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Showing posts with label Mountain Home. Show all posts

Friday, 19 June 2015

Taos or Bust

 Mountain Home, Arkansas

We're camped in an Army Corps of Engineers campground on Lake Norfork in northern Arkansas.



I can hardly believe we've spent eight nights here. We'll wait one more than to let tropical storm "Bill" amble out of our way.  It's dumped a pile of rain here and a lot more on our path west though Oklahoma.



We go down to Conway with Paul and Diane and help Jason and Caroline a little with the remodeling projects. They've found some amazing stuff on Craig's List including a deeply discounted $8,000 bathtub that looks like a futuristic giant egg, a stove, a refrigerator and an entire unused gym basketball court floor.


One day Mrs. Phred and I drive up to see the little known Bull Shoals Cavern. It has been inhabited by Indians, Confederate soldiers, moonshiners and trout farmers...the trout farming thing flopped because nobody wanted to eat eyeless, albino rainbow trout.


Paul, Dianne and Chris running hard oak pieces though a planing machine.


You can see the seam where the basketball court floor is joined together...it's a really nice floor, new since we were here last June...


The kitchen we were working on last year is mostly done except for a couple of minor trim items.


Jason at work.


The Bull Shoals cavern has every type of limestone formation found in any cave in America including the rare "boxwork" formation which is only found in one other cave in the U.S. (the Wind Cave in South Dakota)...we've been there too...I forgot to get a picture but here's a hyperlink


More cave pix....


Mr. Phred making blueberry pies....

Saturday, 19 May 2012

Lake Norfork

Mountain Home, Arkansas

We spend 10 nights on the shore of Lake Norfork. It's another Army Corps of Engineers campground, so it's nicely designed as always.


We play tennis and visit a little with old friends who live here.


We look at some houses again. The seem extraordinarily inexpensive to us, but we can't even begin to think about pulling the trigger on a home purchase here. Centrality for future RV travel would be a plus, but it's a long way to the nearest halfway serious airport.


We'll head for Memphis next to hear some blues....


Goodbye Mountain Home....