Exploring

Boys at the gate for 'alive' people.

And another good morning to you! It is another beautiful sunny day outside with our temperature currently sitting at 57°. Bonners Ferry looks to be cloudy and 50° while Yreka is cloudy and 49°. I don’t know what Dublin and Paris are as I removed them from my laptop and don’t care to look them up.

The gate for 'dead' people.

Yesterday was a tolerably good day. Paul and I took off around 10:30 to go get fuel and look at plants in Fitchburg. Fuel was got but the prices for plants were outrageous so we didn’t get any. We came home and had lunch and got boys ready to go out and left to look at plants in Sterling, West Boylston, and Leicester. We got lots of plants and our new favorite place to go is the one in Leicester because the people are super friendly, the prices were by far the best, and the plants are by far the best—sturdy and healthy.

A couple of the gravestones.

Once our plant purchases were complete, we went to the Spider Gate Cemetery. It’s an old Quaker cemetery and there are some old people buried there. The oldest ones I noticed were born in the early 1700’s. Paul said that the gravestones have been vandalized. Most of them are new, relatively speaking, because the original ones were, I think he said, slate. At any rate, it was very cool.

A drain. For what was it used? I wonder.

Our next stop was a WWII POW camp. Paul was at first disappointed because there didn’t seem to be any sign of the buildings that used to be there but then we found some foundations and there were two building still standing. One was built into a hill and the other is a solitary confinement cell block. There were tunnels under the whole compound but many, if not most, of them are now caved in or blocked off. There is one still by the solitary confinement building that the boys had fun exploring.

Another drain at the end of a trough.

When we came home, it was time to eat and get ready for bed so we could read another chapter of Nephi and have family prayer. Paul too his new toy to a repair shop down the road and then went to Leominster to pick up a shelving unit. He was going to pick Amena up from the church where she was with Laura and Joanna on his way but Laura texted me that they were on their way home so Paul was able to just keep going.

The boys standing in the doorway of an intact foundation.

Laura and Joanna had been at a YSA Family Home Evening. They had fun but the turnout was awful. Besides them there were only two other girls and two missionaries. The only reason Amena was with them is because of the attitude she developed about going with us to go exploring which she allowed to cause her to go exploring in our woods when it was time to leave.

This is upclose of the interior of the next one.

And that’s about it for today. Have a magnificent one!

This is just cool.

Cedric on the roof of the solitary confinement cell block through one of the holes in the roof.

Cedric on top of solitary confinement again.

Cedric peeking in one of the air vents of a solitary confinement cell.

Reflection of Joseph in water at the bottom of the tunnel. He was peeking in through a hole in the roof.

Cedric wanted to ride his bike so he got to for part of the way home.