ANOTHER TRIP TO 'TRAIL OF TEARS'

Hey neighbor! Hope you've had a great weekend. I've had a very long, but enjoyable one. My daughter went to Vegas to help celebrate her best friends wedding, so Thursday I drove 45 minutes to pick granddaughter up after school, in Springfield, then on to her house to pick up my grandpup ( my granddaughter informs be this is my relationship to him ), and then 45 minutes back home.

Well, let me tell you. My grandpup is like havin' a two year old. And havin' a two year old when you're not use to havin' a two year old, well just let me say, I AM POOPED. Grandpup Clyde is a handful.

He never rests. He never slows down. He aggravates Sadie (yorkie) and battles constantly with our kitten, Skitty. I was kinda glad to take him home but now that I'm back home I kinda miss him.

I meant to get this post out Friday but I'm sure you can figure out why I didn't. So even though I've got to go rest so that tomorrow I can mop all my floors I'm gonna do a quick post.

We went back to The Trail of Tears old amusement park on old Route 66. If you remember we went last summer and everything was grown up and we couldn't really get back in there to see things because I'm sceared of snakes, ticks, chiggers and MOMO.

We went two weeks ago and it was a beautiful day.

This guy had water runnin' out of his mouth and ice too.

See the red in the background?

It's this old buildin'. I'm not sure what they would have used it for. Last summer you couldn't see it for all the vines. I didn't even know it was there.

This was so cool. Water comin' out of the guys mouth and ice was hangin' off of him. I guess the water use to make the wheel turn.

Here's the gazebo. I'd like to have this table and rock seats at my house. Somebody would probably just run over it with a tractor though.

Hmmm, kinda interestin'.

Hoochie Mama! She would have been stolen a long time ago if she hadn't been set in stone. Don't you think she's a hoochie mama? I mean I kinda thought this was a family type place, and back in the 60's and 70's no less.

I'm not real sure what this is suppose to be. Had red glass in the little windows. Maybe the hoochie mama lives in there.

Here's where water runs through. Hard to tell what it was suppose to look like. I'm sure this place was beautiful in its day. A lot of work was put into it. And wait till you see the house. I'm not gonna show it till next time. Yeah, this is a two parter!

Rock walled fences all around the place.

Terraced rock walls. I bet a lot of flowers and plants grew there. I'm just thinkin', I really don't know. I searched on the web but never found any pictures from back then.

Here's that Indian girl and Buffalo again. They're still runnin' and she's still holdin' onto his tail.

More terraced walls. I wish you could see it in the real. Much more impressive. You just know some major time and effort put into this place.

Cool shot lookin' back down to the entrance.

Up near the top of the hill, was a lane that branched off and you can see another Buffalo.

Hope you enjoy lookin' at the winter time pictures of Trail of Tears.

If I knew how to link to a previous post I would do that for you but since I don't know how and I'm too tired to try and figure it out, just check out on the right hand side under labels, Trail of Tears. You can go there and compare what I saw last time durin' the summer and what I saw this winter. If anyone wants to tell me how to link to an older post I would forever be grateful and I'll name my next child after you.

Goodnight and I'll post the rest of the pictures later. Too cool, what's at the top of that hill. I had no idea.

R.