Fort Phantom Hill Excursion

/Backdated from March !!/

We took a short excursion over to Fort Phantom Hill back in March. I'm actually posting this in December, as I am supremely late with a bunch of posts.

Anyway, it has been so long that I can't really remember all that much about it 

except that we stopped by, had fun trekking around trying to avoid tall grass, and taking in all the history.

I think this was like a jail cell of some sort, but I am probably wrong.

For most of the buildings, all that was left of them were the chimneys.

The commissary was pretty interesting though.  Part of it was a few feet underground.

Over the years, plants had started growing out of its many nooks and crannies.

When Cool and Warm Collide,

it makes it hard to see where you are going.

Those Dang Rats

We have had a literal SCURGE of rats over the last few months, and they had set up house and ruined a bunch of stuff under the hood of the car.

It got to the point where we actually had to get a tow truck/wrecker out because we couldn't drive it anymore.

I am thankful we could afford to get our car fixed, and were able to retrieve it a couple of days later.

Yay!

Illuminating Downtown

We were downtown for the lighting of all the downtown storybook sculptures, what with Abilene being "The Storybook Capital of the World Texas" and all.

There was an insane amount of people there that night, it made even me feel a little claustrophobic.

We brought our own little glow thingies...

and those glow thingies were EVERYWHERE.

There were plenty of photo ops as well.

Next time though, I would rather be there without the massive crowds. 

Bleh.

A Change of Scene

The Main branch of the Public Library was closed last week, and so we went by the Mockingbird branch.

Although a little unfamiliar at first, it was still a nice change from the routine, and the little boy was glad to see that they had the child-friendly computer software as well.

Bringing in the Sputtering Truck

Our Trusty Truck started making horrendous noises last Friday, and we brought it in early this morning to the Service Center.

Being one who worries about finances, I can't help thinking about how we are going to be spending money to fix the truck, and at the same time, spending money renting a car while we wait for the truck to be worked on. Ugh. I hate this double whamminess.

Anyway, I brought a Bag-O-Stuff for the little boy in case we had to be there longer than expected.

We didn't have to wait long for all the paperwork to be done and we were soon traveling home in our little rental - just big enough for the 3 of us and the little boy's car seat.

I miss our truck already.