Sat. morning about 10 AM we left Edwardsville traveling west on IL 143 through the rolling hills to Alton where we connected with IL 100 traveling north with the Mississippi river on our left and the tree covered rocky bluffs on the right. What a pretty drive this was. At about Grafton we started to move away from the river where the the rocky bluffs began to turn into rolling hills and to our left were the fertile Mississippi bottom farms with corn fields in various stages of growth up to about 12 inches. At Hardin we crossed the Illinois River and proceeded north to Kampsville
were we turned north on IL 96. We knew we were supposed to turn at Wild Cat Holler just after we crossed a bridge and just after we had gone past a certain cattle farm we missed it and continued on into Pleasant Hill so we could turn around. We called Gail and he said to come back 7 miles and just after crossing the 4th bridge to turn left and sure enough about 3/4 mile up the holler there was Gail & Chris's house. The road sign was no where to be found I suppose somebody needed it for their den.
Gail fixed some very tasty pork steaks on the grill which along with deviled eggs, potato salad, Baked beans and chocolate cheese cake made for a very delicious mothers day meal. In the afternoon we enjoyed visiting and watching the humming birds feed at the 3 feeders attached to the patio. I have never seen so many humming birds at one time. Just before dark all three feeders were just covered with them. They have to fill the feeders everyday.
Sat. morning about 10 AM we left Edwardsville traveling west on IL 143 through the rolling hills to Alton where we connected with IL 100 traveling north with the Mississippi river on our left and the tree covered rocky bluffs on the right. What a pretty drive this was. At about Grafton we started to move away from the river where the the rocky bluffs began to turn into rolling hills and to our left were the fertile Mississippi bottom farms with corn fields in various stages of growth up to about 12 inches. At Hardin we crossed the Illinois River and proceeded north to Kampsville
were we turned north on IL 96. We knew we were supposed to turn at Wild Cat Holler just after we crossed a bridge and just after we had gone past a certain cattle farm we missed it and continued on into Pleasant Hill so we could turn around. We called Gail and he said to come back 7 miles and just after crossing the 4th bridge to turn left and sure enough about 3/4 mile up the holler there was Gail & Chris's house. The road sign was no where to be found I suppose somebody needed it for their den.
Gail fixed some very tasty pork steaks on the grill which along with deviled eggs, potato salad, Baked beans and chocolate cheese cake made for a very delicious mothers day meal. In the afternoon we enjoyed visiting and watching the humming birds feed at the 3 feeders attached to the patio. I have never seen so many humming birds at one time. Just before dark all three feeders were just covered with them. They have to fill the feeders everyday.
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