IT'S TIME TO LEAVE KENTUCKY

 Christmas Eve 2013,  our last day at Green River Stables in Campbellsville Kentucky we brought our remaining carrots to the pony who lives there.  The pony LOVES carrots.

  Here is my home-away-from-home.  I worked 50 & 60 hour weeks during their Christmas peak.  I worked in packing your orders.  The managers were super helpful, patient, motivated and everyone had fun during the long long days.  But check out the guys in the pic.  Looks like they are wondering what I'm up to doesn't it?

 All the barns we saw in this part of Kentucky are decorated with these designs known as a barn quilt.

 A barn quilt is a large piece of wood painted to look like a quilt block.  They usually measure 8 ft.  If you want one on your barn I found a web link (http://ces3.ca.uky.edu/madisonquilttrail)  that for $300 will paint and hang a quilt block for you.  

The earliest versions of barn quilts have been around for hundreds of years.  Barns were not painted back in the day.  They were decorated with different types of folk art.  This included quilt blocks once paint was readily available and affordable.  Legend has it that quilt patterns used in a certain order, relayed messages to escaping slaves.