Paris, KY

Ahhhh... "those were the good old days," my Mom and Dad used to say. I can well remember the story of an old Sears refrigerator that they carted all over Wyoming to Laredo Texas when my Dad was in the Air Force back in the 50's. Then they packed it to Richmond, Kentucky and used it for years. Later, it was installed in a apartment and it might still be there! It's over 50 years old! They don't make them like they used to! I was up for the task when a friend mentioned the ugly pink refrigerator in an apartment they bought at auction and were renovating. "Let me see it... I need a picture of it's ugliness for my story!" I said. Off we went to check it out. Sure enough....it sho was ugly! Can you imagine a marketing sales meeting at Frigidare where they discussed the latest line of colors and someone suggested pink? Who would vote for that? The whole reason of my story was really to discuss why appliances are not made like they used to be? They are breaking down after a few years and the parts are sooo expensive! Why is that? It's almost cheaper to buy a new one. That's the whole idea! Nothing is made well anymore. If it were made sturdy like a tank there would be no need to buy a new one unless it were pink and you change the decor. Here's more of the discussion and why we are almost forced to buy new appliances. REQUEST A KENTUCKY RELOCATION PACKET! Finding a new Kentucky home with VA Loans has never been so easy! Just click on the links below. LEXINGTON KY RESIDENTIAL HOMES FOR SALE RICHMOND KY RESIDENTIAL HOMES FOR SALE Lizette Fitzpatrick- Principal Broker at Lizette Realty. For more information on Kentucky Horse Farms and Lexington KY real estate click on Lizette.us. Copyright 2011 by Lizette Fitzpatrick *Why Throw Out That Ugly Pink Refrigerator?*

Geocaching in Bourbon County, KY

Having recently read Cindy Edwards' blog about

Geocaching, it's a great family thing.

I was, fortunately, well aware of what exactly I was looking at this afternoon.

I took a little by-way side trip today, on my way home from a Carlisle Kentucky area home inspection, to see an old covered bridge I hadn't see before (though I'd passed the directional sign many times.

Kentucky's Disappearing Covered Bridges is the blog I wrote about the Colville Covered Bridge.

However, while poking around the bridge looking at it's architecture, I saw something a ways away that just didn't fit in. See the little white spot at the bottom of the arrow.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. So I walked up a little closer to look at it and found a fresh pine board with this sign on it.

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I looked over the top of the railing and saw this:

So I opened the box, pawed through the stuff that was in there: several pens, the log book, some hard candy, a business card or two, and what appeared to be a hash pipe!

I snapped a picture of the inside of the box, signed the log book, took a piece of candy (Don't know if I'll eat it or not but hey), left several business cards, closed the box and went my merry way.

Unfortunately, the picture of the inside of the box just didn't turn out, (dark and blurry, dang it).

An interesting By Way for the Day!

As Cindy said: "If you go to the Geocaching.com site and put in your zip code, you will be surprised at how many treasures there are in your area. And it's FREE. A fabulous outing to do with children, or adults. When ever we go on vacation, we pull up all the caches in the area and go treasure hunting!"

This is the home of true bourbon whiskey, which was shipped north to the Ohio River and then on by riverboat to the world in barrels stamped Old Bourbon. True bourbon whisky has a finicky range of requirements, primary of which is its mash must be at least 70% corn, and it must be aged for 4 years. It owes its renowned smoothness to the local limestone-filtered water.

The same ground water that makes our bourbon whisky uniquely drinkable has made our Thoroughbreds great racehorses. The county is underlain by high-phosphatic limestone, or karst, derived from the skeletons of sea life deposited during the Ordovician era, roughly 460 million years ago when this area was warm, inland sea. Be aware that not all Bourbon County land offers this karst substratum! There are geological fault lines running through the county and the bedrock can differ drastically from one side of these fault lines to the othe. Buying a farm is a complex undertaking. Cintact

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Bourbon County. Settlers first moved into this area northeast of Lexington around 1776, building on the watershed of what was to become Stoner Creek. At the time, this area was part of Virginia, and covered a huge, unsettled swath of northeastern Kentucky. It was named in honor of French Royal House of Bourbon by the Virginians, in gratitude for France’s assistance to America in our War of Independence from England. Bourbon County was officially founded on October 17^th, 1785 and the appropriately named town of Paris designated the county seat. In time, the Bourbon County of Virginia was divided into 18 Kentucky counties.

Bourbon County sits at 715 to 1050 feet above sea level, covering 292 square miles of land with one square mile of water. It is primarily agrarian, with rolling hills, few heavily wooded areas, and abundant streams and sink holes. The eastern woodland Indians hunted extensively here, as evidenced by large caches of artifacts found throughout the county. The movie Seabiscuit was filmed on the former Xalapa Farm in southeastern Bourbon County and some of its scenery is typical of the landscape common in this area. Population growth has been modest since the 1790 when there were 7,837 settlers counted; there were an estimated 19,839 residents in 2007.

Thanks to Lucy Clare who will be a regular "Historian" and contributor for Bluergrass Trophy Properties

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