Flippin Jail

Flippin is a small town that has a super wal-mart, (capitalization omitted intentionally because I feel that box stores don’t deserve the respect that mom and pop places do) so we ventured out to make a supply run and came across this vintage jail next to an old house.

The interesting thing is inside there was a cot, a chamber pot on the floor, a small fire place, and a table with a Bible on it.  They also had a mannequin dressed up like an old gold prospector next to the table.  Very cool but I’d hate to be a prison there in any season.

Exploring the back 40

The road to the trailer is actually an old logger road which branches off to get to the easement for the power company.  We figured this would be a good time to teach Echo how to drive and when you think about it, what better place to learn. 

What could happen? There’s no cars or people he could crash into there’s only trees he could hit or cliffs he could drive off.

All and all he did very well.

The back side of the property is pretty cool and will warrant more exploration. 

Echo driving out of the bush.

Random shots

We meet a nice man at Crooked Creek who had a hobby of restoring old cars and this was his lasted project.

Something tells me this isn’t his luckiest day.

Bar-b-que spare ribs and crawdads

We brought our fire ring from back home in anticipation of having a bar-b-que over an open flame.  We stopped at Harps and picked up some spare ribs and bar-b-que sauce and planned a hardy lunch.

Since we arrived in Arkansas the kids had wanted to enjoy the taste of some down home crawdads not realizing that you want some that are of pretty good size and they should be prepared in a Cajun fashion.

The first time Josiah show some in the spring pool he quickly ate one raw … pretty disgusting, huh?

Well when we made the fire we didn’t think about the fact that cut grass in blazing sun makes for a really good recipe for a forest fire so we had to run to the spring and get 6 or 8 buckets of water to soak the ground around the pit to avoid the headline; “City fools burn down county.”

Well the last bucket had some crawdads swimming around so Echo thought it would be better to cook them before eating them.

 

The outcome – crunchy!

Family Photo

Our seasonal family photo for the summer of 2011

Out-take

Waiting in the shade ...

After all this time we finally had the opportunity to snap some photos of Girlie for our Blog header.  The woods made a fine backdrop for the photo and after taking about 30 photos this one stood out the most.

That's my girl.

I'll always love my Mama!

Happy Hank

The youngest and the oldest

Emerson and Echo

Oh, that look!

Shampoo-head Girlie

I'm goin' wash that road right out of my hair ...

Me and Josiah

Country Life

Where's Emerson?

There he is!

Girlie, always with a smile.

Echo working on the lanterns

Who would have thought that the Suburban would be part of our kitchen?

Chili for everyone!

Judith preparing breakfast

Enjoying a moment

Judith cooking lunch on the camping stove

Girlie helping out with the dishes

Emerson playing

Anyone see my toy?