Saturday's Adventures

Saturday was to be the day that dear husband and I were going to Freedom, Indiana to an Amish owned general store.  They sell many food items in bulk, and I was out of some spices and noodles.  So we set off at 12:30p.m. on what was to be a 2 hour trip???????    Thought I would share my Saturday with you:)

This old iron bridge is somewhere between Freedom and Washington, which will be our next stop.  The bridge is under construction, probably means it will be dismantled and replaced with concrete :(  There really isn't much character in concrete, just my humble opinion.

After stopping at the general store (sorry no pics, Amish owned), we went on to Washington, seeking out the Stitching Post.  I had found this store on line, and I am sooooo very happy that I found this store.  In case you haven't guessed already, The Stitching Post, is an AWESOME quilt/fabric store.  They have 10,000 bolts of fabric in the store, as well as all kinds of patterns, kits, notions, giftees....ahhh heaven!  Oh and she also offers an on-line store, with unbelievably low shipping prices!!!!  (http://www.stitchingpostquilts.com/)

And of course I did buy a thing or two :)

Fell in love with these pinks and browns,
and it's a Civil War pattern...
need not say any more.

Also picked up these patterns.  Thought the Nine Patch Bouquet would be a good way to use up some of my scraps.  And the Basket Quilt just might become a table runner:)

OOOPS, another Civil War item,
This one is a Schnibbles, yep I have a
Schnibbles, too!

Just south of Washington, we came across this wonderful old round barn.  Built in 1908, and still

being used today. 

Hoping that our next outing I will find some more

old barns and churches to take pictures of, before they are all gone.  But on with this trip.  Somewhere along the line we decided to go on down to Winslow to visit our daughter and her family.  Actually that was dear husband's plan all along :)

Here we got to see the grandkids and their new toys in action.  We had a very very nice, long over due, visit. 

From here we went to Ireland for dinner, yes I said Ireland...don't believe me, well

here's the sign to prove it....

 

Had a yummy dinner of fried chicken and German fries, don't quite understand German fries in Ireland, but what the hey, they were delicious!!!  The name of the restaurant,

"The Chicken Place".

From here, I'm not sure where I was!  My dear husband is a Harley rider, and he decided to take me to some places he had been on the bike.  Some of these roads weren't really roads...I'm sure they were covered wagon trails that had petrified (LOL).

But I did see what was at one time the world's longest train trusses.  Yep more pics:

This thing is 100 feet in the air and I don't have a clue how long.

 But what I do know is, you couldn't pay enough to cross it.  I was just very thankful that no train went across it while I was under it :)

All of this for a couple of bags of noodles and a few spices.

It was wonderful!!!!

So 9 hours later we finally found our driveway.

Sunday was a little less eventful, just took about an hour ride on the Harley with dear husband.  That was great too:)

Hugs & Blessings,

Terry