Trip to Maryland: Part 6…Houses in Middletown and The End

Middletown is larger but still near Keedysville and Boonsboro.  I LOVE Middletown.  It’s where I would want to live.  If ever I had a spare million or so.  Seriously I don’t even want to know how expensive these houses are. Middletown might just be my favorite.  Oh, except for that town we visited on the last day, the one college town in West Virginia.  That was cool but I didn't take any pictures.

 These are right on Main Street in Middletown.  We couldn’t really stop to take pictures and so these were taken from the car as we were driving. 

I LOVE the patriotic swags going on here.  My dream house has these as well.

Some are incredibly ornate.  This one even had decorated roof tiles, I think they are flowers.

I love the well-manicured gardens.

And the wrap-around porches!

 

And yes, that is my son’s head in the bottom corner.

Gosh, maybe one day when we’re rich and famous we’ll live nearby! 

Because my husband had left already, IV and I got to make the flight back by ourselves.  I very much dislike Baltimore airport because it was not very family friendly.  In Phoenix you get a shorter security line which really makes a difference.  We ended up singing ABC's about five times, lost his shoe twice and then still had two tantrums all while waiting in line.  Yuck!  

The flight itself was ok.  I knew that Stephen would need to sleep but he had such a hard time going down.  He was kicking and flailing and just couldn't get comfortable.  Poor guy!  Luckily there were other kids on the flight who were crying the whole time and so no one was upset or rude with us.  The lady sitting next to me was so wonderful!  I am grateful to all those on the flight who helped us out with putting up our luggage, getting it down, trying to help with IV and just being understanding!  

Getting off the flight was rather difficult as I had about a million miles to walk holding IV and pulling all our luggage.  We were both sooo glad to see Stephen!  IV instantly went to him and was giggling! He was so upset when I had to take him back to change his diaper!  Haha.   It was a great trip and I am sooo glad that we were able to go! 

Trip to Maryland: Part 5…Exploring with Anj in the Country

My sister will tell you she lives out in the country, in the sticks.  Don’t believe a word she says.  There are still tons of people around and it felt like every 10 minutes or so you would run into another small town.  It is too cute!

This is the adventure to get to and from Happy’s Preschool.

This is on Main Street Keedysville.  So many of the houses will have a lit candle in EVERY window at night.  I’m sure they are now battery-operated, but it is soo cool.  I just wonder where the tradition started from.  Anyone know?

Next up is one of the many farms you pass by.

I LOVE how old some of these homes are… 1803!

And here is the Rockland.

Another house, this one does have candles in every window too.

Maryland-style log cabin.  U-G-L-Y…you ain’t got no alibi….you ugly…yeah,yeah…you ugly.   Yuck. 

The house my sister wants us to buy.  It’s gorgeous and comes with tons of farmland.

And the reason we won’t be buying it.

I will NOT live that close to a main free-way.  It was so surprising to see homes literally butted-up against the road.  No thank you.

But it sure is cute!  I love the matching swing on the porch.

Haha.  There’s a good story to this one.

Doesn’t look like much does it?  It’s this little western-style town that we have not much more information on it.  I was busy jumping out of the car and running to take pictures and Anj’s job was to drive as close as possible to the site.  On this occasion she barely pulled off the road.  I had to run the whole way up to this area and I was so scared I would get in trouble!  Literally RIGHT after I took this picture some men came into view and I ran as fast as I could back to the van.  Laughing the whole way of course.

Our favorite farm.

A wider angle of it.

There are these old one-lane bridges that you have to cross over.  Soo pretty.

This one was built in 1850 for just over 1 thousand dollars.

A mill that’s now used as a house.

Many of the old homes had signs like this.  Pretty much any building was used as a hospital.

The remnants of the working part of the mill.  So crazy that they put these stones in by hand.  I can’t imagine how much time and effort that would have taken.

Daffodils in bloom!  As an Arizona girl I have never understood bulb flowers, but to see them bloom in the midst of the dreary winter that never seemed to end was quite the sight.

And I love the stone wall behind the flowers.  These were all over and were again placed by hand without any mortar.  Soliders may have crossed over these during the Civil War.

Here’s the remnants of an old bridge.

See where it connects on the other side?

Yeah, clear up there.  This was a Civil War bridge and certainly would have been cool to see.  It spanned quite a distance and went extremely high up.

So many cute churches.  Each small town had several at least.

I love this stone-work!

Keedysville Main Street.  I love seeing the flag and the steeple of the church.

Cute houses.

I love the old red brick poking through.

Sometimes at the top of the brick fences would be these rocks poking straight up.  Ouch!

Just lounging.

These homes had the craziest switch-back driveways. 

It is soo rocky and hilly there.  Most of the farms raise animals instead of growing plants for sell.  At least most of what I saw.

Fun Houses

After my appointment on Thursday and after we fixed the flat tire, I decided to drive around taking pictures of the fun houses nearby. These were taken near and in the historic district by where we live. I'm not going to comment on every single one because there's so many but I wanted to show them off.

I like the above one because it reminds me of Arizona, but it's definitely one-of-a-kind out here.

Now this next one is right by where we live, and I really like the look of it, I just think it's cute.

Now there are plenty of these types of houses all over, the run down very dilapidated homes. It always amazes us to see that people live in some of the homes that look uninhabitable. This one is just down the street from us.