John, your idea of doing a cookout/carry-in sounds great. I'd be
happy to do Brazilian food and I'd love to taste that Texas Beef
Brisket.
I could probably get the Martins Church Pavillion and my brothers' 2
grills. The Pavillion has a nice country outdoors atmosphere (for all
of us who have lived in cities the last 50 years) as well as an
indoor meeting room/restrooms. Martins Mennonite is on Church Road, 3
miles from DHS.
Every time we go back to Ohio, we enjoy visiting Lehmans, the
Thursday auctions and the Swiss Museum in Kidron(our family Bible
printed in late 1500's is there).The stores behind Lehmans are
interesting, especially the international 10,000 Villages. I always
spend hours in Connections (a wonderful store of used goods) and
watch Amish women quilt. We visit Simply Smuckers, a day in Holmes
County, an Indians game, the Outlet stores in Lodi, numerous great
restaurants, Putt 'n Stuff at Riceland (minigolf, water bumper boats,
mini race cars, climbing post, etc) Dunn's showroom. The Science
Museum on the lake front is good, Louie Bromfield's Malabar Farm,
College of Wooster Cultural and Sports events. Of course the best is
to be with family, friends and church.
For lodging, check out Royal Star Inn at Riceland.
I look forward to hearing why DHS-59ers live in 14 states and 2
foreign countries, especially what is the attraction in Texas (4). I
think 5 are connecting to farming--I am very happy about this and
would like to hear how it's changed. How many of us lived on farms
when we graduated? How does our rural background contribute unique
values? I counted 22 with Ohio addresses. We could almost do a
hayride/progressive supper!
Someone mentioned the time posted on our site--it's GMT (Greenwich
Mean Time) and one learns to calculate quickly as you travel. Brazil
is -3 and Dalton is -4 until they go back to EST. (Did anyone else
ever use the terms "fast time and slow time"? Strange!)
Last night we had a Spaghetti Fest--we made, rolled out and cut the
spaghetti and had 6 homemade sauces. We were guests of the Java Users
Group, DFJUG.
We are following the economic crisis and bailout, campaigns and World
Series. I love the question at the bottom of this posting site: "What
language is this post in?" with a choice of 27 languages. Sometime
I'll try out the Portuguese option. Do they have translations?
Have a good day--Betty
