Awake: 6:48am Temp 74 sleep 6+27 morning rain, then sunny overnight @ Navarre, Ohio.
Mark & Joan call; “what are your plans for today?” they ask. “We have none” we tell them. They invite us to go with them to the town of Kidron, Ohio & browse around the newly expanded Lehman’s store; pickup time @ 10:00am. I like this idea; it’s been many yrs since we’ve visited Lehman’s, the Amish hardware & kitchen store.
Mark drives us thru the back roads so we can see a lot of the Amish farms along the way; wheat being harvested, buggies heading to & from town, laundry hanging out to dry, etc.
What a place; it’s like you’ve stepped back (100) yrs in time. So many practical things available yrs ago are being manufactured again today & Lehman’s store has them for sale.
We give ourselves an hr, separate from the ladies & go our own “man’s” way; an hr wasn’t enough to do a thorough job but now there is an incentive to return. The girls buy a few cookie cutters + a few other things.
Lunch @ the “Town & Country Store & Restaurant” in Kidron; then it’s back to our motorhome where I show M & J a few slides on the big screen. Tonight we won’t be staying up late; both we & M & J have early morning commitments so we say our “thank you & goodbyes” until next time. We really did enjoy our time together.
My sister, Corinne, calls from the state of Indiana; she & Kathy talk for about 20 min.
Kathy calls Betty Ann & talks with her about her upcoming appointment with an eye doctor in Columbus, Ohio & about her mother and how she’s doing.
Dinner by Kathy: Salmon salad, whole wheat buns, sugar snap peas, cherries, & grapes.
After dinner, I retract the front two slides just in case there is some heavy dew overnight.
Evening movie: “Barefoot in the Park” with Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, etc. Plotless, entertaining Neil Simon comedy finds Fonda & Redford newlyweds in a five-story walkup apartment. 1967. We had seen the theater play & were curious about the movie; it was…....just ok.
Lights out: 11:30pm
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