Puppy Passing Thru

Had a little visitor yesterday.  One of the ladies from the RV forum bought a puppy and was looking for a pet transporter.  I volunteered since the puppy was in Michigan and she's in southern Illinois, so I was a good 1/2 point.  Her name (from the breeder) is Charmed.  She's a Havanese.   Brought her down to her new mom today. It was fun having a puppy in the house, but I forgot how loud they can cry.

A strange new place

 

 She's thinking Zorro is HUGE!

 

Poor Zorro looking scared to death - she moved so fast!

 

Yes I'm cute and I know it

 

 

 

 

Heritage Canyon, Fulton IL

July 19, 2014

After lunch with Roxanne in Fulton, we then visited Heritage Canyon which is a limestone canyon dotted with buildings from the 1800's.

Swinging bridge to the nature trail.

Limestone walls in the canyon from the nature trail

The inside of the small kitchen building.  Kitchens were separate building because they would catch on fire.

The church which can be rented for weddings, but on this day, an outdoor wedding was going to take place a little later in the day.

The inside reminded me of Wayside Chapel where Dad & Chickie, Mom & Ron and Lynn & Ken all got married (as well as couple of friends).

Metal gates in all the buildings stopped from actually going inside.  The pictures are thru the gates (or windows).

 

Need to identify this little (3") bird. He was singing in the tree, but flew down to this tree branch to say "look at me singing"!  Maybe a Kentucky or Nashville Warbler (?)

Inside the printing shop shop

General store

General store

Funeral home - guess besides pine boxes they also used something similar to wicker

Pine casket, children's caskets (black one has a window to see the child) and the embalming table

Just looking at the dentist office was painful.  I should have taken a picture of the tools used.

 

Soda fountain

Horse drawn funeral hearse

Inside of the log cabin.  The bed was so tiny.

 

Tool shed for the log cabin

Covered bridge

Tilting at Windmills, Fulton, IL

"Take care, sir," cried Sancho. "Those over there are not giants but windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone."
     - Miguel de Cervantes

It's that time of year again 'do lunch' for my cousin Roxanne's birthday.  Pick a day and place I told her, except for Saturday.  I want to visit Fulton, IL where our Dutch grandmother was born.  Roxanne had been there about 26 years ago with her Mom & our Grandmother for a Hollander family reunion, and wanted to go back again.

Saturday July 19, 2014

With our wishy-washy plans for the route, off we went.  First a quick 15 minutes stop to see the Wild Bill Hickok memorial in his home town of Troy Grove, Illinois.  Wild Bill then went on to become fugitive, gun fighter, scout for the Union Army, marksman and gambler.  Troy Grove now is one of those town that you blink and may miss it.

   

   

 

Cousin Roxanne & Wild Bill

On to Fulton!  Deciding to stay off I-80 for more scenic route we saw a few small towns and lots of corn and soybeans.

Fulton, Illinois is on the route of the Mississippi River Road National Scenic Byway.  First a quick walk north up the path by the windmill.

 

 

Around to the Windmill Cultural Center.  Very informative of the countries (The Netherlands, France, Germany, etc.) that have windmills and their uses of grinding wheat, rye, flax, as well as sawmills, paint manufacturing and much more.

So many types of windmills! Besides their many uses and styles, we also learned that the position of stopped arms have been used to announce enemies approaching during wars, good news (births, weddings) and other things.

(6767km = 4204mi 1441.2yd)

 

The main attraction in Fulton is the De Immigrant windmill which was manufactured in the Netherlands, shipped to Fulton, and assembled by Dutch craftsmen.

 

Roxanne in front of De Immigrant for scale of the windmill size.

 

The gears inside the windmill.

The windmill itself is run only on wind power. Windmill turns every day except when the winds are too low ~ today about 15 mph, so the brakes are on (chains).

Then a stroll south on the path south of the windmill along the  

 

 Above blue heron took flight just as I wanted to snap a picture, but the one below posed perfectly.

An egret (heron family)

Bridge to Iowa.

The largest turtle jumped in for a swim - darn wild life being camera shy.