We love to visit the "dump site" in back of our building and have found some very nice and useful things. The lamp was the only light in our bedroom and came in very handy. We also found lots of candles for our 72 hour kits.


Our kitchen is kept clean by the broom and mop we found. You can't imagine the nice serving dishes and glassware that was thrown away. We took most of it, and anything else we find that is good but not useable by us, to the Salvation Army Thrift Store.


The picture adds to the atmosphere in our apartmet because "nice matters".


Baskets for magazines and to carry most things are very useful. We keep the stroller in the car. It is good when we have too many groceries to carry.

Where does one put all the keepable lessons? I thought, "A file would be nice." Well the very next day we were coming home and there on a neighbors lawn was a desk and a file cabinet. We rushed our groceries home and when we got back another couple was eyeing our find. They were interested in the desk - so we took the file. It fit perfectly.


Yesterday I was working on two lessons and the pile of books was unmanageable. I thought, "If I only had a little table that could go next to my chair." Well, this morning there it was. Couldn't be better. It's about 18" high and as you can see it holds a variety of study materials within easy reach.

At Zone Conference last week the sisters from Chardon Branch furnished our lunch. They had a most wonderful sliced tomatoes they had purchased from the Amish in Burton. Since we teach Insitiute in Chardon on Wednesdays we decided to make a day of it and see the sights. This was the first indication we found the right area.

It was fun to see buggies parked at the stores and horse droppings across the parking lot.


Wal-Mart had nice covered buggy parking areas.


Since it was a nice sunny summer day not very many farmers were in town. The produce stand we visited was doing a booming business.

Yes, we're in Amish country.

We had an authenic lunch at Mary Yoder's. We had a hard time finding it and asked two little ladies. They gave us directions and then said, "It's really expensive, but, you it will be OK if you go there once."

We had noodles on mashed potatoes smothered with chicken gravy. It sounder gross but Martha Mae, our server, said it was delicious - and it was. It filled us up and after a couple hours we had room for a Blizzard at Dairy Queen.

What a great day!

The Middlefield Cheese factory is famous for its Swiss cheese. We went through the museum and saw the film on cheesemaking. Elder Millet liked the sharp Swiss and I went for the mild. I think I like his best. The factory is on Nauvoo Road. It is neat that an Amish community would chose a Hebrew name for its street.