#28 ~ Hidden Valley

Hidden Valley Homestead where Archeological Digs Continue

The Entrance

The Old Someplace and a Fw More More Pictures of It from Different Angles

Front Steps

Here the rain is moving in.

This is the kitchen house which was built later on. The original one burned.

It is now 2 accommodations - one upstairs and un downstairs. The bottom one has a kitchen and both have living rooms and fireplaces. This is where I would want to stay. 

Not in the house. This is way more cozy and comfy. 

As we were leaving the owners returned and the wife took me through this building.

There is a covered walkway from this building to the main house,

Steps to Entrance

  

Vintage Door Knocker...I bet it is the original.

All the fences are wood.

 

Original Springhouse

The Spring House Water Supply

Here is the pipe where the water comes in.

I have to believe that they have a well and pump now, 
because this is really rusted.

Another Pipe

Rear of Spring House

II have no clue what this container if for. 
The owners of the B and B were not there when 

we were walking all around the property so I could
not ask them my wealth of questions.

Old Living Quarters 

More Old Living Quarters

 A BIG Goat

Family of Goats Plus a Few Chickens for Fresh Eggs

This has been an archeological site for years and years and is now governed by the National Forest Service. I do remember hearing that the digs have produced prehistoric remains. The home is now under private ownership and is used as a beautiful B and B where they take pristine care of their historical treasure. The wife raises the goats and there are bunches of them. The following is all I could find on the internet, but we are going to go back to talk at length to the owners so I acn update the history of the home, the property, and the area.

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Pictures taken with my iPhone 5C in late November 2015

Wiki:

Hidden Valley, also known as Warwickton, is a historic home located near Bacova, Bath County, Virginia. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a hipped roof in a Greek Revival / Late Victorian style. It has a rear ell. The front facade features a pedimented tetra-style portico with Ionic order columns, placed over the central three bays of the five-bay facade. The entranceway is styled after a design on Plate 28 in Asher Benjamin's stylebook, The Practical Carpenter (1835).^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ Jump up to:^a b Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Jump up^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved2013-05-12.
3. Jump up^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (October 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hidden Valley" (PDF). and Accompanying photo

#22 ~ A Cow Critter and a Snow Genie

"In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

~William Blake

The Start of the Snow 1-21-16. The sky is still blue.

The blue sky is still showing.

Sorry about the fence post. I cropped it so you could see the cow better

The Skies are clouding up...big snow on its way.

The snow is coming down. This is the creek in front of the house.  1-22-16
A few hoodoos are left from the summer and fall.

Another shot of the creek. 1-22-16

Now, here is how an old lady makes a Snow Genie ::-)

These were taken this morning by Buddy. It snowed all day yesterday, all last night, 

and all morning today. Now it seems to have moved on...thank goodness.

I will post photos of the barn tomorrow for Tom’s Barn Collective.

These were taken today - 1-23-1

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

~C.S.Lewis

(I am already there, and I am 76.)

                 OK...Do I really want to go through with this. When Eloise and I did it when she was 5,
                                          that was five years ago. I am now five years older.

I DID IT!  WOO HOO! 

With multiple  ayers of SmartWool long john bottoms, 3 tops plus the parka,2 hats

and heavy duty boots with two pair of wool socks...

I was warm.

How do I get out of this cold stuff?

OK, Stupid....CRAWL to the walkway Buddy shoveled.

I finally made it! Thanks for all the help Jack.

The broom handle saved my life. I was able to pull up. 

Bud was long gone shoveling The Bridge to Somewhere
so was nowhere around to bail me out of a rock and a snowy place.

“Deep meaning lies often in childish play.”

~Johann Friedrich von Schiller

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Waiting Patiently

Cardinal Waiting Patiently In It’s Tree

“Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.”
~Henry Van Dyke

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WHY? WHY? WHY?

About 8 or 9 years ago I rescued this kitty from the dumpsters. He was skinny and so frail. We names him Trouble with a capital T. I put out fresh water for him every morning and there is water on the floor for the dog, but NO. He has to drink from the john. WHY?????? Cats definitely have minds of their own. He is Buddy’s cat, and if anyone comes for a visit you never see the whites of his eyes. He puts up with me, but he LOVES Buddy.

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

~Ernest Hemmingway

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Poor Little Ralph

Meet Ralph. He has been living up in our attic and walls and making all kinds of disturbing noises at night.  Lately, Buddy noticed some of our plants had been used for a diner meal by some unknown animal. He came up with an idea for protection: the grill, two rise trays removed from the grill, plexiglass, some beaded board and the propane tank. Only something small would be able to break the barrier. Well, one did and nibbled off the tops of two of his little flowers. Well, that did it, and of I went to Lowes for a friendly trap that you bait with food, and when the animal gets in it and the door slams shut, you have pick up the cage and release him far, far away.Well, we got him and it oh, so quiet now. Bud calls it a Wood Rat. He’s so cute with his little pink eyes. By the time Bud got him up in the woods of North Mt., he was scared to death. Finally, he tilted the cage and Ralph scampered off into the woods. The house is certainly quite these days :-)

I am not sure which bird this is, but he surely was enjoying the food left at the entrance/exit from a part of the Appalachian Trail. Please let me know what it is. While I was waiting for my two hikers to return from their 10 day hike (I shuttle hikers to and from the trail), I spotted this hungry guy. He would get the food into his mouth and then fly off with it. I did not ever see him actually eating the food in front of me, and I was not able to get a frontal shot.

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Jack and Cuz Buster

Poor Jack...he did not know what to do with his frisky cousin that wanted to jump about and play all weekend. It is sort of like he is saying...”Please just leave me alone. You are barely one and I am 13.”

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Bud to the Rescue

The stomach virus I caught from Bud was a killer, but it’s gone and I’m about back to normal. It has been so cold and I have felt so yucky that this week I am using some of Bud’s iPhone shots from his morning runs. He runs rain, sleet, ice, or snow. Nothing stops him!

These two shots were taken this past May.

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