It’s a dreary cold rainy Saturday so we decided to pop into Schuyler’s Walton Mountain Museum. We’ve been here close to 20 years, seems about time! It’s a quirky little place dedicated to home town boy Earl Hamner Jr, who was best known for The Waltons – a tv series about a family living in the foothills of Virginia during the great depression. It ran for nine seasons, first airing when I was in high school and I watched it weekly.

The museum, like so many old small local museums, is a labor of love! They have brought together all sorts of memorabilia including one of the camera dollies from the show!

They have John-Boy’s bedroom (a character based on Earl Hamner himself!), the livingroom, kitchen, and even the still the little old ladies down the road from the Walton family used to make their fathers “recipe”!

It was quite a trip down memory lane, but then we got to Earl Hamner’s wall. OMG! He wrote for everything from The Waltons to 8 episodes of The Twilight Zone? Gentle Ben to Charlottes Web and Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang! Lilies of the Field to Spenser’s Mountain! Mind.Completely.Blown!!!

In other news: the little fat puppy is six months old & 26.5 pounds!?! At this rate he’ll probably weigh in at just under 35 pounds when full grown! Quite the chunky puppy!

Garden update: Daffodils, crocus and pie cherries have started blooming this week, and Virginia bluebells are leafing out! The daffodil clumps we moved last year from behind the forsythia to edge the top of the rise behind the bike house have made it and the bulbs in the meadow returned in larger clusters as well!