt to work on in my hands.\u00a0 I would invite people in for sweet tea and cookies.<\/p>\n

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I love the ingenuity of people. Who thinks of planting flowers in an old boat, but it works.<\/p>\n

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A pumpkin colored house.\u00a0 We are getting our house repainted in a year or two.\u00a0 Think this would be a good color!<\/p>\n

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Some of the houses had little carriage houses in the back converted to something else.<\/p>\n

Then we got to one of our destinations.<\/p>\n

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Down tree covered streets with large live oaks covering them. Past beautiful parks. This town had so many parks.<\/p>\n

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Live oaks, a tree that is everywhere in the south.\u00a0 Thankfully, many have been allowed to grow to this size.\u00a0 Many dripping with Spanish moss.<\/p>\n

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Roses blooming in profusion.\u00a0 Then we reached our destination.<\/p>\n

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We were in Laurel, Mississippi.\u00a0 The site of the home renovation show Home Town. This is Ben and Erin Napier’s\u00a0mercantile.\u00a0 Of course I bought a few things here. It was a cute little store.\u00a0 I was hoping maybe one of them would show up, but I am sure they have better things to do.<\/p>\n

So on south we went.\u00a0 I will write more soon. Bye.<\/p>\n

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