Road Trip

On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is being with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again.

      Where are we going?  Up the Ohio River without a paddle.

Well I, Sweet William The Scot, am going to tell you so hold your horses and don't get your britches in a wad! Mount Pleasant, Ohio.

You ask what is in Mt. Pleasant?  Mount Pleasant, Ohio is where Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States was born. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and effectively ended the Civil War with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox.

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The little home was lifted from its foundation and moved by boat to Cincinnati for public exhibition. From 1885 to 1896 the home was on the move across the state and the nation for expositions, state fairs, and other events. Between 1896 and 1936 it sat on the Ohio State Fairgrounds, sheltered in a limestone and glass pavilion. After 50 years on the road, in 1935, the Clermont County legislators and the Ohio Historical Society secured the passage of an act authorizing the Society to move the building back to its Point Pleasant original location. It was moved and dedicated in 1936.

Let me into this house!

Well I could not get in but, Flat George got the royal tour.

Boots at Flat George's feet were made by Ulysses Grant's father a tanner.

Everything in the home is original to the family and was there when Ulysses was born.

Look at all the campaign buttons from the wars General Grant gave his service.

Trunk Ulysses Grant took with him to West Point.  It was also made by his father, a tanner.  He packed light.

Jeeze Louise, I never got into the little frame home.

 Have a Happy, Safe, Beautiful 4th of July. 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot


Pssss ~ Flat George has been a little flat lately ~
Help Flat George get moving!!!!

Pssssssssssss ~ We have another new friend Pearl Adventures ~
Please go and say Hi, they would like to meet you!

Funky in My Town + My Zentangle

Something is FUNKY, ABERRANT, ABNORMAL, ANOMALOUS, BIZARRE, CAPRICIOUS ya think? 

I am eight miles from home and whose steps am I sitting on??
I feel something staring at me! There are multiple eyes looking and to whom do they belong?

  

The Mushroom House, also known as the Tree House, is an ornately fanciful home built by architect Terry Brown in the Oakley/Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.  It was built between 1992 and 2006 and served as the architect's secondary residence until his untimely death in 2008. Standing on the busy corner of Erie and Tarpis Ave, it is a prominent Cincinnati landmark..  The house remained in the family with his wife owning the property till now.  Rumor has it is up for sale for $349,000.  Five rooms, one bedroom, one bath, 1,260 square feet. Ya think you want to buy?

For inside pictures go here. It is something to see. REALLY YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ONE REALLY!!!!!!

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3331-Erie-Ave-Cincinnati-OH-45208/34208901_zpid/

Using more than 35 former students from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, where Mr. Brown was an adjunct assistant professor, they helped build circular steel steps, deck rails of wood shingles, stained glass windows, tiled ceilings. Using a variety of materials, wood, colored glass, shell, ceramics, and various metals.
 

I won this over at Reilly & Denny Cowspotdogblog.  Bree does the most wonderful work. Thank You Bree for my picture it is truly a work of art and love. 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Psssssssssss ~ We have new friends, they are  Prescott & Joules at Fear the Beards.  Please go and visit them.

The Real Deal

Well I tricked you in my last postie saying those were my flowers. Now I want to show you some of Lee's and my true flowers that are blooming now.

Our Hydrangea is beautiful. I hide in here and become a Will-o'-the-Wisp with supernatural powers to spy on my neighbors. I watch for forbidden, illegal, illicit actions.

Our Daylilies and Russian Purple Sage are at full bloom. I keep watch so the deer stay away. For the last three years the deer have eaten the Daylilies. Lee planted the Russian Purple Sage last year after being told it was a deer deterrent. Well the deer have left us alone this year. I think I, Sweet William The Scot, am the deterrent ya think?  Lee thinks it is the Sage that is keeping the deer away.

Now look at the flowers behind me. They say a tree grows in Brooklyn. Well a Prickly Pear Cactus grows in Cincinnati. Last year our low was -6 degrees, we had a mild winter. Yet our cactus grows and it is one of the largest in the area.

Kylascott out there in Arizona I challenge you to show me a cactus with more flowers. Over seven hundred blooms. Yes, I counted them myself last year.

Next time I will show you what I got from Reilly and Denny over at Cowspotblog.  And a big thanks to Basset Momma for giving us The Lovely Blog Award.  That is our to do list.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Pssssssss ~ It took us 57 hours to get our music back up.  The server we used was not nice and took our tune away.  We had to find another way to get our music back.  We did not want the music to die.

My Town

Look at the flowers I grow ~ white clematis, red tulips, yellow chrysanthemum.  My garden is so beautiful and I don't have to water or fertilize.

Oh I made another terminological inexactitued, I'm bad.  Now for really bad ! Everytime I say clematis we laugh because Lee has a friend who seriously called the flower white or purple chlamydia.  By the way her chlamydia plants were beautiful this year.  Now I have digressed from subject Bawhehehe!

  

This mural appeared painted on the concrete wall along Route 50 this Spring.  I, Sweet William The Scot, wanted you to see the part of my town which the mural reflects.  Columbia-Tusculum is the oldest neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and is located on the East Side of the city.  About three miles from my home.  It is a historic district that was once a neighborhood where steamboats were built.  The neighborhood is noted for the Victorian era homes decorated in the painted ladies multi-color style.  See the mural has several of the painted ladies and lovely flowers and birds.

The real houses.

Higher Level Art added a splash of color to the drab concrete wall near the gardens.  Students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati helped in the project.

http://www.pbase.com/cincyimages/columbia_tusculum

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Mayor Frankie Day

I am disclaiming,  repudiating, disavowaling (DICTIONARY) anything my Lee types if it stinks, because she had an emergency appendectomy and I, Sweet William The Scot, can verify Lee is wigged out on pain meds.

My rendition of the
Country Song Red Solo Cup just for our own Mayor Frankie ~ HIT IT ~ SING!!!!!

Red Solo Cup you fill me up Oh Frankie
Let's have a party, let's have a party

I love you Frankie You lift me up
Now I have seen  your kind of dog in short and I have seen wire hair
But only your long hair will do for this fellow

Cuz you are the Abbott and my Costelo
And you have the best  Fruit of the Looms

Red Solo Cup you fill me up Oh Frankie 
Let's have a party, let's have a party

Your the tube to the steak
You are the scoop to my Poop
In eighty seven years they are decomposable
Let's have a party, let's have a party

Cause when the poop goes on my paw
cuz  my poop sacks breaks
well that my friend that is quite yucky
Let's have a party, let's have a party

Oh Frankie you're more than just a DOG
More than amazing you're more than fantastic
And believe me that I'm not being the least bit sarcastic
Let's have a party, let's have a party

Frankie you're not just a DOG (no no God no)
You're my friend yea (Lifelong)
Thank you for being my friend
Oh Frankie

NOW FILL UP MY CUP

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Traffic Report

Down the road I go, an what to my wondering eyes should appear, oops wrong story, but I came upon this aberration (DICTIONARY).

Yes this Scooter Store Scooter on Highway 125, speed limit is 45 to 55 miles per hour four to six lanes of traffic. I would say it gets real good gas milage. Go Granny Go Granny The Little Old Lady From Pasadena Go Granny Go.

Do you need a license to ride this on the highway? WOWZA

Traveling down the road further I came upon a gargantuan, humongous, jumbo truck.

The picture is for Jazzi's Dad, I understand he likes trucks and I got to be super duper nice to him because he is my girls Dad. It took this truck 20 minutes to maneuver the corner. Largest truck on the road.  52 tires, count them.  On the truck was a gargantuan wooden box that held a lathe that came from Italy by boat to New Orleans then to Cincinnati.  The base of the lathe will sit down three stories in concrete.

I have been traveling down this road too long ~ Detour, there's a muddy road ahead detour.  Don't let the mud of the week get you!

Thanks for being a friend

traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

The Johnny Jump Up Viola comes back every year.  It grows out of the trunk of my maple tree.  We wonder how it survives. 

Run For The Roses

KENTUCKY DERBY

Well I, Sweet William The Scot, am ready for the Kentucky Derby. Got my fanciful straw bowler hat, got my own roses and now I am going to mix up my Mint Julep, The Very Dream of Drinks, so I can imbibe the spirits. WooHoo!!!!!!

The mint julep has been promoted by Churchill Downs in association with the Kentucky Derby since 1938. Each year almost 120,000 juleps are served at Churchill Downs over the two day period of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, virtually all of them in specially made Kentucky Derby collectible glasses.

Since 2006, Churchill Downs has also served extra-premium custom-made mint juleps at a cost of $1000 each at the Kentucky Derby. These mint juleps are served in gold-plated cups with silver straws, and were made from Woodford Reserve bourbon, mint imported from Ireland, spring water ice cubes from the Bavarian Alps, and sugar from Australia. The proceeds are used to support charitable causes dedicated to retired race horses. In May 2008, Churchill Downs unveiled the world's largest mint julep glass. It has a capacity of 206 US gallons.

INGREDIENTS

3 sprigs fresh mint

1 teaspoon water

1 teaspoon superfine sugar

2 ounces bourbon

INSTRUCTIONS

Muddle 2 mint sprigs, the water, and the sugar in a silver julep cup.

Fill the glass with crushed ice, and pour in the bourbon.

Garnish with the remaining mint sprig.

Who is your favorite to win the Kentucky Derby? 

A toast to the winner.

Oh No What Have I Done, HANGOVER ~ unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Thanks for being a friend

traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot