Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 74

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Some random pics for the week!

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This barn was just a tiny bit down the road from yesterday's "Big Ass" sign

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I loved this old place but wasn't sure if someone lived there or not so I quickly snapped a photo from inside our vehicle while pulling into the very small and obvious driveway. Hence the glare in the corner...oops!

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I think this place has been built in stages...near the Jaycee Day Camp in Blue Ridge

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Quite a few opinionated people in these parts (see yesterday's post)

5)

The Botetourt Champions: The Blue Ridge Wolverines! On Sunday the boys finished the season by winning their championship game. #1 in the league, only losing 1 game...great season!

Now it's your turn! Post 5 randoms, link up and visit others!! Have a great weekend!



I'm linking up with Cath's Fun Friday Favourites!

The Barn Collective #7

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This pretty little farm sits behind THIS CHURCH ...Linking with Miss Amy's Barn Collective

Almost done with my Christmas shopping. Nervous I'm forgetting stuff!

Rubbish Tuesday & The Barn Collective - Another Great View Along Wheatland Road

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I am 99.9% sure that this is the view on the other side of the church...next to Ferdinand...for those not keeping up (I forgive you) go look at last week's stuff if you are a person who needs to be in the loop like me...anywho...I am loving this edit...it's ok to say that right? I mean it was Ribbet's work, I just clicked "True Vintage" and it worked its magic...AND this is pretty cool...Ribbet.com has their premium stuff for free right now, plus unlike PicMonkey, (who also has a free premium upgrade right now) does not make you enter your cc info...I hate when sites give you a trial but only if you enter payment info (their little trick to get a month out of you)....soooo, have some fun!

Linking with Rubbish Tuesday (for those of us who love cool old stuff) and The Barn Collective for those who love barns :) I happen to be a fan of both!

InSPIREd Sunday - A Church In Fincastle

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Do you ever take a picture, think you remember the name or where it is or think you captured a photo of the name, only to get home, get ready to post, then..."wah-wah" ...no name, no recollection, nada...nothing...zilch...that's what happend here. Location, Fincastle, up to the tippy top of Main Street. When you have the option to turn left for CAMS (Central Academy Middle School) which I normally do...you go straight. So now I'm calling on my friend, Botetourt County expert Anita of Blue Country Magic. No pressure Anita! :) Linking with InSPIREd Sunday

A Rural Sun Flare

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Somewhere in Botetourt County....(it appears I'm addicted to sun-flares this week!)

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

I want to host a Give-A-Way on Friday for a Willy-Nilly Friday celebration! Post 5 randoms on your blog, link up, comment, follow, you're entered! I'll show you what you are able to win on Thursday!

Random 5 Friday - Bierer's Deli

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Bierer's Deli, Buchanan

I like those windows that run across the top above the awnings.

Random 5:

1) We moved here to Botetourt County in 2008. Just like all our previous moves, schools were always our first concern when researching an area. We loved Botetourt for their school ratings and the fact that it was a little rural, not too far out, but not in the city of Roanoke. We still absolutely love it here. I found this video clip featuring Botetourt so you can see why we love where we live! Let me know if you recognize anything in the video!



2) We went to watch our minor league Red Sox play last night. That's always a good time!

3) I worked on some genealogy yesterday and found out that a great grandfather of mine was a Hessian Soldier. His name was Jean Baptiste Schneider. More research to do!

4) Tonight starts the 3 day Civil War reenactment in Buchanan. Yep, we're going!

5) Another blogger, I can't remember who so I apologize if it was YOU and I am not giving you proper credit but anyways, mentioned this show on their blog and I've gotten a bit hooked! It is called The Returned. It is in French but has subtitles. It's on Netflix. Here's a trailer:



Have a great weekend! Be safe!

Our World Tuesday - The Abandoned Project II

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Along Route 11. Botetourt County

What do you think this used to be? A store? A Garage?

Linking with Our World Tuesday

One more view:

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There's a new linky! Rubbish Tuesday, so of course I'm linking because I join everything lol....visit more rubbish HERE

Ruby Tuesday - More From the Flying Mouse

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...continued from yesterday...
Here we are getting an in-depth tour on the fine art of beer making by the Brewmaster himself, Frank Moeller. My husband had about a gazillion questions and he patiently answered each one, in great detail! Very nice people at the Flying Mouse.

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Collage:
1) Look how cool the outside area is...with a fire pit! Sit outside and listen to live music...which we plan on doing Saturday!
2) Kegs waiting to be filled
3) Some cute redheads at the bar ;) Yes, the Mouse is family friendly!

And....

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For more on The Flying Mouse Brewery, visit their ultra cool website HERE
Linking with Ruby Tuesday Too and Our World Tuesday

Monday Mural - Bartleby Hopsworth

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FLYING MOUSE BREWERY
221 Precast Way
Troutville

We have a new brewery in Botetourt! The Flying Mouse. This is Chris and his sidekick Bartleby Hopsworth. Chris is one of the 5 partners @ Flying Mouse and the creative genius behind Bartleby, the "determined" little mascot. You can see his artwork all around the brewery and although this isn't a mural per se, I think it would be awesome to see a big Bartleby Hopsworth mural out front welcoming guests. Maybe in the future?!

We stopped in yesterday afternoon and had a beer and a look around. 3 of the 5 partners were there and so nice to give us a tour and tell us all about their vision for the brewery and all the hard work and sacrifice it took to get here.

The Flying Mouse is opened on Friday/Sat/Sun with live music and food trucks on Saturday afternoon/evening.

Tomorrow I'll show you a little more :)

For more info on the brewery and Bartleby the flying mouse, visit their website HERE

Linking with Monday Mural

Random 5 Friday - Somewhere in Botetourt

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This was back in September, Labor Day weekend, what we Americans call the last weekend of summer. We had been to the creek so Ozzy could swim. Came home and had a crab boil. We do that every Labor Day weekend it seems! I guess it's become tradition. No, I didn't remember all that from this photo, but from the ones before it and after in my archives!

Randoms:

1) Yesterday morning, while letting my car warm up, I ran out of gas in my drive-way...

2) My car has been making a strange noise for a few days, so I thought that was the reason my car stalled. I called Nick and told him the car broke down in the drive-way. He left work to come help me out. Wanted to see if the car would start, it wouldn't and my gas light was on. He says "Tanya, could you be out of gas?" Me "Mmmmm, maybe?" In my defense, my gas light never came on the last time I drove it and my drive-way slopes down. So anytime I have a quarter tank, it shows empty. I guess it ran out while warming up...ruh-roh...

3) So, Nick took me to the gas station around the corner so we could fill the gas can up. While there, 4 or 5 police cars came speeding in with their lights on, parking their cars to block the entrances and exits and pulled out their guns....turns out Mama D accidentally tripped the alarm that signals she's being robbed. Talk about exciting!

4) So, the noise my car was making is a bad belt. I have to get that fixed today...at least it wasn't anything major, a tank of gas and a belt.

5) Someone turned the heat off last night..when I crawled out of my warm bed I began to freeze...hurried down the hall to check the thermostat and it was only 56 in here. Brrrrr!

Have a great weekend!



Join in, it's fun! Random 5 Friday

ABC Wednesday - School is CLOSED

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3:30 p.m. We weren't supposed to see any snow from this storm. This was the big southern storm that was just going to bring snow to the south and east of us. It started to snow about the time I had to go pick Christian up from school and take to work....Here I am waiting in the school pick up line....little snowflakes are falling...

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8:30 p.m. Here I am picking Christian up from Kroger. What a scary drive. We only live about 10 minutes away but the roads were all covered in snow. I white knuckled it all the way there, driving very slow. Yes, I'm one of those drivers ;)

Got the text "Botetourt County Schools are CLOSED on Wednesday". Yay! That made a bunch of kids happy!

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8:30 a.m. this morning. I think we must have ended up with a couple of inches in the end! So much for forecasting the weather!

Linking with ABC Wednesday and check out some more pictures representing the letter C!