Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 168

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Fiery sunset...

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Tan Yur Can...Bedford

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Bike parking @ Duke University . Durham . NC

4)
Wilson Hughes Gallery . Roanoke

5)
The Color Purple . Explore Park . Roanoke

Linking up with Tom's Willy Nilly and:
Weekend Reflections
Skywatch Friday
Floral Friday

Have a great weekend :)

Northside Supply

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Northside Supply . 5316 Peaks Road . Bedford

It's almost like going back in time isn't it?!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Black & White Wednesday

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1502 Longwood Ave . Bedford

One of the old originals with no eat in area inside and only serving ice cream, like they are meant to do! Saw some whiny reviews on Yelp that they don't serve burgers or hot dogs at this location...that little fact makes a winner in my book...seems so many places just keep adding to their menus and forget what made them successful in the first place.

Reminds me of a summer when I was a kid. We went to Staples, MN where my mom's favorite Aunt and Uncle lived, Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Bill...my mom spent a lot of time when she was a kid at their house...every night after dinner, we'd sit out in the front yard and then we'd all walk down to the Dairy Queen, it was my Uncle Bill's thing, every night...of course I never complained :) That was in the 70's and probably looked much like this one, although I don't really remember much about it now!

Old Yellow

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Bedford

These doors take you back in time, to 1908...I showed you the original post last year right HERE and sadly I have not been back to check this out since last January...not that it's far away, just haven't done it...It is definitely on my "to-do" list! Probably not today, our temps won't be above freezing...we haven't been above freezing in probably a week, crazy for here! Tom, you are probably laughing about that but it's cold! Linking up with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Walkway

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Bedford

Monday afternoon I had to take Dalton to the Ortho doc to have him evaluate the break in his thumb. While looking at it he said that he might want to do surgery and put a couple of pins in it depending on the degree of the break so he took us in for xrays...today I am thankful that the break was "borderline" on his degree scale so we got out of there with just a cast! I am pretty sure if Dalton participated in Thankful Thursday he'd be thankful for the same thing! We go back in 3 weeks to see how it looks...hopefully I can update that week's Thankful Thursday with "his thumb is all healed up and the cast was removed"! Poor kid is getting bored having to sit out of sports.

Linking with Michelle's Thankful Thursday

Off topic: Do you like to fish or know someone who does? My oldest son Christian and his best friend (both are avid fishermen) have started their own mail order fishing lure business. Aaron hand makes the lures and Christian is on the business end of it. Check out their website: Shrews Customs

A Bench And Boxwoods

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Avenel Plantation
Found this interesting blog post about Avenel HERE
See yesterday's post for more on Avenel...

Linking with Wordless Wednesday

Avenel Plantation

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Bedford . Built 1838

What it looked like a very long time ago...

A little history:
"Union troops stopped here twice during Hunters Raid, and Confederate forces paused here as well as they pursued the enemy
out of the area.The Bedford County Militia Company, Old Dominion Rifles, drilled on the property in 1861; the company’s captain was Dr.Thomas M. Bowyer,the husband of Catherine Burwell, whose family owned the plantation. The unit became a
light artillery battery in action under Gen.Thomas J.“Stonewall” Jackson at Cedar Mountain and Antietam. Bowyer later treated and protected Union Col.William Powell after he was captured by Confederate troops; Powell, released in 1864 and
riding with Gen.David Hunter, returned the favor by protecting Avenel during Hunters Raid, leaving
the home untouched." Copied from News Advance

Now the home is owned and operated by the Avenel Foundation and can be rented for weddings and events...see their website HERE

Avenel is rumored to be haunted by a lady in white (of course..aren't all ghost ladies wearing white?!)...she is thought to be Mary Francis "Fran" Burwell...legend has it that she stayed on the front porch waiting for her husband to return home from the Civil War but he never did...what a sad story :(

Linking up with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Who's getting hit with this big snow storm? Yesterday our weather people had everyone worked up over the amounts of snow we would be getting...another one misses us...we got a dusting here and there and rain, blah...now it's just cold and rainy...schools were closed though so I've got happy kids!...until we have to make it up, boo!

Brothers

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Bedford

During the week I take the boys to school early for weight lifting and on Wednesday they practice running routes for football. Well yesterday I get a call not too long after dropping them off. It's Dalton, "Mom don't worry but I think I dislocated or broke my thumb." I tell him to go to the nurse and let her look at it thinking he probably just jammed it. Another call a few minutes later that she wants him to go to the dr's. So I drive on over and pick him up and we head over to Express Family Care. They take x-rays and sure enough, it's broken. They set it in a temporary cast and now we wait for ortho to call for a sturdier cast. The Dr. was able to set it pretty straight and showed us another x-ray that looked so much better than when we came in!

Today I am thankful that it was nothing more serious and this is the first broken bone any of my kids have had! I am also thankful that the Dr. who was working there yesterday was also an ER Dr. and was pretty experienced in these types of things! Also thankful for the nice day (even if half of it was spent at the Dr's and the reason behind that) spent with Dalton. It's not often I get one on one time with any of them so I take it when I can get it! We ran over to Subway and picked up lunch afterwards then rented Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children which was pretty good!

Linking with Michelle's Thankful Thursday

Long Legged Rooster

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Bedford

Linking with Wordless Wednesday

Bricks, Shadows & Cool Architecture

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Bedford

This was taken in January...Now the trees are probably all blooming. What a pretty house!

“Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

I'm linking up with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Clock Tower

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Bedford
The clock tower in the background is on the Bedford Courthouse and the little building in front is part of the Bedford Historical Slave Foundation.

Today I am thankful for a few days of spring like weather with temps near 70 and I have even seen some Forsythia in bloom this week! Today though the weather dips down to 38 with a wind advisory...30 degrees less than yesterday, ugh! Oh well, at least the weekend jumps back up into the 60's again! I can hear the wind whipping around as I type this! Linking up with Michelle's Thankful Thursday

Hardware Store

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Bedford

Linking with Wordless Wednesday

Mail Box

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Bedford Historical Slave Foundation . Bedford

Walking around Bedford a couple of weeks ago we walked past the Historical Slave Foundation which I've shown you HERE before...I walked up to the door to see if there had been any progress when I noticed this neat old mail box :)

Linking with Tuesday's Treasures

I know I was supposed to show more on the old school but haven't had a chance to look it up yet so maybe next week!

Red, White & Blue

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Bedford

This pretty house is just right around the corner from the Avenel House. I love the Betsy Ross Flag...Linking with Mersad's Through My Lens

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 117

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Heading out to dinner last night (missing Nick who was downstairs getting ready and Christian who had to work :( )

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This happened this week...I think on Tuesday because it was super windy...strong, STRONG winds...Thankfully the elderly neighbor that lives behind us came up and told me "a tree fell on your fence and squashed it so your dogs can walk right out"...I went and checked and sure enough, they could have walked right out if they wanted...thank goodness they didn't and I'm so thankful that man came and told me because I never go down into that part of the yard so who knows when I would have noticed...
I called Nick and he came home and cut the tree up and him and the boys blocked it with a piece of plywood for now until we can fix it this weekend...until then the dogs have to be supervised outside because I don't know how sturdy that is!

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While down there I noticed a couple of more trees that fell but didn't do anymore damage to the fence...this one was kind of small...

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This one kind of split in a weird way but I think it was mostly held together by vines anyway...

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A random picture of Bedford...we had just parked the car and gotten out and a bunch of birds flew right over there in the corner...what kind of birds are those that fly in groups of a million?...anyways I just kind of like the gritty look of this area and thought it should be a black and white...so I did just that ;)

I apologize for running late but I hope you will still play along! Post 5 randoms, link back and visit others!! Have a great weekend!


I'm linking with Photo Friday and Good Fences

I'm running behind on my visits but will make it to you eventually!

CDP Theme Day - Loving Life

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While the boys and I were walking around Bedford on Sunday we found this cute little pig behind the Bower Center For The Arts ...he sure looks like he's "Loving Life" doesn't he?!
To see other contributions from all over the world visit City Daily Photo :)

Old Yellow

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Longwood Avenue . Bedford

This school was built in 1908 and closed more than 20 years ago from what I've read...it is called "Big Yellow" and sits next to the Bedford Middle School which is being used now:

This one was built in the 1930's and I read that they will continue to use it through the 2017-2018 school year and then will move to a new school. I know the students are probably excited to get a new school but I would prefer one of these 2!

I have a lot more pictures of Big Yellow and I also want to do a little more research on it so I will show all that next week...I can't focus tonight, the dogs are going crazy barking at something and if they aren't barking, someone comes in to ask me a million questions...sooo...signing out for the night!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Train Cars

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Bedford

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Linking with Mersad's Through My Lens

Happy Monday :)

Bedford Historical Slave Foundation

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212 Court Street . Bedford . VA
Old AME Church . 1904

Back in November I was driving around Bedford and noticed this...so interesting and I am anxious to learn more about it!
Here's some of what I found from their press release:
BACKGROUND
The foundation’s investigation into slave-era Bedford County was triggered by the recent
discovery of a 19th –century gravesite on Rt. 460 in the Town of Bedford. The site contains the
remains of more than 20 individuals who were presumably enslaved on Lowry plantations.
Enslaved African-Americans (about 11,000) made up 44% percent of the Bedford County
population in the mid 1860’s. Genealogical and advanced DNA research has already been
initiated on dozens of families whose names are associated with slave records from 1850 -
1870 . The Foundation intends to document each identified family’s history in the county .

The Foundation will be housed at a former AME (African Methodist Episcopal) church that was
donated by the Lynchburg District United Methodist Church. The church, located next to the
County Court House at 212 Court St. Bedford VA. was founded around 1887. The current
structure was erected circa 1904. The structure will be renovated and will house a state-of-theart
computer system as well as , archival materials including family stories in high-definition
images, videos, family trees and related documents. Educational classes will be made available
to the County School system.

CLICK HERE for their website and HERE for their Facebook Page

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

Piedmont Label Company

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Bedford
The Piedmont Label Co started up in 1919 and is STILL printing labels!
Found an interesting story HERE on Piedmont and the history of canning and labels.
The sun was relentless on this day...not matter what I was trying to get a picture of, there was that blinding sun right in the way!

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Linking with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures