So, I don't get out of the house much anymore, but the other day the fall weather was so perfect that I couldn't resist. I love to walk around the farm, but I have trouble walking anymore and nature has reclaimed the farm so much that it's hard to get around it anyway. I do love the wildness of the fields too though.
Hubby revved up our old side by side, Old Yeller, and we took a short ride down to the big pond and around one field before coming back to the house. We stopped for a few minutes behind the old house and walked around a little on the flat rock road bed leading to the old well before continuing on to the pond.
We literally drove through brambles, briars, bushes and sage grass as tall as the side by side, tree limbs, and over rocks, ditches, and around sink holes, causing us to bounce, jerk, dodge, duck, and push though the jungle. We couldn't go around the pond, but at least we could see it. Beavers have cut and/or killed all the trees that used to line the edges, thus it's full of dead trees. They also dammed up the drain ditch. Not as pretty as it used to be, but it still has a beauty to it if you really look.
This was sort of our short road trip vacation for the year, I guess, but it does my soul so much good just to visit the old home place every time I do. I always take my camera, of course! Just wish the colors in the photos were as vibrant as they were in reality...
Hubby and me, in our seventies, enjoying a Sunday afternoon outing together! This was actually at the end of the ride. We are covered in dust, dead leaves, pollen, cattail and sage grass fuzz, twigs, bugs, and Lord knows what else! Came back itching and sneezing!
I thought we were going to turn over a couple of times, but here we are coming out safe and sound, with only a few scratches and some sore joints to remind us we ain't youngsters anymore! Plus, we had to take showers to get all the debris off us, but that's a small price to pay for some fun memories together. So thankful we are both still here, together, and able to enjoy another road trip through nature. It was good for our souls, as nature often is!
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