ady Angela's Castle

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

Lady Angela, the Baron’s fiancée, lived in Alpine Castle at the other end of Castle Lake. Lilliland Castle was only three miles away from Lady Angela. Both castles were on the shores of Castle Lake.

One day, while Lady Angela and the Baron were looking at some old pictures of Lilliland, she noticed that the shoreline around Alpine Castle had changed over the years. Instead of the castle being on a peninsula, it looked more like an island with a narrow connecting road. The picture indicated that the road was becoming narrower each year.

The Baron offered to have Professor Hamblin, his chief advisor, and some experts on erosion investigate the situation. After all, Lady Angela grew up in Alpine Castle and it had been in her family for many generations. She did not want anything to happen to her beautiful home.

Professor Hamblin was prompt in looking into the problem of erosion of the roadway.

Within two weeks Professor Hamblin had his report ready to share with the Baron and Lady Angela.

It was discovered that a large sinkhole was next to the road that went right up to Alpine Castle. The loose ground was falling into the sinkhole. If large rocks were placed in the sinkhole it should solve the problem. The Baron ordered the work to begin immediately.

The Professor also had Lilliland Castle’s landscape director review some of the old pictures of Alpine Castle so that as the rocks were put into place, and landfill added, it would match the configuration exactly as it had been when Lady Angela was growing up.

It took only a few weeks to bring the large rocks down from the mountain to fill the sinkhole and a few more to add the landfill. The castle was saved and Lady Angela was pleased that the solution to the problem was so simple.