AMISH COUNTRY

Our motor home went into the shop at 9am, so we loaded some stuff, and the traveling beagle into the car, and drove the 20 or so miles to the Amish town of Shipshewana. During the summer, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the Flea Market & auction is filled with thousands of people. As Flea Markets go, this one has a lot of the cheap stuff from China, but there are a lot of local vendors who sell their arts and crafts, plus a large contingent of folks selling locally grown produce. After strolling through a few of the aisles, we headed over to Yoders Meat and Cheese store, where we always buy some of the Amish butter cheese which is yummy. The photo of the house above, is an Amish farm that is owned by a family we met 6 years ago, when we were traveling the Drag Race Circuit. Back in 2003, we got a tour of the house and farm, and it was fascinating to see how innovative the Amish are, when it comes to living a very normal life without electricity. The photo of the bulk store shows the Amish preferred means of transportation, a horse & buggy. Patty went into the store, while I watched families come and go in their buggies and on their bicycles. We got back to Duncan RV Repair in the mid afternoon, and found that there were indeed a few things wrong with our problem child refrigerator. This latest episode revealed that both fans and thermal switches, that are supposed to pull air past the coils, were defective. We also discovered that Monaco didn't baffle the cabinet correctly when the coach was built, so Duncan pulled the refer out of the cabinet, and rebuilt the back wall to the proper clearances, so that air is forced over the coils, hopefully,

cooling them a lot better in the process. It's a wonder that the refer worked at all. As it was getting dark, we took Sami for a walk, and surprise.......we watched fireflies darting around the field next to where we are parked. This took us back to a weekend in 2002 or 03, when we had the Harley Drag Race Merchandise trailer at a Harley Dealer near Columbus, Ohio. Back then, we also experienced fireflies for sort of the first time, and it was fascinating then, as it was last night. Oh, the little things in life, right? Today, the new parts are supposed to be installed, and we should be out of here tomorrow. Notice I said supposed and should.