Vacation

My Trip to Illinois Part II

Day Two:

We took a walk around the property so I could see what exactly we own. This is a view from the spot they picked out for our future cottage...it looks out to our little pond.


Matthew planted some grape vines to start his own vineyard


Beautiful fall colors


One of our soybean fields


Here's our other pond:


My mom took me to see the Plasters Grove church, which was donated by my great great grandpa. There's only 11 members of the church :( So if it goes under the land goes back to us...what the heck would our family do with a church and cemetery?!


On the drive back to the cabin, there was a huge gross turkey vulture thing eating a dead animal on the road:


Pretty red plant: :)

Vacation

My Trip to Illinois Part I

..Day One..

At the end of September I went home for a visit. Matthew picked me up from the airport and the plan was to drive straight to the farm where my mom would arrive a couple hours later. Well, Matthew and I ended up going about 3 hours out of our way due to great conversation! Aka: Matthew can't multi-task ;)

So we arrived at the farm at the exact same time as my mom. So it was dark when we got there, but we made a fire and it was great! Matthew puts copper in it so there's really cool colors.





My mom brought Abby so I could visit with her, and that night she started out in the yard staked out on a post, whined and ended up on the deck of the cabin, and proceeded to stick her head through the screen of the screen door, so she ended up inside with me. Silly dog.

..Day Two..

The next day it was foggy and beautiful.
Here's the cabin (keep in mind the whole thing is about the size of a big living room):



Here's my 'puppy':