R & R

The old farmer's wife received a gift certificate to a local Bed and Breakfast for planning and managing a wedding reception for a friend.  We needed to use it before harvest, so on a Thursday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, we headed to Mossville to the Old Church House Inn.  We enjoyed the unique and comfortable accommodations and the gourmet breakfast they served us.  Since we were so close, we decided to tour Chillicothe and Three Sisters Park.  I think it was the first time I was in Chilli since High School sports. We discovered a used book store in town; Waxwing Books in the stately old Carnegie Library building.  We will probably drive back sometime when we have more time to browse.

We hadn't taken a summer vacation besides the large "Family Vacation" in about four years.  We wanted to go somewhere within a days drive and with a cooler climate.  We chose Door County, Wisconsin for a five day getaway.  We took our kids camping there in 1993, and we were looking forward to going back.  We rented a little VRBO cabin near Ephraim and spent our days relaxing, eating, touring, hiking and biking in Peninsula State Park, and shopping.  We found a used bookstore in Fish Creek, smoked fish in Gill's Rock, and pure maple syrup at Jorn's Sugar Bush in Egg Harbor.  It was a cool week and we kept our jackets on for most of it, so it was a nice respite from typical August heat.

Our cozy cabin in the north woods.

Cana Island Lighthouse.

Goats on the roof of Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay.

We toured the Great Lakes tug, the "John Purves" at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.

The Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in Peninsula State Park.

"Torch", the Boil-master, putting the finishing touches on the food kettle at our fish boil at The Old Post Office Restaurant in Ephraim.

View of the Ephraim harbor from Peninsula State Park.

    

Door County shoreline in Peninsula State Park.

As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
John 21:9