0 SteveMule: January 2009

Monday, January 05, 2009

The Holidays are over!!! Let the Men Dance and the Women Sing!!!

Hi Everybody!
Well I finally got off my butt and got my Christmas presents put away and the desks moved around and living room cleaned up and ... a whole lot of other stuff done. I still have a lot of stuff to do, stuff that hasn't been done since I moved here; and has needed doing since I moved here but it's waited this long it can continue to wait. And wait it shall. In the meantime ...
I generally have found the holidays; Christmas and New Year's, to be a colossal pain the butt. However, this year was different. I was able to get together with family and have a really good time. I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. I had to work Christmas Day so my actual "Christmas" didn't happen until the following Sunday when I went up to Manhattan KS where my Mom lives for Christmas dinner, presents and all that. I rode up with my brother, Butch, and we had a great time on the trip.
We didn't go the most direct route which is Hwy156 to I-70 to Manhattan. Once we got to Ellsworth we turned and went down old Hwy40. I asked Butch to go this way because I wanted to see and stop at the the "Little House on the Prairie."

This is, believe it or not, a real, Gen-U-Wine, honest-to-God, homestead! I'm not sure when it was built but it was in the 1800's and settled under the Authority of the 1863 Homestead Act. When it was abandoned I have no idea. If you look close you can see a kitty cat in one of the windows. It was rather friendly, altho a passing car spooked it and it ran away. I'm afraid some one abandoned it there, which really upset me.

Here's another picture from a different angle. The kitty cat is the white blob in the window on the right. It came back but it wouldn't let me get close to it again.

Here's what driving down old Hwy40 looks like. It's real, uh, "Kansasy" looking which is why this is one of my favorite roads to travel. After leaving the "Little House on the Prairie" we traveled to Brookeville and there turned off of old Hwy40 and drove north to I-70 and from there zoomed to Manhattan and the family Christmas Celebrations.

Well, that's it for now, I'll have more later. I'm getting hungry and so I'm going to cook something and try to get some thing else on my to-do-list done, maybe one those things that have needed doing since I moved here. Maybe ...

Take Care, Be Good and Don't Play in the Street!

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