Barn Charm Tuesday

A little barn in Rescue, Va...Isle of Wight County

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Monday Mural

This weekend we took off on a spur-of-the-moment beach trip. This mural was taken inside of Harpoon Larry's Oyster Bar in Hampton, Va. Totally recommend this awesome little place. Nick and I split the "Killer Combo" which had plenty o' GREAT food: 4 oysters, 4 clams, 4 crawfish, 6 mussels, 1/4 lb shrimp and 1/2 lb snow crab legs...yum! We ate at a couple of other seafood restaurants but this one was the best in our opinion in both ambiance and meal! Fun, FUN place. We also had an oyster shooter which was surprisingly yummo and I absolutely LOVED the way they served my bottle of beer in a brown paper bag, very cool!


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Rural Thursday Blog Hop #27

In yesterday's post I was telling you about our visit to the Historic Sandusky House . The name has nothing to do with the evil Sandusky which first comes to mind. Charles Johnson built his Sandusky home in 1808 and named it "Sandusky" taken from the site of his Indian adventures in Sandusky, Ohio. You can read about that here if you'd like.

When we arrived at Sandusky, we had picked up some tacos from Taco Bell for lunch and pulled the tailgate down and ate in the back of the truck as we had some time to kill before the tour started. I walked around the grounds after lunch and came across this gorgeous tree with the rope swing. Behind me, from where I took the picture, sits an old farmhouse and I imagined a child that lived there plays on this rope, thinking nothing of it, but liked the summertime image I got from it.

During our tour, which was given by Major Hutter's (the Hutter family owned the house for 5 generations after the Johnsons, including during the Civil War) Great Great Grand Daughter, a woman chimed in and asked "why is there a noose on your property?" very accusing like and the woman giving the tour had no idea what she was talking about. I asked her "Do you mean the rope swing out back?" and she said "Yes, it's a noose. It has a noose at the bottom of it and needs to be removed". I told her that I thought it to be a child's rope swing and she wouldn't have any of that and insisted it was a noose and needed to go. The woman giving the tour was quite upset about being told she had a noose hanging from the tree. After the rude woman left, before our tour was over, I told her I had seen it before we started the tour and it wasn't a noose at all, that it was just a simple rope swing hanging from the tree. And wouldn't you know, when my boys saw it, they immediately jumped on that rope and started swinging, just like it was meant for!

That little brick building is the "privy" or "outhouse". I didn't get any pictures of Sandusky as it's undergoing some restoration and there was a lot of ugly scaffolding around it so I didn't bother with pictures. I'll get some another time!


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Black & White Wednesday

On Saturday afternoon we drove over to Lynchburg to visit the Historic Sandusky House. There was a guest speaker, Ms. Iceman. Ms. Iceman portrayed Mrs. Buggoughs who lived on a tobacco plantation down the road in Franklin County, which is now the Booker T. Washington National Park. Mrs. Burroughs told us the story of Hunter's Raid in Lynchburg and of the role the Sandusky house had in it. After listening to Mrs. Burroughs wonderful story telling, we were then able to tour the house, with an actual Hutter descendant!

Ms. Iceman researches, writes and performs historic programs for Booker T. Washington National Monument in Hardy, VA.

Barn Charm Tuesday

Today's barn comes all the way from West Virginia. I didn't actually take this photo, a relative of this barn sent it to us. We were at the Salem Red Sox game on Friday night and there was this nice little family sitting behind us. They were on vacation from West Virginia and had stopped over to take their little boy to the Red Sox game before heading back home. Well, as we were chatting with this couple, for some reason the subject of barns came up and Misti was telling us about her Uncle's barn which sits on the property adjoining theirs. She said that after 9/11, her cousin, if I remember correctly, painted a big US Flag on the top of the barn and it was even featured on the cover of Country Living magazine! Nick asked her if she would send a picture to me so I could use it for my blog and she had one on her phone and sent it right to my husband's phone! I just sent her a message on Facebook to let her know I'm using it today. I did do a little Google search and found this on it, which also has a good picture of the flag on the barn. Pretty cool huh?!

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Monday Mural

The first half of last week's mural. Lynchburg, Va

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Friday Fences

This is on Glebe Road in Daleville. I use this little road as a short cut to get to Food Lion. I love the simpleness of this fence, these are really one of my favorite styles. Right next to this fence is a fancy fence made of brick and iron. Someone took a lot of time and money last year to put that up and to me it looks so out of place sitting next to this plain but perfect little fence. I obviously prefer this one to it's hoity toity neighbor next door!

That's a field of Queen Anne's Lace growing on the other side of the fence.

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