Plenty Of Rocks

I wonder if the Volkart boys ever built a rock fort when they were kids growing up in Moniteau County? I don't think the Rolla Boys ever thought of building one in Phelps County, but we should have. If there was one thing we had a lot of in our neck of the woods, it was rocks. We had enough rocks to build a new high school if we could have thought of a way to trick a few kids from the other neighborhood into hauling them up from the creek that ran from behind our house all the way back to Bray's Lake. Now that I think about it, it's probably a good thing we didn't. A rock wall caving in on a bunch of 12 year old boys would have probably not turned out well. I never tried it, but I suspect hiding a broken leg from your mom would have been more difficult than it sounds, even back in 1972.

I copied the above picture off the Huckberry.com web site. I don't know where this picture was taken, but I'm guessing the roofless structure was once someone's home, or possibly a shed or a barn. Wait a minute, wait a minute...I'm having de-ja vu here. I think maybe I've used this picture before. Time to get some new pictures: I'll keep you posted....