Not to be out done, my sister Allison joins us

My sister Allison came down to NKY the week before my brother got married and joined us for a weekend in the Gorge. You are really starting to see that I love it down there right?

Well she loved it too. After I showed her our land down there she got bitten by the same bug and decided to jump into the pool. Yep, she bought a plot about 1000′ from ours! I think it’s great, ten years from now we will all be down there enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with plenty of room for everyone since between us we will have about 6 bedrooms!

She and her son Luke came on a few short hikes with us (he’s only 3 so he can’t hike far), and we stayed at the King’s Point cabin.

Linky to the photos

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Red River Gorge – Nov 2008

Will we ever get enough of the Red? I doubt it! Here are some photos that I took on section “I” of the Rough Trail and Whittleton Arch.

Note the one of Alsatia counting the tree rings to see how old the tree was before it fell across the trail. My budding environmentalist!

Linky to the full Slideshow…

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Jack’s Lament

Halloween was a great one this year. I pulled out all the tombstones from last year and I made another one with a gargoyle on it. But the best part was this tree limb that I found.

Back in September we had this crazy windstorm, we got hit with 80 mph winds for about 8 hours, aparrently it was a leftover from Hurricane Ike (can you believe that?). Well after the storm i saw thing gnarly tree limb that had been blown off a humongous birch tree sitting on the side of the road. And I immediately knew what to do with it.

I recruited my father-in-law to help me hoist it up onto the top of his truck and them after I got it home I stipped off all the leaves and small twigs then stained it black. I put it out in our front yard and got it to stand up by running a piece of rebar through it an into the ground. I then tied some skeletons and bats and those blinking “Creepy eyes” on it. Wicked!

Then of course I had to dress up, and who else could I be in my Halloweentown? None other than Jack Skellington of course!

I’m a master of fright, and a demon of light
And I’ll scare you right out of your pants
To a guy in Kentucky, I’m Mister Unlucky
And I’m known throughout England and France

And since I am dead, I can take off my head
To recite Shakespearean quotations
No animal nor man can scream like I can
With the fury of my recitations

† Excerpt: Jack’s Lament from Tim Burton’s fantastic animated movie The Nightmare Before Christmas

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