A Day With the 'Yoder's'

If you have ever visited the Amish people, you will know that about 1/2 of them have the sir name of 'Yoder'. Today we rubbed shoulders with the "Yoder's' all day long.

Started out our day by visiting the Ohio State Agricultural school in Wooster. It was raining hard, Kim drove onto their campus and wanted to go look in their greenhouses. So we all went and wandered thru them. Sorta interesting, had some fun plants to look at. We also went into this old, old arboretum & looked around. I finished looking sooner than the others, so I went back to the entrance and took some 'ar-tee-stic' pictures. This is one of them: (how wonderful you are thinking)



We drove the back roads all day long, and saw more Amish people than I have ever seen before. They were everywhere - walking up & down the streets, riding in their horse-drawn carriages, riding bikes - they were even thick in the Walmart we shopped at this morning. (That was before we started driving thru Amish towns, less you think that there is a Walmart in some place like Charm, Ohio.

The Amish cook wonderful meals. We went to an Amish restaurant for lunch - most of us had the lunch buffet. Gosh, the food tasted so good. My favorite was this broccoli, cabbage, bacon, cheese salad stuff, mixed up in this tasty dressing. After eating there, I looked thru all the Amish cookbooks I saw and usually found a recipe for it. So I took a picture of each recipe with my camera. I know you will want to make some, so here is how you can make it at your house:


We stopped at several quilt/fabric stores. This one cracked me up - The selection of fabric left a lot to be desired - unless you are Amish:


We lost Kim & Linda this afternoon. We pulled out onto the road from a store, went up & around the corner & down a hill. I couldn't see him, so I pulled over & we waited about 15 minutes. Still no show. Went back to the store & waited in the parking lot for another 45 minutes. We had no cell phone service (I guess the Amish don't have cell phones :-)
Finally drove into one of the next big towns & stopped at a motel & used their phone to call Kim & leave messages to call Blair. Cheryl also called Blair & gave him instructions on how Kim could find us. We did hook up again at a motel tonite in Coshocton, Ohio. So all is well.