I had truly intended to get more pictures posted from our Ohio trip but my life has been a crazy blur for the past two weeks. My mom FINALLY was able to have her hip replacement surgery and since my Daddy is dead, my sister and I are her primary caregivers. Whew!! That is another post in itself.
This morning I have my wits about me enough to post a few more Ohio pics, so here goes. You should be able to click on each picture and get a larger version.
Oh by the way, I’m having some weird issues posting lately and I hope some of you can help. When I prepare a new post, instead of the picture showing up on the area where I type the post like it used to, now I get all the gobbledy-gook, computerese that describes the picture (I guess it would be the HTML description???). How do I get the picture back instead of the descriptor stuff that makes no sense?
Very close to where we camped was a ‘deer farm’ (for lack of a better description) where they raised the big deer for the game preserves out west. This was one of the big guys just laying around resting. I was awestruck because I hadn’t seen one this big ALIVE. All the ones I see are the deadheads that hang on my wall in my basement. I loved seeing them alive and in velvet. Cool!!
I loved seeing this little one with its spots. So cute!!
Here is part of our group as we are getting ready to go to church. We attended Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Greg is the tallest guy in the group and I am standing in front of him. I know, I know you thought it was an angel because of my white legs, but really I did have some self tanner on. I am just so white that it takes a LOT of self tanner to give me any color.
Many people who camp bring along bicycles to ride. Greg and I had never had bicycles since we were kids and really never anticipated getting any. However, we did fall to the temptation while we were in Ohio. The group that we were with had purchased their bikes at a bike shop in Ohio from David Beachy and so we decided to take the plunge.
Oh, my goodness. I really thought I was going to end up in an Ohio hospital. Consider that I had not ridden a bike since I was about 15. Couple that with the fact that bicycles are not like they were 30 years ago and I was testing the bike out on an uphill gravel driveway. Well, it was not pretty. I wobbled like I was a drunk driver because the steering is ultra sensitive on this type of bicycle. I did not fall, but I did alternate between praying desperately that Jesus would come back before I got all the way up the hill and cursing myself for even being stupid enough to try the stinkin bike out in the first place. I was shaking like a leaf when I got back from the test run. Greg looked at me like, “What is wrong?”. Please understand that I have an incredibly athletic husband who can pick up a tennis racket or basketball or other piece of athletic equipment that he has not had in his hands in 30 years and play a more than passable game. Me, I haven’t an athletic bone in my body and riding a bike 30 years after my last seating on a bicycle banana seat was not a blessing!! Oh, did I mention that I was testing this new bike out in front of about 9 people from our group!!
Anyway, here are the bicycles that we purchased. Mine is the pretty purple one and I can ride just fine now on level pavement. Greg’s is the blue one. They are Raleigh bikes.
Here is a picture of tons of Amish buggies parked in town while their drivers were at the local market/auction.
If the bicycle incident was the low point of our trip, the visit to Guggisberg Cheese factory was one of the high points. We purchased freshly made cheeses of all varieties, but the thing I was MOST excited about was this!! OHHHHH, Paula Deen would have been so proud of me! This is a 2 pound roll of fresh B-U-T-T-E-R. Let me tell you, when I tasted this, I really thought I had died and gone to heaven. I bought 2 rolls. Yes, 4 pounds of real, creamy, rich, fattening BUTTER. I sliced it up and froze it and will pull out a slice to use when I need it. This roll of heaven made the bicycle debacle worth every minute of embarrassment and humiliation.
On a couple of evenings, we had the privilege of visiting in the home of a local Amish family. They were delightful and truly, this was the highlight of our trip. We look forward to visiting with them again one day. Here are many of our group playing volleyball with the family in their back yard.
Here I am with some of our new friends.
Here is Greg with one of the girls who loved having her picture taken.
We met these two odd fellas in the campground???!!! They definitely needed some dental work done but Greg didn’t have his instruments with him. (Ok, lest you think I am making fun of another person, these two goof balls were with us. They are quite the practical jokesters and we laughed so hard at them we nearly died!)
My sister has lots more pics that I will share as soon as she gets me a disc made. Have a great weekend.