Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maryland. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Best Habitation Happy Memorial Day! Together With A Winner!

I promise each of yous had a swell vacation weekend!

I'd similar to honor in addition to salute the swell armed forces men in addition to women who accept died for this country!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 trip to the beach was for me in addition to my solid unit of measurement the perfect agency to boot off this unofficial outset of summer!

The weather condition was perfect! The H2O yet a flake mutual frigidity for my liking!

But nosotros had tons of fun!


Our destination, Ocean City, MD
Just a twain hours from home!

We enjoyed the twenty-four hr menses past times Sun bathing, boogie boarding, playing games in addition to tasting swell food!



As usual, the kids wanted my assistance edifice a sand castle!



Here yous tin run into our lovely fortress creation!


Lastly, nosotros finish off our twenty-four hr menses amongst a stroll on the boardwalk. 



Now I'm educate to comeback to my weekly routine at home!



Finally, the lucky winner for the Globe Giveaway is Number 39!! :)



Tracy Suzanne @ Cotton Pickin Cute



Thank yous everyone for your participation!


Best Dwelling Family Going For A Walk




Well, Summer has lastly arrived for our family! The kids are out of schoolhouse in addition to nosotros receive got began our outings but about the area!

Last weekend nosotros went for a elementary walk to the develop station, it's i of our favorite places to go! it's then closed nosotros tin order the axe become at that topographic point whatever time!  I withal retrieve going at that topographic point when our boy was but 3 years one-time to run across the "choo - choo train"! in addition to to hold off for the train so nosotros could hear the large whistle and wave good bye to the conductor!



Sometimes when its pretty quite but about my trouble solid I tin order the axe listen the roaring develop coming past times in addition to blowing its goodbye whistle! It makes me smile!


Getting into the tickets purpose is like going to another era!



All those picayune architectural details brand this identify then appealing to me!


Modern features has been added to it! But I dearest the one-time footing charm that it withal holds!


Across the street, i time a bank, this old building now holds the Germantown Historical Society.


This expanse was a concern center from 1873 to 1930, where the develop station was a large component of it.



The pair higher upward the develop tracks was of late transformed amongst a beautiful brick pathway!



Going dorsum domicile nosotros stared at this pretty storage shed sitting past times the route side....


...and to all the houses that i time were component of the concern center...


All the houses that but past times looking at them tin order the axe tell a story!


Like this beautiful sunny i amongst all its charming decor!


Up close, pretty in addition to colorful!


We kept walking along this i amongst all those non bad elevations!


or this i peeking through the trees!


Getting closer to my house/ I got to run across this i inwards a corner, tidier than it used to be!



But afterwards crossing the street nosotros cannot halt admiring the "big house", that's how we call it! The hubs loves it! He has changed it ohhh, then many times! in addition to non changes to what you lot run across here! No.  He has moved it dorsum to the middle of the property, because it's agency to closed to the street, he says! 

Deep downwardly within myself I'm glad is there, upward front! Where everyone tin order the axe receive got a practiced await at it!


That's a component of why nosotros dearest going on a walk through our neighborhood!




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Best Abode Visiting Glen Echo Park

Projects around the household accept been seat on hold. Vacation fourth dimension is inward amount swing. ;)
Visitors arrived in addition to my outings are on the rise.

With 3 kids inward tow, I headed to Glen Echo Park. It never disappoints my kids, likewise is a brusque ride from home. 

What my kids ever hold back for is riding the 1921 Dentzel Carousel with 38 horses, four ostriches, four rabbits, two chariots, a giraffe, a lion, a deer, in addition to a tiger. 
Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park


This is a vintage carousel made past times ane of America's most prominent carousel makers, the Dentzel carousel company,  and the solely ane of its historic menses in addition to character remaining inward its master copy location.
Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park


It is genuinely a run of art!
Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park



Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park



Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park



The ring organ sets the tunes for the carousel.
Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park




Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park


Also known equally the Glen Eco Amusement Park, which operated until the belatedly 1960's.  The bumper machine pavilion is directly used equally a trip the lite fantastic toe hall.
Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park
For to a greater extent than data nearly the common you lot tin see their spider web site HERE.





Projects around the household accept been seat on gibe BEST HOME Visiting Glen Echo Park




Best Habitation Let's Become To The Farm!


Hey! It's October, the weather condition is fabulous, perfect fourth dimension to visit the farm!

So, sit down down, catch a loving cup of coffee or meliorate soundless a loving cup of apple tree cider as well as I'll accept you to the amazing things going on at Butler's Orchad farm.

It will be a brusk drive, but every bit shortly every bit we see this sign, the fun begins!



Big roads are left behind, we choke along our trip through woman nurture nature's violet tunnels!



Tall trees flank each side of the winding road, until we reach our destination.






As shortly every bit nosotros encounter this former weathered shed, nosotros know nosotros conduct keep arrived.




On the left, we can admire this beautiful log house, dwelling of the Butler's family.



This would last their backyard, the log solid is to the right, but inward reality their backyard is but nearly 300 acres!



Continuing upwards the route a few feet away from the log house we'll find the Farm Market.  It used to be a niggling cerise barn, but in 1993 it was expanded, and this novel modern edifice was as well as then created.



Once inside, the most charming seasonal displays volition larn anyone's attention.  Don't y'all but love the beautiful display cabinet?

amongst all those niggling details all around?



Decorative pumpkins, owls, spiders, cats, carrots, y'all holler it, tin last institute here!


Going around, another wonderful slice of slice of furniture takes my breath away!

Isn't it amazing?!


Looking for some inspiration to decorate your dwelling for Fall or Halloween? What meliorate identify than the Farm!


You'll larn ideas for bookcases, mantels, forepart doors, as well as outdoors.



Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 couple of these guys would await lovely exterior your forepart door!


But non everything is nearly decorating inward hither (only that my eyes cannot stop gravitating to that area), on the other side we can honour all that yummyness! Jams/jellies, preserves, salad dressings, gourmet condiments, local honey, maple syrups, apple tree as well as pumpkin butters, baked goods, dairy products,


as well as of course, farm fresh seasonal produce.



Buuut think it's October, we must last looking for some pumpkins! Yes! I'm therefore happy y'all came to the identify where the difficult determination is which form of pumpkin y'all desire to get!  So many varieties!



For that, let's become exterior again, crusade they conduct keep their ain infinite outdoors as well as if we cannot honour the perfect i to a greater extent than or less hither or on that dainty wagon, we tin become as well as pick our ain from the field!



so, let's become there!


But wait! Not before putting some of these colorful mums apart, inward case we forget!



While a brusk drive to the pumpkin patch we tin taste looking at all those colorful signs,




or maybe attempt to follow the long rows of crops that fill upwards the landscape.



Until nosotros attain our destination!



the pumpkins!







After picking some of them we become back, non without looking at all the beauty that environment us!  Aproaching the cornfield,



former memories come upwards alive, similar my kids as well as their friends running throughout the maze


trying to last the kickoff ones to honour the agency to its center!



Or the times nosotros traveled these same roads on a hay wagon ride amongst our niggling ones yesteryear the side.



There conduct keep been lots of memories created hither at the farm,




as well as this calendar month I promise to exercise some more!



Have a Berry skillful day! :)



as well as please, this October, accept i of those niggling roads to see as well as back upwards our farms.

This is NOT an advertising post, I haven't been compensated at all for my views or opinions on this post.

Butler's Orchard Farm is closed to my home, a beautiful identify to become twelvemonth round.  You tin see their spider web site at www.butlersorchard.com where you'll honour dates for exceptional events similar the Fall Festival, hours of operation, directions and all the things going on at their farm.