havin fun and lovin it!!

Ok...so it's been a while since I've had the opportunity to go visit places of abandonment and have recently discovered that my sister shares my love of everything old and breaking and entering- two things that are so dear to my heart!
We began our adventure on Friday by visiting a late 1880's house in Clemmons...she knows the history of the house, I just know it was super cool on the inside and I had been dying to see the inside for quite some time. Can you say fabulous?
After we took our "self guided tour" of said house, we continued on to the "green house" that I begged my husband to stop at on Thanksgiving but he said something about family and the importance of visiting them on Thanksgiving...Yeah, whatever...anyway, with nothing but time on our hands my sis and I stopped by with her two very curious little boys who really added to the excitement of the adventure. We parked at the house and explored the outside before nearing the back entrance. Being the cautious type I am I gingerly stepped onto the porch...ok, I just plain planted a heavy foot on the porch and promptly fell through. Not one of my finer moments. Julie was kind enough not to laugh until she knew nothing was broken. thanks for that. We toured that house and found a few interesting things including a Kingston Trio record that Matt had to have. Lol...the boy has taste. -ish.
Next on the the Blair Witch House which was a wonderful two room wood house with no doors or windows and a second floor attic...it was spooky and beautiful in its aged condition and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Fabulous place for pics- but I didn't have my camera for this impromptu trip.

Today Julie and I had an errand to run and of course we were side tracked by other things...we took a little visit to the Lawson gravesite which she had never seen. For those of you not in the know, ole Charlie took it upon himself to off his whole family christmas day 1929...they are all buried in a mass grave off Brook Cove Rd...very cool gravesite and she had never seen it. Next on to the site of what was once the Piedmont Springs Hotel...a hot spot in the late 1800-early 1900 until it burned for the 3rd time and was not rebuilt. It was a beautiful hotel in its prime with guests like the Reynolds family who would take to the mountains in the summer for the cool mountain springs. We tromped about the kudzu covered property and found a few pieces of dishware...it is a place near and dear to my heart...Dirt covered, we stopped at a gas station whereupon J skipped over the edge of the parking lot and got the truck momentarily "stuck" until the  good ole boy told us which way to go to get back on the lot. We went inside to wash up and the deliverance brothers were very very very friendly and curious about where we were from and what we were doing in them parts. and made quite a few comments about J's driving...which I thought was just fine. I found myself saying a lot of things like "that dog won't hunt" and "up the road a piece" which seemed appropriate for the area. Now that I'm back in civilization I cannot believe those words passed from my lips.

We ended our day with a visit to grandma Fulp's barn to get an old door that my husband said I could have and Julie was like an enthusiastic puppy running around exploring the property. It was so fun to watch her excitement...I got my door---I hope its ok---its been in the barn for years and years laying in the dirt...interesting how I have no problem "rescuing" things from people I don't know but I feel a little bad about an amazing old door I wanted from my husband's grandmother's barn. I took it home and washed it and windexed the windows and polished with with furniture polish and am sitting admiring it right now...not sure what I"ll do with it but thats neither here nor there...its the joy of the door that I'm relishing.

And that ends the weekend's adventure...I got to introduce my sis to a couple places she's heard of but never been and I got the pleasure of her  company---which by the way, she is an amazing gal...and as for Thanksgiving and the family, we did make it there and a wonderful time was had. As for my husband, he is a law abiding man who puts up with me but will not be a party to my escapades...which is a good thing as I may one day need him for bail money!