👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳2017 March 4, Saturday, Burritt Museum, Cooking on the Mountain Huntsville, Alabama

From 11:00-1:15PM, I was at the Burritt on the Mountain, they were having an event called Fire on the Mountain.

Blacksmiths

Blacksmiths

Demonstrators were engaged in open-hearth cooking throughout the park in different cabins.  

I sampled a biscuit with homemade Apple Butter, & Chocolate cake. 

Other demonstrators were cooking sweet potato pie, roast, and blackberry pie either in open hearths or old cookstoves. 

Demonstrators cooking biscuits on an open hearth

Cooking Chocolate Cake

Cooking on Cook Stove

None of the cabins had utilities, just like our ancestors. 

The Blacksmith demonstrators gave the public a chance to see history in the making. 

A child was asked what happens when the rods get hot? She replied it softens.

The buildings I visited were the Meals Cabin, built-in 1845, the Gardiner Cabin in 1845, the Candler House, the Smoke House, the Bernstein Spring House, the Joel Eddin’s House, the Smith Williams House 1969, the Burritt Barnyard 1890, the BlackSmith Shop 1860, the Sorghum Mill and Furnace, the Balch House and the Madison Church 1884.

Barnyard Animals

The Burritt Mansion was the last building that I toured. 

Two rooms of the mansion were dedicated to Maria Howard Weeden’s, paintings, poems, and art. 

Weeden Art 

Burritt Mansion 

Inside the mansion, I saw a Music Box 

Burritt's Desoto 

I traveled down Monto Santa Mountain to VBCC in Huntsville, where I was going to the home and Garden Show.

I bought my ticket and was given a bag to fill with goodies.

I talked to several vendors, collected a few items, and walked back to my car. 

I had to cross over to Big Spring Park where I saw goldfish swimming. 

GoldFish in Big Spring Pond

Called hubby and they said to meet me in Rogersville for the first Saturday Fish Fry.

Our meal consisted of one piece of fried catfish, four jumbo shrimp, fries, coleslaw, onion, two deep-fried hush puppies, and a drink.

Catfish Meal 

We bought two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies as we were leaving the Fire Department. 

After a full day of driving, walking, and eating I was ready for relaxing. 

A long hot shower stretched out on the sofa. 

Demolition to Construction

Demolition of Madison Square Mall Huntsville

Demolition of Madison Square Mall Huntsville

Demolition began on February 6, 2017, and this is what it looks like at the end of February.
Sears and JC Pennys were the last of the stores to close. It may take up to six months to complete the demolition. 
RCP Company will be developing the new MidCity at this location by 2021.

Brandon School Florence, Alabama Demolished
1899 Brandon School was named for Industrialist Charles M. Brandon 

Brandon School Demolished
1861 Sixth Ward School east of present Brandon Ministries Center site.

Once the demolishing is completed, the construction of a new Florence Hospital will be built on this site. Officials said that it could take up to 32 months to complete. 

The old ECM Hospital will not be torn down but will be replaced with the new occupant

Construction of large-scale entertainment, a sports complex in Foley, Alabama 

Construction of  large-scale entertainment, and sports complex in Foley, Alabama  

Developers BC Foley LLC purchased more than 500 acres on the city's south side from Woerner Beach Express LLC for about 12 million dollars. The property is at the northwest corner of Foley's Beach Express and Baldwin County 20, near McDonald's. 

Coffee High School Florence before demolishing 

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) - In just a few short months, Florence City Schools will begin one of the largest building projects in recent history.
The current Florence Middle School and former Coffee High School is set to be razed and a modern middle school will be constructed in its place.
More than 50 years of wear and tear are certainly noticeable in the hallways of Florence Middle School. At near capacity and facing millions of dollars in repairs, the Florence School Board decided to tear down and start over

Demolition of Kmarts

Demolition of K-Mart, making room for Academy Sports

Tompson Station Tennessee Road Construction 

The Town of Thompson’s Station is working with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) on a re-design of the State Industrial Access (SIA) Road (State Route 6/Columbia Pike/Highway 31) leading to the entrance of the planned Phase 2 expansion of Mars Petcare’s Research and Development facility

🎂🎂🎂 2017 February 20, Celebrating Washington's Birthday Montevallo, Alabama

Hubby and I celebrated Washington's Birthday in Montevallo at the American Village.
George Washington came out of Washington Hall at 12:00PM gave a speech and everyone sang happy birthday to him.
People lined up to receive a free cupcake but there were not enough cupcakes to go around.

Celebrating Washington's Birthday

The exterior of the hall is inspired by George Washington's beloved Mount Vernon. It has beveled-edge block walls. When mixed with paint and sand it gives the appearance of stone masonry, a process called "rustication".

The unique open-air colonnade walkways to the dependency buildings were personally designed by Washington. The four-columned portico is reminiscent of the piazza on the back of Mount Vernon, which overlooks the Potomac. The large Palladian window in The Mount Vernon Room is defined by the arched window, 

Greatest Miniature Museum 

Hall of Presidents and First Ladies

Founders Hall

We visited Colonial Chapel where we listen to a story about a slave who wrote poetry 

We strolled through the Liberty Bell Garden

The Liberty Bell 

The Liberty Bell was commissioned on November 1, 1751, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges for his Pennsylvania colony. The radical charter granted religious liberty to persecuted faiths, including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and others, thus establishing America’s tradition of religious freedom.

The Bell cracked when first tested. 

Two local foundry men recast The Bell and it began service in 1753 tooling special events. In the Revolutionary War, The bell tolled to announce the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the first public reading goes The Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776.

It cracked again on July 8, 1835, during the funeral procession of Chief Justice John Marshall. It was repaired but cracked again in 1846 when it rang for George Washington’s birthday. It has not been rung since. It was not called “The Liberty Bell” until 1839 when William Lloyd Garrison’s anti-slavery publication, “The Liberator” published a poem about the Bell. This use by advocates of the anti-slavery movement made The Bell a new symbol of freedom.

We strolled through the fields of Tulips selecting a few to take home.

Oval Office We visited the Oval Office located in the West Wing of the White House where the last 45 presidents have spent many hours working. We saw a bust of Abraham Lincoln, & Ronald Reagan.  Pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, a group of Ford, Carter, Bush, Nikon, and Reagan. Books are written by various presidents. 

The Resolute desk is a large, nineteenth-century partners' desk mostly chosen by presidents of the United States for use in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk. It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the English oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship Resolute. 

We saw two little girls sharing a seat at Independence Hall

 Montevallo University ranked 13th best public university in the south in its division U.S. News & World Report
College of Distinction
2012*2013*2014*2015*2016

Helping Hands 
The Becoming Sculpture was created by Ted Metz, a University of Montevallo art professor. The sculpture, 16 feet tall and made of bronze, was unveiled on February 15, 2003. The pedestal underneath the sculpture is made of limestone and red bricks. The sculpture depicts two hands: a young hand representing university students reaching out toward the future, and an older hand representing the university itself guiding the student to that future. The separation between the hands represents the student’s graduation. The older hand was modeled after Metz’s own hand, while the younger hand was modeled after one of his student’s hands. The sculpture was created on campus by about 40 university students under the direction of Metz and took 22 months to complete. Approximately 90 individual molds were cast using 5000 pounds of bronze. The sculpture stands near Main Hall and Wills Hall.

We visited the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo 
Initial construction began in November 2008 and created space for 1,000 casket burials and 1,000 in-ground cremations. Except for minor irrigation work, construction was completed in early June 2009. The grounds were consecrated on June 18, 2009, one week before burials.

Ate a Nacho Supreme for dinner

It was a great day for traveling.
We were home by 6:30PM

Valentines's Day Adventure!❤️❤️

Hubby and I celebrated Valentine's at Famous Dave's at Cool Springs.
We ordered the Valentine's Special
Celebrate your Sweetheart Famously!
Our BBQ Feast for TWO
Only $24.99 -Save $10
4 corn on the cob, 7 slices brisket, Several ribs, two pieces of BBQ Chicken, a basket full of fries, baked beans, Coleslaw, cornbread muffins, and a bowl of Collard Greens!!!!
YUM! YUM!
I love this place and we do not have one anywhere near where we live.

A Feast for two (corn on the cob, brisket, chicken, ribs, slaw, fries, baked beans, cornbread muffins, collard greens.

We had two boxes of takeaway.
We rode to Hundred Oaks to see the Bedford Falls Train display.
Hundred Oaks is now Vanderbilt Health Center.

A radio station was parked at Hundred Oaks. A man dressed as a Valentine was passing out free ROSES. I took one and thanked him.

Cupid Rhymes with Stupid 96.3 JACK FM playing what we want!

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" 

❤️❤️

The train display was inside a glass case at one of the doctor's offices.
You could see the display from the outside but to get a better view you needed to go into the waiting room.
I meet this little boy about 7 or 8 years old playing with the buttons.
So, together we would go from one to the other buttons to see what each one would do.
One moved the train, one the trolley, one the sky lift, one the ladder truck, one the fire truck, and one the ambulance. I took several pictures of the display.
The little boy wanted to look at the pictures each picture I took so, I would show them to him.
When I got ready to leave the little boy's father said, thank the nice lady for sharing the pictures with you. I told the little boy and I never thought to ask why he was at the doctor's office. He looked healthy so maybe everything was okay with him.

You are now in Bedford Falls
Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which the American Christmas drama It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" (on which the film is based) is set. The Bedford Falls railway station is the main form of transport to get in or out of the town. The location is used only once in the film when Harry (Todd Karns) comes back from university with his wife Ruth Dakin (Virginia Patton) as George and Uncle Billy are waiting there. While waiting there George says to Uncle Billy that a train whistle is one of the three most exciting sounds in the world. The other two were anchor chains and plane motors

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet

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We walked to the electronics store but they did not have what we wanted. We stopped at the Walmart a few streets down and purchased a few items.
We took the highway US 31 there was a lot of road construction in Thompson Station and we rode by Clarks Distillery but was closed
In Spring Hill we stopped at Murphy for gas and Walmart. We also stopped at Dairy Queen for an Ice Cream (they have the best ice cream).


On our way to Nashville, we stopped at the newly rebuilt I-65 Welcome Center at Ardmore Giles County which features eco-friendly solar panels, recycling, and a Geo-Thermal Operating System.
Inside they have five rocking chairs, a fireplace, and a display about the Civil War.

I-65 Welcome Center at Ardmore Giles County 

It was overcast and rained a little, not much of a day for being outside.
We were home by 6:30PM.

Valentine Poem You are an Angle from Heaven ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fotoons at Disney 

Daughters are the angels from heaven 

They have this fairy light 

They end the darkness in your life 

Making everything oh so bright 

You bought that light in my life 

You are the reason why I strive

My only blessings for you on this day

Is that you stay happy all the way 

That grace on your face is true

Lucky to have a loving daughter like you 

I love you with all my might 

You make my world so bright

Smoky Mts

Taking the Ferry to Boston 

Happy Valentines
to a great mother and a great father.
You are so sweet of love fleet but the best you could do is do let me kiss you.
Lora❤️❤️

I love you, my mom, ️❤️

Sunny days
bring happy thoughts to everyone when their glommie.
Anyway, mommies make my day.
Roses are red violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.
Mommies are sweet,
mommies don't stink,
mommies always think.
When your glommie and fill Lonnie just take a break and shake.
Exercise, always try never ever cry.
 I wish you a very happy day.
If you wish when you are sick, you may just get the wish.
Purple, blue, green, pink, black, brown, gray, no color is prettier than Mother
From
Lora ❤️❤️

Lora❤️❤️

Lora❤️❤️