Boomersmother of Sedona

The past couple of days, Lois and I have been working on art projects and taking it easy. Saturday we went to four yard sales and we hit the BEST yard sale I have ever been to! There was tons of good almost new and some new arts and crafts supplies. Books, patterns, paints, pens, expensive kits, and containers....too much to even think about listing everything. Lois and Dick got a trunkload of stuff for $40 and I got a heavy bag full for $10. I'll have to mail my stuff back, but one book alone which was brand new still had it's tag on it for $19.99. I got some patterns for quilting that I will have Sarah help me with. One is cute- with frogs.

 Today, we got up early and headed southeast to Lancaster, Reading, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, Paradise- Amish country in PA. As we passed through the Pocono's I tried to capture some color in the leaves but we were on interstate and the color was almost gone. I got some great cloud pictures though! Funny story-
I was looking out the passenger side in the back seat on the west side of the car. I kept seeing these green clouds- a sea green- and some pink clouds-pastel pink, and just plain blue sky and white clouds. I kept taking pictures trying to capture the green and pink clouds but when I reviewed the pictures, I only saw normal blue sky and white clouds. It puzzled me, so I asked Lulu to look out the window and tell me if she saw the green clouds. She said, "no green clouds..." I continued to be puzzled. If I looked out the east window it was normal blue sky and white clouds. Finally, it dawned on me! It couldn't be the tinted windows because they were tinted all around. I was wearing my new polaroid sunglasses over my new clear glasses. It's the clip on sunglass, so nothing abnormal about that. But I discovered if i looked out my clear glasses, the clouds were normal. So it has to be the sunglasses! Anyway, I was thinking technocolor clouds but it was just me. It kept me busy quite awhile trying to figure that one out!

We arrived in Lancaster and tried to go to a restaurant called the "Good N Plenty" but it is closed on Sundays. It was suppose to have great Amish home cooking. As we drove around town we discovered none of the restaurants or stores that were Amish were open. So we are spending the night and will check out some places tomorrow. Dick remembered this place off the main drag called "The Red Caboose Restaurant and Motel." The restaurant and motel are all remodeled train cars.Quaint place. Dick said he remembers staying in one of the train cars years ago and it was not a pleasant night's sleep. The place was full though. Lots of families. We had a delicious meal- Lulu and Dick had meatloaf. The slices were so big it was like half a loaf pan for each plate! I had Amish chicken pot pie. I got a bowl of what I call, chicken and dumplings with the chewey dumplings I love to make from scratch. Lulu and I had real mashed potatoes and green beans. Dick had his meatloaf over bread with gravy, french fries, and green beans. We had PLENTY to eat! As we ate, I took pictures out the window of some of the horse and buggies that went buy. These buggies do not go slow either. They have those horses trotting pretty fast! We could also see the train tracks and a tourist train would go by every now an then. It is a working railroad so I'm sure bigger trains go by sometimes, also. In town as we drove to the local hotel we stayed in, we saw big farms with maze being the main crop right now. It was being harvested and there was some kind of machine that had cracked a pile of corn for the animals near the restaurant. I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Amish family and farm

Beautiful orange mums

Notice buggy that is turning right is family buggy. The red buggy is a tour buggy.

This buggy is on a "buggy car lot" and the body needs work but the wheels are in excellent condition!

Lois and Dick waiting for their meatloaf meal. Every once in awhile the train car would shake and the train whistle would blow. Almost like we were eating while the train was riding down the tracks.

Taken on the side of the Red Caboose Restaurant and Motel. Notice railroad tracks and large farm in distance.

Red Caboose Motel. Each train car is a room similar to a motel room. They even have a "honeymoon" train car.