Guinea Hens

These are the three guinea hens we got to keep the tick population down at Cheryl's. They have to be kept penned up for six weeks to acclimate themselves to her yard and then you let them free range.

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

Here is a map of the museum, gardens, and house (remember, you and click on the picture to enlarge it). We loved this place in Winchester, VA.

Road Trip

Faith was at her other grandma's last week for a few days and Cheryl and I took advantage of that and went into Virginia and down towards the Shenandoah Valley. We stopped along the way at Middleburg (hoity toity town) and looked in some shops and had lunch. We took small back roads and drove through some beautiful countryside. We got into our destination town of Winchester mid afternoon and hit the tourist center. We watched a video and picked up brochures and maps and since it was too late to hit our main attraction we hit a few more stores and walked their beautiful historic downtown area.

It was 6 pm by the time we got to our hotel and got checked in. We were tired and just ran to the nearby KFC for dinner and then came back and watched a little TV until we hit the sack at 9:30 pm. The hotel had a great breakfast and we were up and gone by 9 am. We hit Walmart before heading

to the Museum of the Shenandoan Valley They opened at 10 am and we got the first garden and house tour. Then we had lunch in the tea room and did the beautiful new museum for another two hours. (no pictures allowed in the house and museum)

Time to head back towards home (only two hours away), but we took a different route through more small towns and stopped and shopped in Purceville and Leesburg. By then I was exhausted and it was 5 pm and we were still about one hour from home. I would like to go down Skyline Drive in the fall. The area is just so beautiful and there is so much to see. I have to do it just a little at a time.

We had a great time. It was only 165 miles round trip, but we really needed the two days in order to putter around whenever we saw a store we thought looked interesting.

I tried to put paragraphs in this post, but although they show up in the preview, they don't in the post.

Sorry.

Antietam Pictures

The battle here was the bloodiest single day battle in American History. There were 23,000 casulaties that day. The site now consists of beautiful farm land and you can tour the well marked sites of the battle.

We stopped at a few other places and those pictures are included in this slideshow.

For more pictures from that day click on this link:

http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pictures/slideshow?site=peggy41&page=peggy41&album=168

A day trip to Antietam National Park

Friday was a beautiful day (temperature in low 80's in

the afternoon). We decided to go to Antietnam National Park

and to Shepherstown in West Virginia. It is a really beautiful

drive and only about one hour away. We stopped in Boonesboro

to see Nora Roberts new restored old hotel there as we drove

right through the town on our way.

We took a picnic lunch with us and found a beautiful spot in

the park under some huge old shade trees where we had lunch.

I'll post more pictures of the park later. I'd like to go back in

the fall when the trees are turning color, too.

Faith at the Beach

Mother Deer with Fawns

I saw something running around below my condo and when I looked

I realized it was a fawn, not a dog. Then I saw the mother and another

fawn. I ran down downstairs to a window in the lobby where I

could see and get better pictures. They only stayed about five

minutes.

Click this link to see more shots:

http://peggy41.shutterfly.com/157

A Little Humor to Start Your Day

This is an e-mail I got today and thought I would share with you:

A plane was taking off from Kennedy Airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from New York to Los Angeles. The weather ahead is good and therefore, we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax....OH MY GOD! Silence followed, and after a few minutes, the captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier. While I was talking to you, the flight attendant accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!".

A passenger in coach yelled "Thant's nothing, You should see the back of mine!"

Faith

Faith got some headbands for her hair the other day and she

looks so different with this new hair style.

A Day in The Country

Cheryl, Faith and I headed out into the country to the oldest

continuously operating store in Montgomery County. We needed

to buy something to treat chicken mites and this was the only

store around that stocked it. You can find more pictures if you

click this link to a slideshow posted on another site:

http://peggy41.shutterfly.com/130