Ray's House of Love (Volume II)

And another fresh day, this one starting with heavy fog, which I quite enjoy so long as I don't have to drive in it. Which I don't.

Maryn, preparing to do massive amounts of laundry

Oh, I didn't know you got wine, Yeshanu. The area produces some very nice Rieslings, which are great with turkey, chicken, or fish.

Fish. Hmm, maybe I need to get some salmon for tonight. Doesn't that sound good?

Were there Amish vendors at the fair? You know, I only saw one Amish person the whole trip, and it was a bonnet-wearing woman on a bicycle, not someone in a horse-drawn carriage. When Mr. Maryn and I scouted the place a while back, we must've seen at least twenty. Darn these people for refusing to entertain and intrigue me on demand, huh?

Maryn, not fully unpacked yet

I saw two women on bicycles and one horse-drawn carriage, and plenty of roadside "souvenirs". Ew.

Ew. Glad I brought cold cereal for breakfast.

Glad you got home safe, sass! May you win a million dollars on those tix.

sassandgroove said:

There were Amish at the craft fair. But they didn't look too conservative, I saw girls in hoodies with zippers and some of them had regular clothes, just the head covering to show they were Amish. Others looked like you imagine.

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Older teens? Probably on Rumspringer, or however it's spelled, a period of a couple years during which the person is encouraged to be a part of the non-Amish world to see what it's like, before committing to the Amish community and life for the rest of one's days.

Boys tend to dress like anybody else, learn to drive, get into rock or metal, buy all the gadgets, and find they have marketable skills like skilled carpentry which can make them a decent living despite their lack of education. You can't tell they're Amish.

Girls usually retain some identifying wardrobe item, often the bonnet, dress with far more modesty than their non-Amish counterparts, and find their skills don't lend themselves as well to modern society, so they end up waitressing or working minimum wage jobs.

Maryn, who saw a documentary on this

My brain has shorted out. Who talked about lime marmalade at the HoL? Was it lime? Did someone offer a recipe?

Oh, yeah, who was that? Perhaps Cath?

I uploaded the pictures from my camera this morning. I still have to put them online, but some of them came out quite well. I hate the way I look in pictures (so old! so fat!), which is one reason to be the one holding the camera.

I have really flattering ones of several people, too. As a group, we have lovely smiles.

Maryn, who's got apple stuck in her teeth and is therefore disqualified

NeuroFizz said:

I'm the lime marmalade guy. I make it using the SureJell recipe with store-purchased limes. When I lived in Arizona I had lime trees, so I'd make it with my own limes. Could I have put "Estate Bottled" on the labels?

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And charged twice as much, too.

*puts lime marmalade on list of stuff to do someday*

Cath, for a woman who doesn't care to be photographed, the one picture I took came out quite nicely. I would be glad to shoot it to you in email if you'd rather the world didn't see it until you'd had a chance to judge it.

Some of the HOL folks are pretty photogenic, actually. The pity is that I am not among them. At least I hope I look better in person than in pictures.

Maryn, who finally emptied her camera

*scowls at Maryn* You are lovely and personable and have awesome hair.