August 13, 2012

Last night after posting the blog we were sitting in the Casita with the door and windows open.  All of a sudden we smelled a skunk.  I started stomping on the Casita floor with my bare feet in hopes of scaring him away if he was under the Casita.  Jim and I went outside with a flashlight and we didn’t see anything.  In a few minutes the odor disappeared.  He must have just been passing by.  So far tonight he hasn’t made a repeat visit.

After breakfast this morning we went to the the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.  It opened at 10:30 am and we got there a few minutes after 10 am.  There was already a big line for tickets.  We got ours and were in by 10:40 am.  We walked through the whole museum and finished at 5:00 pm when they were closing.  This museum was really great -- it had all kinds of stuff.  It has the original bus that Rosa Parks was arrested on -- I sat on her seat.  It has the limo Kennedy was assassinated in and the rocking chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated.  It has an Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.  There were lots of old farm machines, huge steam and electric engines, antique manufacturing machinery, furniture, jewelry, clocks, guns, and Americana.  There was a section with trains and RV’s.  And of course lots of cars.  Jim bought a year membership that includes a companion.  We will be going back for the next couple of days.  We want to go to Greenfield Village, the IMAX theater, the Titanic exhibit and the Ford assembly plant.   Also, we want to visit Henry Ford’s home – Fair Lane. It was rush hour when we left so we went to the nearby Fort Street Brewery then found two geocaches before returning to the Casita for dinner.