When we retired we thought about building a new home on Possom
Trot Lane about a dozen miles east and a little north of Indiana University.
However, the old knees gave out and Sugarlump is a PWP so we decided
to get a little house with a little yard with some little raised gardens.
We
went back to a retirement party where we worked for a third of a century in
northern Illinois and everybody remembered Possom Trot Lane and many of
the other names from Monroe-Brown County, Indiana. There's Gnaw Bone,
Lickskillet, Bean Blossom (that's where Bill Monroe has the big annual
bluegrass festival), Stony Lonesome, Pike's Peak, Stone Head, Greasy Creek,
Bear Wallow, Weedpatch Hill, and many other interesting names.
We have some friendly possums who raid our gardens.
