Flocks of Flox

We have one of the half barrels with Flox growing in it. This time of year it goes crazy blooming.

River Town

In the early days of the country the Cumberland river was a major route for transporting people and goods into many areas in Kentucky and Tennessee. Flat bottomed paddlewheel steam boats could travel as far up river as Burnside Kentucky. Many communities grew up around the docks where the boats stopped to load and unload people and goods. The Cumberland was a wild river before the TVA constructed the Wolf Creek Dam in the late forties, and in the spring much of the bottomlands would flood, so the communities would often be constructed a distance from the river above these flood planes. One such community was Creelsboro Kentucky, the busiest riverport on the Cumberland between Nashville Tennessee and Burnside Kentucky during the 19th century. It was never a large town, but offered a church, post office, school, bank, stores and a hotel/restaurant/store combination where riverboat passengers could find lodging for the night. A little over four years ago I took this picture of the old hotel. There is now a bare lot where this historic structure once stood. Today Creelsboro is a ghost town in the sense there are a few residents but no businesses that would qualify it as a town.

Gun Show

My brother and I drove up to Knob Creek's gun show today. I was looking for handguns, 9mm, .38 caliber and 7.62 ammunition, and holsters. If anyone had the 9mm, .38's or holsters I never found them. The 7.62 was about $140 per thousand higher than I can order them from the catalog. There was a great turn out, and I'm sure many of the dealers there will have good sales just from the number of potential customers. However, our opinion as we left after less than an hour was, we won't have any reason to make that trip again.