Sure wish I was there now.  I have the winter blues so badly!

Spend a few more dollars than I planned this week but Kohls had an item on sale that was on my to buy list for months so I ordered it with a 30% code, free shipping and Kohls cash so while I spent I saved   I also stayed within my gas and grocery budget for the week so no overages to report which makes me very happy.  I still have $40 left for groceries for the month so will use that next weekend to stock up on produce and dairy as needed.

MTD Spend (minus budgeted items) Total:  $111.91

# Zero Spend Days  13 out of 19  Just 10 more days to go. How is everyone else doing?

In the middle of the fields stood three large trees.  When they were in full bloom with all the branches full of leaves they were majestic and strong, in the winter with snow settled into their branches and the top snow capped they were stunning, and when they were peaking through the morning fog that we often have they became the perfect scary movie location, very eerie. No matter the season, or the weather they always, even for just the few brief seconds as I drove by gave me a sense of peace. I don’t think I have ever not glanced their way. I always told myself I would stop one day and photograph them and I did about two years ago.

Here is the first one:

and here are the other two (I know really 1 1/2)

Take a good look at them because they were plowed over this week.

When I saw the first one gone I thought maybe it had been hit by lightening or had succumbed to disease and had to be removed but over the next 2 days they each disappeared, gone in the blink of an eye it seems until the landscape sat empty.

This has made me so unbelievably sad. Not only were they gorgeous to look at but think about the history behind them, these trees were probably 75-100 years old,maybe even older. They grew along side a road that is/was the main thoroughfare from Richmond to Colonial Williamsburg. Horses, carts, some of the first cars built all the way up to the electric cars of today would have past by them, their passengers all glancing at them and their beauty. 

A cool connection to the past now gone.  I don’t know why they were removed I just know that no matter the reason, my commute will be a bit less beautiful.

This is the cargo ship originally names the Dorothy A Kadinger and then renamed Bahama Pride which has been left to rust on the docks in the port of Nassau. 

I tried to Google her and find out more about her history but there is not much available except for a few possibilities such as this picture that is suppose to be of her as a operating vessel.

Sure looks it could be her but you can’t read the name closely enough to verify it.  There are several tugboats on this website which have a first name and then Kadinger as the last name all with home ports in Milwaukee but owned by different companies and/or shipyards.  I did find this information under the tug name Bahama Pride and if ti does in fact refer to this ship then she was built in 1977 and is currently owned by G & G shipping.

I wonder what her story really is?