Bird on the Border My blog shares my experiences with patchwork, stitching, family ,friends and caravanning
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| One of the two shows I was lucky enough to see in Las Vegas |
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| The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is where we saw Elton John |
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| The Bellagio has a water fountain show to music every 15 minutes |
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The Elton John concert was amazing . The music and stage effects and were brilliant, mostly achieved through clever lighting. Even though Elton had a croaky throat (which I am sure he sent to me.).it was an amazing concert. |
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| Not a night out in Vegas without a drink |
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| Vegas is full of hotels that are made to copy somewhere else in the world. Paris is just one. |
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| Potato chips with burgers?? , hot dogs and the best fish and chips I have ever had at Gordon's. |
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| Halloween in Vegas and just a few of the critters we met.
Day two Kerry , Sue and I took a trip to Good Springs . Now a ghost town but in its day a bustling town with large hotels and mining. How the people survive and still survive in the harsh environment is hard to fathom.
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| Miners homes made of whatever they could find. |
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| A shrine to Carol Lombard who was a regular visitor with Clark Gable until her plane crashed and she was killed in the mountains behind the town. |
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| The old Saloon Bar- check out the pressed tin ceiling. |
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| We asked the bartender to line up a scotch on the old bar. |
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| Potato Chips and burgers, the norm here. |
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| Whisky drinkers can rent a cask to age their spirits, the only thing is you have to drive 45 mins to pick it up when you need to refill your bottle. |
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| Yes there was a gunslinger or two and a man who was shot because he cheated at cards. The holes are still in the wall. |
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| The outside |
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| This was an unusual custom at good Springs and I think other cemeteries. Any returned soldiers visiting leave a coin on this stone and they are collected and sent to an organisation which helps pay for burial services of returned soldiers who cannot afford it. |
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| This bear has a story- years ago a baby died at birth. Years later( about 30 years ago )this babies brother visited the grave and placed a bear. It is still there. It's a fabric bear, so preserved because the average rainfall is only 4 inches a year and the air is so dry. AMAZING!
Good Springs is now a popular 4WD and off road playground.
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| This was a view from the air on the way to Vegas. Irrigation is necessary to grow anything. |
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| This is what is in my hoop at the moment.. Just felt like doing some embroidery and it's so close to being finished. It is quite an old design by the then Rosalie Quinlan now Rosalie Decker |
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| Does anyone remember this fabric from Cottage On The Hill a few years ago.?It belongs to a friend of mine and I really want her to finish it. I think a piece has been misplaced or thrown out accidentally. So before we take off a row I thought I would send out an SOS. It had a lot of linen in the series. I am not even sure what the range was called is. Does anyone have any left overs? Sorry its the only photo I have. |
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This is the view from my sewing room.
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| Looking west toward the wheat silos. the gutters have not been full for a while. |
