How Many Elephants?

How Many Elephants?

Week 3: So as we are waiting for delivery of the gravel, sand and pavers over the holiday weekend, I was chatting with my friend, Michelle. I was mentally worrying the logistics of deliveries (oh please, let the gravel come first; nope, here comes the first of two...
Just a Few Stepping Stones….

Just a Few Stepping Stones….

“Hey, Ray…..Think you’d be up to putting down a few stepping stones when you are out at the hall in May?” That is the exact text that I sent to poor Ray (and by extension, his wife, Bobby). He says he is going to frame that text. I think I’m going to have it put on a...
The indoor pool is now open!

The indoor pool is now open!

Nothing like getting the annual winter call from the tenant at Morton Hall…. “Laurie, hey.  Hate to call you about this but the pipe in (your kitchen, your bathroom, underneath my sink etc.) froze and there is water everywhere.  I turned off the water, but there’s a...

My home Away from Home

The first time I went to the Hall for the weekend, I was with Laurie.  We were going out for a weekend project – I believe we were going to paint the bead board for the bathroom.  I think one of my first questions to her as we approached was “is it haunted?”  If you...
Flying monkeys….

Flying monkeys….

When friends would come to visit me at Morton Hall, I have heard everything from “WOW” to “that place freaks me out” to people saying they see flying monkeys perched on the roof of the back porch.  I say, “such sissy babies”… Morton Hall has been nothing but...