Wouldn’t you just love to live in this! OMG I don’t know how the sturdy pioneer woman did it!! We drove over to Ash Hollow today – I have many photos so I will do several blog post with them. This post will be just on the sod house 
With two doors and no windows I’m not sure how the pioneer woman got her sewing done – she must have been almost blind from eye strain within a few years of living here. Maybe she put her rocking chair (if she had one) outside by the door when she was working on her sewing so she would have more light?
The little sod house - so nice and cozy I'm sure. Made from cutting the ground up into squares or oblong pieces and stacking. Inside is muddy and damp, dirt dropping I imagine and bugs crawling.
the inside of the "house"
I looked up at the roof and saw these cactus - I thought it was really weird to have cactus growing on the roof.
then I walked around to the back of the house and looked up and saw the roof was covered in prickly pear cactus!
While we were looking and taking photos another tourist came by so I had him take a photo of Mike and I in front of this house
for some unknown reason (to me that is) in this part of the country it is not uncommon to see boots placed on fence posts. The property by the sod house had a whole string of boots on the fence post. Anyone know the reason for this tradition?
I will do one or two more post on Ash Hollow – like I say I have a lot of photos. I will get behind on posts at some point I am sure. So far we have had a cell signal strong enough for internet at all places we have been – I’m sure sooner or later there will be several days in a row without it.
Tomorrow we move on and will be at the end of Western Nebraska. We will see Chimney Rock and Scotts Bluff National Momument. Depending on where we find a campsite we might also be seeing historic Fort Laramie in Wyoming.
An update on the quilting front I am about 2/3′rds done with one applique block – wonder if I will get done with it by the weekend. I have not spent much time at it. We have been taking walks as often as we can, we are trying to get in shape for hikes in the mountains later this month. I think we did 2 miles yesterday (one walk) and 3 walks today for a total of about 4 miles.
