In Memorium-Cedar Covered Bridge

I don't post much about this here, so here I confess (one more fun fact about me)...

I love covered bridges!

We discovered them on our honeymoon to Indiana. They are a wonderful piece of history and nostalgia. We try to find out if there are any near where we may be traveling to. My collection of covered bridges keeps growing, and we have seen them in several states.

With that being said, I read that sadly the Cedar Covered Bridge in Madison County, Iowa (near Winterset) was burned by arsonists a couple of weeks ago, arrests have been made in this case. This saddens me that people have that little respect for a piece of nostalgia (or any other kind of property).

We had the pleasure of visiting the Bridges of Madison County in April, 2009. (By the way, that is a beautiful Iowa day trip) We saw (the second) Cedar Covered Bridge. Cedar was originally built in 1883, and moved to its present location in 1921. Arsonists burned the original Cedar in 2002, which was rebuilt and rededicated in 2004.

I will try to share more covered bridges we have visited as time goes on.

Have you visited any bridges? Where?

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Wordless Wednesday-Wishing I Was Here

November, 2007

WILW

Hello Wednesday! Please join Rachel and I for another week of What I'm Loving Wednesday.

*My Mr. and his crazy sense of humor - he makes me laugh at the silliest stuff

*Young Miss has been super sweet and funny the last couple of weeks

*Young Mr. has teased me relentlessly lately (I hate to admit it makes me laugh most of the time)

*Podcast listening. I have found a couple new to me ones that I am enjoying and will listen to older episodes soon

*The weather! Oh it has felt like spring (complete with itchy eyes) and the flowers are really popping out

*Open photo sessions that I am hoping to get some booked

*All my lovely blog readers and commenters (I love to hear from you!)

*Reading my fellow bloggers' posts. They have been fantastic!

*Emails catching up with friends I haven't heard from in a while

*This photo session's gallery uploaded and delivered. I hope they are as happy with it as I am!

*I met my weekly step goal last week

(and am on my way to meeting this week's)

*Dining is booked for our Disney trip this fall

*Armchair traveling with my social media friends-your photos/videos are fantastic

What are you loving this week?

Travel Tuesday/Post #1500

So here we are. My 1,500th blog post. Wow!

I struggled with what to post for this milestone. After much thought, I decided a "Travel Tuesday" works. So....here we are "traveling" to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

My Mr. planned a birthday weekend trip for me to visit the HOF last summer. It was all I imagined and then some. It was amazing to look at artifacts that players had worn/used.

Two weeks before we were headed to Cooperstown, they had a 4 foot snow. So, we were a little nervous headed out, BUT most of the snow was gone. It rained and snowed a couple of inches over the weekend but we didn't let it put a damper on things.

The view from our hotel room:

The views were pretty

The locker collections [for all the teams] are awesome!

 Kerry Wood's jersey:

 Yosh Kawano's hat:

 

 

I am not a Mark McGwire fan but there was a display of the home run battle between he & Sammy Sosa in 1998. It was very cool!

 

 

 

 Just hanging out with Benny...

 

This represents Ted Williams' batting averages in the different areas of the strike zone.

This alone made me giddy before I even walked into "the hall". And when I did, it took my breath away!

We literally had it all to ourselves which was wonderful!

Ready for the Class of 2017:

(signed here are: Jeff Bagwell; Ivan Rodriguez; and John Schuerholz)

[Bagwell had been there Tuesday & Wednesday before we got there and Tim Raines was there the Tuesday & Wednesday after we were there]

Some of the plaques:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite baseball guy!

 

This was a fun little display

 

 

After we got done with our tour of the Hall, we went out to the Cooperstown Bat Company factory and watched them turn bats. THAT was really cool! (sorry, no pictures of the actual turning)

 Turned bats waiting to be finished:

One more thing off my bucket list. Plus, it was nice to get away with my Mr. and go on a couple other adventures (I will post those next week).