After a rainy Thursday and Friday, we have had a beautiful weekend. We went to the Shelby Farmers Market yesterday, which was small but nice. It had more local meat options than produce and also some baked goods. Later in the day, Bob and I took Cooper to a local elementary school for a walkabout around the school and into a beautiful neighborhood. Bob took advantage of the dry conditions to mow the yard, which had really taken off with all of the rain.
This was one side of the rock at the elementary school
that we walked at yesterday.
Today, I ran a 20 mile run here in preparation for my marathon in May and our homeowner ran a half marathon in Paris where she is visiting on a break from her English tutoring in Italy.
We then headed to the Bellwood Heritage Museum for a visit. (Still working our way through the travel brochure we picked up.) This museum is only open from 2:00 to 4:00 on the first Sunday of the month, March through October. The museum is a collection of local donations from the community to provide some local history. It contains mostly old farm equipment and household goods/appliances.
Remember having to actually get up and change a channel?
especially as it’s Girl Scout cookie time.
The farm section was full of lots of old equipment these two city-raised individuals had no idea about. The older gentleman at the museum had to explain most of the items to us.
There is a handle that you’d turn
so that the dirt would come out of the openings. It did not shuck the peanuts.
Not even sure we realized that potatoes are grown from other potatoes.
but apparently they call them Cooters or Mud Cooters in this area.
They are turtles that only live in the water
and are caught to be fried and then eaten.
Peckish Travels 