But Nana and Poppa make sure we're safe by putting up the safety screen:
Autumn and Brenna played up here before we left Pittsburgh, and want to sleep here when they travel with Nana and Poppa.
So, last night we arrived at The Castle Post. A big rain storm came in, so we only got a picture of the bed last night:
I had a feeling this was going to be Nana and Poppa's bed and that Dottie and I would be sleeping in the backpack again.
Here's what we got this morning:
There be dragons!
But no center strap.
More dragons!
Time to practice. Are Mommy and Autumn practicing at home?
Poppa loved the billiard room...
...and the poker room.
We left The Castle Post and drove to a less glamorous place - Fort Boonesboro. Poppa was a big Daniel Boone/Davy Crockett fan when he was young, as were most boys back then. (WAAAY back then - giggle)
Outside:
Inside:
The settlers were coming west from Virginia looking for land that they could own. Land was available for homesteading, similar to what we saw in the Badlands last summer. They had to carry all of their belongings and tools, pots and pans, food, seeds for planting - everything. The first settlers had to cut roads through the forest in very hilly land. Once they got there, they had to build a fort for protection from the Indians, with little lean-tos to sleep in. Their deal for land said that they had to clear it and grow a certain amount of crops. they had to build a cabin and do other things to keep the land. Here are some of the things we saw in the fort.
Inside a cabin:
Linen break to separate flax fibers to make cloth:
A loom for weaving flax and wool together to make linsey woolsey:
A flintlock pistol:
Who would have guessed - a still:
The blacksmith shop:
There have been beautiful irises all through Kentucky. Poppa hopes his are still blooming when we get home. This one was at Boonesboro:
After Boonesboro, we drove to Natural Bridge State Park and got set up for Thursday.
- Tigger and Dottie seeing the country with Nana and Poppa
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