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Close to where I live is a piece of railroad history.

The history Written....

Part of the B&O iron Bridge still standing in 2010.

The Close up of the Bollman TracksThe Iron Supports

A view of the River through the mill.

This mill was a Cotton Mill, known as the Savage Mill.
Located in Savage Maryland. Today it is an Antique and arts store.Restaurants sprinkle though out the old mill buildings.We enjoyed our visit there this last weekend. My daughters Early school years were down the street from the Mill. I remember going there and walking around. Times have changed in the years since I had last visited. Some new shops were added and more Eating places.
This is a place we will surely revisit again soon.

Mixing things up....

I have enjoyed Aloha Friday for these past two years. Loved visiting new blogs and answering questions on Friday. Kailani of An Island Life has done a great job.

Lately the numbers have been down and the problems with her link system has been troublesome for me. The purpose of a meme is to bring bloggers to your site and maybe they would follow you and answer your question. I think that some of the players have forgotten this process. One leaves an answer on their blog and they should come to your blog to reciprocate. Even if they do not want to follow you, they should return the comment. Memes can be so time consuming and frustrating when one visits all the linkers, comments on their site and only gets 1/10 return. I hope folks who play memes will read this and think about it. We play for our blog traffic to increase. It is sometimes great to meet some new followers also. I will not stop playing memes, however I will choose wisely and sometimes step away for a while if need be.

I have been Thinking of a Friday post thing to do for some time now. Trying to decide if I should rework my blogs Friday Post. After looking out the statistics I have decided to Mix things up.

I love the idea of questions at least once a week. There are so many question memes out there. Some are way too long for my liking. I need something easy and informative. Something that would help bloggers in their life or on their blogs. So I thought I would have a "For the love of Questions" Friday post.

Now for my question Friday post I will ask a question or two on a certain subject. I am thinking about all kinds of ideas, Do you have any in your mind?

I think this will be a great Friday post for me to do. It will broaden my mind and cause me to be responsive to visitors. This is not a meme I am starting, just a New Friday post for my blog. I want the question to be ones that are in reference to whatever I post that week. Trying to have some continuity to my At Home blog. Sometime a question will come to mind while I'm posting during the week. I'll try to harvest it right then. That way I will not forget it and can do some research if need be for Friday's post.

So come on by For the Love of Questions on Friday, right here. Maybe we all can learn something new or unusual. Let's broaden our horizons, and Mix things up!

Monday's News- Old Place Revisited

Here we are a new week and It's Monday, time to share my weekend adventures. Oh it started with a Thursday night Sleepover. You see daughter had Friday off school. That meant the girls wanted a sleepover night. On Friday they, as teens do, slept in. Then once up decided to go to the Catholic Church to take photos. My daughter has a blog and she posted some of those shots there.

On Saturday Hubby and I went to the Amish Market. I love getting our lunch meat, churned butter, cheese, bread and nuts there. This time I purchased some pepper fennel rolls. Not sure what my take on them are.I love to try new things, however these are not going to be my favorite.

Sunday was church time. Got to see the family. Critter was so funny as usual.

Here is one of the photos from our meeting.As you can see he is wearing my daughter hat, acting silly.

We didn't spend too long together for we needed to get going. We ate at one of our favorite place Nortons, then off to pick up our teens boyfriend. Here comes the Old Place Revisited. we drove pass my daughter old school. The one she attended from K4 to 2nd grade. Hubby and I both taught there. It was nice to revisit it. then we made are way to the Savage Mill. this is a very old Mill which was mad into an Antique Mall and shops. the added some Resturants since last time we were there.

We had not been to the Savage Mill in some time. Thinking back it had been about ten years. You know sometimes we just stop visiting the places close. On Saturday my daughter had mentioned Savage Mill. That got me thinking, we should go visit it this weekend. Hubby had never been over the bridge, so we took a walked on the 100+ year old bridge. We did some antique looking and some shopping for Christmas gifts. Stop for a Banana slit, it has been years since I had one. Stop by the French Bakery, will have to go back some time for it was closing time for them.
The stores were great, we will have to go back sometime to really shop. I saw some great things.

Well, we got our walking in and had a fun time doing it.Here is a photo of the bridge dating back to the 1800'sSo what did you do on the weekend?

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