What Do You Do When Your Lips Turn Blue?

Here in the south it is supposed to be warm.....with sunshine!  Oh, we have our winter moments but they usually don't last longer than a few days.  Mother Nature has done a complete flip this year and decided that we needed to experience cold temperatures.  Let me re-phrase that.....we needed to experience frigid temperatures!!!  So what do you do when the cows are fed and it is to cold to do anything else but sit indoors by the fire?  You get BORED!!  Boredom on a farm is rare because there is usually so much to do.  But tell that to Mother Nature!!  Well, after sitting around a few hours JR and I decided to seek some excitement!!!

We came across the Mayfield Cow.  This cow was HUGE!  I believe she was giving JR the "eye"!  All the pretty girls do!!

 

 

Of course around here another word for "excitement" is "green" as in "tractors"!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We re-discovered an old railroad museum.  I can't wait to take "Wee Bob" to see this place this summer!  He's really into trains and airplanes!!



Over the many mountains and across the valley in a teeny, tiny village we came across an abandoned "something".  It looked like an old castle or monastery - to me anyway.  After doing some research I learned it was .............

 

 

This place definitely had a spooky feel about it!!

 

 

I could almost hear the ghosts howling to each other.  Yikes!  I really did hear the ghosts ---- right behind this place, up a deserted dirt road, was an old, old, old, old, graveyard!!  Double spooky!!!

I wouldn't want to be there on a cold, dark, windy, night! And yet I couldn't resist the temptation to explore!  Poor JR, he puts up with a lot! 

Some of the tombstones were very elaborate.

 I have been wondering for days who this Claude Barnes was.  Did he have a family?  How did he die?

Some of the elaborate gates and tombstones were being swallowed up by nature.  So sad....

Well enough morbidity....it was time for some real excitement!  After stopping for gas we noticed  - off to the right - THE AUTOMATIC CAR WASH!! Fasten your seat belts everyone and BLAST OFF!!

I imagined I was stuck in some horror movie and these red and blue "hairy monsters" were out to get me!!!

 





After all that commotion it was time for some flea marketing.  JR found this cute little tricycle for Wee Bob.  Now if the weather would ever warm up he might just be able to try it out!!

 

 

And so ends the day.  Our lips are still blue, our feet are still freezing, our hands are still stiff, but we are bored no longer!!

 

P.S.  That abandoned building used to be....an old limestone plant with a castle-like appearance.  Who would have thought???

 

Waiting for daffodils....

Dee Dee