Hot Air Balloons

People told us we were moving to "Balloon Country", and we thought 'Yeah, that's nice. Certainly better than the airplanes we had gotten used to!'







Over the horse barn

Little did we know just how much better they would be!

The first time we heard the "whoosh" sound & saw a hot air balloon rise above the tree line, we were in awe.  They were so close!

Just down the street from us, there's a field where they run hot air balloon tours.  They often launch in the evening as we're outside eating dinner.  Sometimes they fly so low that the people yell hello to the kids.

My sister-in-law was visiting and summed it up really well...  "You've seen them in photos & movies, but seeing them in person is really cool!" 

Someday we're going to have to treat ourselves to a ride.  We'd get some awesome aerial shots of the house! 

Speaking of which, check out this framed print that the previous owner left for us (excuse the flash from my camera, I didn't want to take it out of the frame to scan it).  On the back, it's dated 1954.

The big red barn is looking very spiffy!  We have quite a bit of work to do there.  I think I'll start getting together a blog post on the barns- to organize some of our thoughts on those projects.

There appear to be cows in the field, and the little barn on the right looks similar to our goat barn, but it's not the same one.  Our horse barn is not yet there. 

You CAN see the bomb shelter trap door.  I'm dying to know if there are any old tin cans of food or anything else left down there, but alas-

We won't be finding out anytime soon

(in case you can't tell from the small photo, it's completely flooded)

... it'll have to remain locked & holding it's secrets for now.



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A Launch!