This is the farm where I grew up, lots of good memories there. I spent my time working, doing chores exploring the woods, hunting, and whatever else my Dad needed me to do. We had a Border Collie for a cow dog, she was my constant companion for ten years, followed me all over the countryside, good memories indeed. After talking with the current owners, they graciously allowed me to walk around the farm to my heart's content
I started walking around the barn and other buildings
This is the old machine shed
The old Barn, I think is was built in 1921 The old barn
The tobacco shed, remember hanging tobacco in this shed, that was hard work
a view of what remains, other small building and fences are missing now
Next was walk to out on this point
entering the woods
found a flower blooming
Heading back to the buildings
fences are gone now
Next I walked over what used to be the tobacco field, and what used to be other pasture
A deer stand, saw many signs of deer, I would suspect there are now as many deer as there where cattle when my Dad was farming
the old hill road
I used to chase cows up and down this hill road, both morning and evening, every day during the summer.
The path back to the barn
back at the barn, it has been many years since I walked this path
a view from where the house now stands
A view of the farm as I was driving back to Lansing Iowa, where I was staying.
The first walk while visiting my relatives in Wisconsin, was a walk to an abandon gravel quarry that had been turned into a park. This park is on a bluff over looking the Mississippi River, just north of Genoa Wisconsin
When going back down the hill. we took the scenic route, that was fun!
Here is my walking mileage for the last couple of weeks, because of a family emergency I had to make a trip to the mid-west. Took lots of pictures they are coming.
3/29/2010, 2.5 miles 3/30/2010, 4.45 miles 3/31/2010, 4.55 miles 4/3/2010, 4.5 miles 4/6/2010, 5.57 miles YTD 331.45 miles 4716.55 miles to go
The Epics are filled with many inspiring passages, This from The Aeneid comes to mind
"Recall your courage; banish gloomy fears.Some day perhaps the memory of these things shall yield delight. Through various accidents, Through many a strait of fortune, we are bound For Latium, where our fates point out to us A quiet resting place. There it's decreed Troy's kingdom shall arise again. Be firm, And keep your hearts in hope of brighter days"
If America had an epic this would have to be included from the Declaration Of Independence.
"When in the course of Human events, it becomes necessary of one people to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another, and to assure among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitled them ,a decent respect to the opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of the ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness, Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments are established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer-able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation's pursing invariably the same object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their duty to throw off such a government, and provide new Guards for their future Security."
Here is my walking mileage for the last several days.
3/10/2010, 9.68 miles 3/12/2010, 5.43 miles 3/14/2010, 10.42 miles 3/15/2010, 6.25 miles 3/16/2010, 4.35 miles YTD miles, 302.88 miles 4745.12 miles remaining on my virtual trek across the United States
Last Sunday I was back at Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park, the terrain is hilly, when walking these trails you are either ascending or descending in elevation.
The wildflowers are beginning to bloom, that is a sure sign of spring.
Book 19 opens with Odysseus and Telemachus removing all the armor in the cloister and putting it in a storeroom, on the premise it was getting soiled with soot, and the suitors could, after drinking to much wine, use them on each other. Telemachus tells Euryclea to take the maids to their room while this is being done, this she does. Athena lights the way for them, and then Telemachus goes to bed, Odysseus talks with Penelope.
First Penelope asks Odysseus where he is from and who are his parents, then she relates to him the sadness she feels over her husband. How she had to invent stratagems to deceive the suitors, weaving a shroud for her father in-law, she was good at this till she was found out by her maids. Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, relates many convincing truths that he had seen and entertained her husband years before his the way to Troy, and tells her he is convinced Odysseus will be back home by the end of this year. Penelope has her nurse Euryclea prepare a bath for Odysseus, Euryclea recognizes a scar on Odysseus’s leg and hugs, he tells her to be quiet and not tell anyone who he is, this she promises to do. Penelope tells how she wants to set up a test for the suitors, shooting an arrow though twelve axes as her husband used to do. Odysseus tells her to set up this contest.
I started walking around the barn and other buildings
This is the old machine shed
The old Barn, I think is was built in 1921
The old barn
a view of what remains, other small building and fences are missing now
entering the woods
found a flower blooming
Heading back to the buildings
fences are gone now
A deer stand, saw many signs of deer, I would suspect there are now as many deer as there where cattle when my Dad was farming
the old hill road
I used to chase cows up and down this hill road, both morning and evening, every day during the summer.
The path back to the barn
back at the barn, it has been many years since I walked this path
A view of the farm as I was driving back to Lansing Iowa, where I was staying.
