KoDaCHRoMe

Monday, September 8, 2014

A MaN & HiS DoG JiVe To MuSiC ToGeTHeR

I don't know who this guy is, but I think I'm in love.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

GRaNViLLe OHiO RoaD TRiP

Woke up to an eerie foggy morning and a

giant spider web outside our back door!

Had Ken stand in front of it so I could photograph it better

No way I was getting that close to it! Yikes!

Here's a close up of the giant bugaboo!!

And then we found ANOTHER giant spider web

in a different tree!

After escaping the spiders we took off for

Granville, Ohio!

Our First trip there. Gorgeous little town!!

Lots of great looking restaurants - we finally decided

on Moe's BBQ. Great BBQ and the

best baked beans I've ever had!

We had heard that Aladdin's had the best pie so

we stopped there after shopping but alas they

had closed at 2pm so no pie for us. :(

Beyond these doors lies "Green Velvet".

A beautiful shop!

The owner - Elizabeth Stutzman was so friendly and allowed

me to take photos! (Click on the photo of the green doors

to visit her website!)

130 East Broadway, Granville, OH 43023

Luxurious and very grand!

Best husband in the world sitting and waiting

patiently for me as I

darted in and out of shops.

Bright and lovely entrance way.

Awesome metal switch plates!

Stopped here for some good chocolates!

The Buxton Inn where you can spend

the night.

Beautiful landscaping everywhere

you look.

Reminds me of Charleston.

Old Colony Burying Grounds

The gates were locked but we found a

section of fence that was torn down so

I snuck in to check out the tombstones.

Hubby stayed behind in case I got arrested

so he could bale me out... At least that's

what he said. I personally think graveyards

scare him...

All of the tombstones I saw

were from the 1800's! Beautiful

headstones with very personal writings.

This one said "TO DIE IS GAIN"

Mary Ellen

Wife of George McDonald

Died July 20, 1852

Aged 21

Lucy M.

Dauther of Ziba & Harriet M.

Woods

Died March 13, 1837

Aged 16 Years

Erected to the Memory of Luther Woods

Who departed this life

July 23rd, 1852

In the 26th Year of his age.

Erected to the Memory of

Giles Harrington

Died Aug 3rd 1826

28 Years

This headstone reads:

"Here lieth the boddy of Lillie Jones

departed this life Oct. 22 A.D. 1802

Aged 28 Years 8 Mos & 18 days

Left her husband John Jones with

4 children - 2 girls & 2 boys

This is the first white family that

ever inhabited Granville TP.

Erected by the Granville Cambian

Society July 4, 1935"

This was the largest Oak Tree we

have ever seen.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

I noticed a flower pot of geraniums that had been on a bench in our backyard was on the ground broken and assumed it had been knocked over by a squirrel. At the same time there had been a large grey cat in our backyard off and on for about a week. We kept chasing her off figuring she was just trying to catch our wildlife. Like a bad penny she just kept coming back over and over. Sometimes she would come to the door and look through the glass and cry. As much as I dislike cats I was starting to feel sorry for her.

One day my husband mentioned she had been eating the bread we were throwing out for the squirrels. Then I saw her drinking water from a dish in the backyard. It slowly started dawning on me that just maybe she was a stray. What sealed the deal was when I saw her curled up between two boston ferns, right where the geranium pot had been. Then I knew for sure she was eating what she could from the squirrel food and sleeping at night on this bench. Apparently the pot had been in her way so she accidentally shoved it off.

As I said, I am not a cat person. At all. But here was this poor soul, starving and lonely. So we started petting her at night. Then we bought cat food and a dish for her. She was still not allowed in the house, but at least she wouldn't go hungry. I put the word out and a friend of mine said she would come up and get her. Elation! A new home for the cat and I could quit worrying about her at night!!

My friend came up and when we went to put her in the cat carrier she went BALLISTIC! Even though we had her on a leash she wiggled out of it and ran off. My friend looked at me and said the cat had issues and she was not going to take it after all.

Within 30 minutes Cat was at my back door looking in as if nothing at all had happened and wondering where dinner was. I fed her but told her she could forget any petting that evening. After all I had arranged a perfectly wonderful permanent home for her and she had acted like a crazy person. She didn't understand and just cried some more.

Within a few days another friend said she worked with an animal lover and he and his wife would come up to get her. I made sure they knew about her Houdini trick when we tried to put her in a carrier. They said "no problem" and arranged a day to come and get her.

These wonderful people came on a stormy night and laid a towel down and put Cat on it while they fed her treats and soothed her. When she was calm and unsuspecting they laid her down and before she knew it - rolled her up in the towel like a cat burrito! She had a look of "hey - what just happened here!?" but she was in the cat carrier before she knew it looking stunned. She cried a little but knew she had been hoodwinked and accepted it.

She went into the stormy dark of night to her new home. These people took her to the lady's sister who was newly divorced. Two lonely souls would now give each other comfort. She named Cat - ABBEY.