Turning Back toward Home

An airplane had just crashed a few minutes before we went by...police and firement still on the scene.

We have decided to "bag it" as the weather where we want to go...the East coast....is nothing but rain.  Our sister and brother-in-law are in Maine and have been to Vt. & NH and south and they say that it is simply storming.  The threats of continued rain and remnants of tropical storms just isn't worth it to us. 
So we got onto the Ohio Turnpike at Lake Erie and headed West.  Wonderful road...miles and miles of orchards with apples just hanging thickly on the trees.  To dissuade drivers from texting, a sign along the highway said...."Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet him!" 
As we drove, we saw several fire engines and police cars out in the field and flares along the highway.  The reason was an airplane crash in the field.  Dick did not recognize the kind of plane, but is was a small single engine.  Then we headed for Amish Acres....a huge complex of Amish wares with restaurant, and general store and theatre.  We stopped at the restaurant and enjoyed ham and bean soup with home made bread and wonderful apple butter spread.  Too full for shoo fly pie!  They gave us a loaf of their bread as a gift when they found out that we were celebrating our 50th. 
We stopped at the Wabash and Erie Canal Interpretive center at 4:10pm.....it had closed at 4:00pm!
But we walked around and enjoyed the area.

At the Windmill Museum.

At Amish Acres.

At Amish Acres.

At Amish Acres in front of the fudge house.  Dick is holding the loaf of bread...our 50th Anniversary gift.

We saw the Amish horse-pulled buggy, but didn't get a good picture of it....saw lots of Amish riding bikes.

At the Wabash River and Erie canal Interpretive Center.

Forgot to tell you about the Windmill Museum that we visitied.....most wonderful!  And inspired us to try to get our own aer motor windmill repaired and restored.