Our trip to CO, day 8

We all enjoyed our morning time visit from little Lincoln. There he came, knocking on the motorhome door, ready for some good times with “the kids.” We messed around a lot and got off to a late start. Our destination, Rock Ledge Ranch, a pioneer period farm. All of the workers there dress to the period and perform period tasks such as gardening, playing with stilts and blacksmithing. This was such a beautiful place to spend the afternoon! I had some alone time in the gift shop and enjoyed the items there and the fact that they had to be things that could have been around in the pioneer days. There were Native American tea formulas for all kinds of ailments, herbal formulas for medicines and lotions, sunbonnets and folk toys. I bought a few of the inexpensive toys and was very amused when my children showed significant enthusiasm in playing with them! We got a spool tractor, a set of nine pins, a buzz saw and a spool knitter. Did you know that our contemporary bowling game includes ten pins because the old-time game of Nine Pins was prohibited by law? It didn’t say definitely, in the history of nine pins pamphlet that came with the game, but I assumed it was banned due to the gambling that accompanied its play back then.