Book Board Chat

Headed south to Holmes County yesterday (Tuesday) … There are several “cheese houses” (cheese factories) in Amish “country” … they all have an adjacent shop that sells their cheese plus other traditional “Amish” meat and food products … you can see the cheese house where I always go at http://babyswiss.com/… The Guggisberg store is about the size and shape of an old fashioned diner … and their back wall is one long window that “opens” onto the factory … and you can watch the cheese being made … the fascinating thing is that everything is stainless steel and spotlessly clean … the clerks are dressed in traditional Swiss folk garb …

Holmes County is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ohio … and people are constantly arriving … and they fill Guggie’s to try the samples and buy the fresh product … the smart folks arrive with coolers in their trunks to keep the cheese fresh or Guggies will sell you an insulated bag and ice to get you home … yesterday there were a couple of Amish men across the road … with their horse and buggies “parked” and the men were just sitting there … one selling homemade bread boxes and the other was selling quilts … both were getting business …

There is really too much to see and do in just one day … but … I also stopped at three antique malls … one book sale in a buggy making factory … I bought eight books … I stopped in Trail, Ohio to buy some Trail Bologna … which is a ring bologna with a very distinctive taste … great with crackers … I had lunch in a restaurant in Charm, Ohio … the waitresses are all Amish young women dressed in their long somber colored dresses and crisp white caps … and … LOL … they top it off with Nike shoes … a very strange combination … the day went by very fast and I wound my way back home “dodging” Amish buggies and cutters … getting back to “civilization” and arriving after dark