Yesterday...what a day it was!

I should have did this post yesterday, but simply too weary to get it together.  We headed to one place, but on the way decided to find the Skinner Farm Museum & Village.

I just recently ran across it while looking at a list of round barns and where they are located.

So we find it...and we can see no place that is used as an entrance.  There were a couple places that we could pull over out front and I could take some pics.

The house set way back off the road...and we really seen no road to it.  We decided to head on to our original destination which was the place we saw the eagles in yesterday's post.  As we were driving past where we could see back by the house, there was someone walking up to the house and kind of looking out at us...and they were carrying something which I assumed was an animal.  I waved and they waved...

On down the way, there was a public road on the west side of the farm...so we decided to turn down it to see if there was  an entrance there.  No such luck, but I took a few more pics and we drove on down the way, turned around and came back.  And there was 'the person' out at the mailbox.

We stopped and talked to him, for it was the owner.  And he was carrying a big old white/gray spotted cat.  He said  he would give us a tour sometime if we wanted...so we asked how about now.  And he said come on...so we pulled in and got out. 

First let me describe Norman...he was a little guy....he might have been an inch or two over 5 ft. tall...NOT at all overweight...just regular size.  He had on a ball cap with three or four pins/badges? on it, but for the life of me I don't know why I didn't see what they said.  And he walked just a little bit stooped over..  He wore glasses on the end of his nose, and with him walking a bit stooped his head was bent forward too...and he looked up at you over those glasses.

Right away we learned that he had moved most of the buildings there.  See that 2-story brick house in the background....it had belonged to his family and he moved it to this spot from 3 or 4 miles down the road.  All the other buildings he had moved from other places...

This little covered bridge bridge was moved from at least 30 miles away...

He first took us in this other building...and it was full of old cars and trucks.  Two close together to even walk around them...let alone get decent pics.  Stuff was hanging from the rafters, something sitting in every square inch.  He even had the first car he had ever owned.  Then he took us in the Blacksmith's Shop...it had been moved to the property. 

Next, he took us in a building that was full to the brim of old tractors...he has 50 of them....there were old threshing machines...I am here to tell you our heads were spinning by the time we left there.  Neither Roger nor I can remember what was what.  He knew so much, and we were both wondering how in the world he he was able to move everything there.  He had been collecting all his life. 

There is so much more...some I didn't get photos of.  He had some old printing presses, old stoves that were the last made in a nearby town.  He had a Conestoga wagon, but where it was at there was no way I could get a picture.  He had got it in Kentucky...there was something else he had driven to Pennsylvania to get but I cannot remember what.

I can't wait now to go back there again in weather when it is dry...and not muddy.

More from the antique shop...

I did not take a whole lot of pics, at least not compared to what was there.  But I want to share a few more right now...

How's this for a riot of color and beauty?  If you had any of these beautiful plates would you use them?

There are reflections, but still, don't you think the girls are so well done?

Every which way we turned, there was more stuff to see.  I don't think we seen it all even though we basically went round the whole building at least a couple times.

Isn't it a beauty?

I want to remind you to click to expand the view.  You will be able to see so much better.  I wonder does anyone else like this kind of stuff?  I love it, and but have very little.  I just don't have a place to put it.

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I only made a couple of x-blocks late this evening.  Like the ones shown here. I have over 20 of them now.  I am going to have to come to a decision on what I want to do with them.  I tend to make them or crumb blocks when I want to sew, but don't want to commit to something.

I have enough of the Falling Charms blocks to make a quilt, but am of the mind to leave them be for now.  And put them together later.  With Christmas right around the corner, I would probably not quilt it and I had rather have blocks waiting to be put together as to have a quilt top folded and waiting.  Not that I don't have plenty that are folded and waiting.  I have probably a dozen and most of them full-sized quilt tops...

It was such a beautiful day that we went shooting...I cannot tell you how long its been since I did any shooting.  And I didn't do much today...just went to be out with Roger.  But, I forgot how much I love the smell of gunpowder.  It is right up there with wood smoke or new mowed hay.

At the antique shop...

It was a warm--50+º day...WITH sunshine I might add, so we headed out.  Our first stop was at an antique shop in Arcola, Illinois.

There were quilts here and there...I only took two or three photos of them.  But notice in the background of the one above, there is a schoolhouse quilt hanging.

The one above is one of my favorite quilt patterns...

And I always like fan quilts.
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I took photos of other things, but will show them another day.  I would like to go back and take more photos.  This one place was so huge and had so much stuff.  It was crammed full. 

Clothes drying weather...

Saturday, my oldest daughter and I went on a little drive to go to this Amish owned antique and junk store...it is out in the country sort of in the middle of no where. When we got there, signs said there was a sale and that they were open...but no one was around and the door was locked. So, we figured they might be having lunch, so went for a drive in the country up there.

It definitely must have been wash day for the Amish...every Amish farm we passed had clothes on the line. I only took a couple pictures but want to go back and take more. We did wind up back at the Turkey Run Antiques, they were open, and I did buy a couple books. But no rocker...which is what I was hoping to find.

Today, I should have stayed home and had clothes on the line today, but instead we went to the woods in the hopes of finding a few early mushrooms. I am sorry to say there was no luck in that department. I didn't even take my camera and I so regretted that. Things are slowly starting to come up, and even a few things were blooming. I saw Dutchman's britches and trout lilies, and a number of things I do not know the name of. I could have stayed busy just trying to get good images of those things.

We came home, and I fixed a bite of dinner...and have since taken some pictures of things for Roger. Now it is time to get back to my current project...and no, it isn't for Lorelei. Hopefully I will get done in the next few days. It is sure a slow process....