From the title you might think I'm starting a fund-raiser program to fed the poor. Noble as that is, I often have to worry about just being able to feed myself and my wife. So no, that is just the title of todays post.
Muddy Boots in Black and White.
Anybody who knows me knows two things about me. I like cars and I like to drive. I like to drive so much that o my mid week days off from work I make myself little road-trips for breakfast just so I can come back through the countryside. I have to have a camera with me and the day must be fairly nice, otherwise I just go local. The vehicle of choice is either the '99 Sebring JXi convertible, or the '86 BMW 535i that I'm slowly (also know as poor) restoring. I've made trips to the Kokomo area, Matthews Indiana (where there is a beautiful Covered Bridge, another reason-passion to drive) and last week to Nashville Indiana just to have two eggs over medium, spicy diced potatoes, two sausage patties and two cups of really good coffee. I also went to see my friend Dick Schaffner's late 80's (original, real) right hand drive British Mini and to get a ride from Beanblossum to Muddy Boots restaurant in Nashville.

Above, The 86 Mini in a storage box, not running.

I tinkered with my Bimmer the night before, but it is having some issues so I drove the Vert, when I got to the storage facility where Dick parks the mini he was there also tinkering, and like my experience and disappoint with the Bimmer, he to was a little anguished at his mini Mini ride. She wouldn't start, no gumption, no go. So instead of taking a small car fast down terrifically winding roads I followed his Honda in my convertible to the restaurant. After breakfast he took me down more winding hilly roads to his home, and after that I was on my own to discover Brown county's beauty.

Figtree Fire Dept. in Helmsburg,
...they had a few more fire engines in back from other places too.
I found Helmsburg (right where they left it) and shot a few fun shots, then went back to Nashville proper and did the tourist run, ending up with a gift for my mother and another for my bride, who was diligently plodding along at work. The drive home was equally off path, to no surprise I found a covered bridge on Covered Bridge Road in Beanblossum, after that I found my way to Edinburgh and Amity before coming back to the chuckpace.com World Headquarters from the west side of the Hancock county. Who knows where I will get my breakfast on next Thursday, when I again have the day to myself. Could be anywhere, or right at home only time and weather will tell.

This Marker and grave is in the middle of a road east of Amity, the ancestors was petitioned and it wa s left undisturbed, the road splits around it from either direction.
Chuck Pace ©2009 
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