🌞Day 42 starts with a cool, sunny morning. Pulled out of campground at 8:50am. A Marathon 🏃♂️🏃🏻♀️is going on that has started by the camp store! We were detoured through the city due to a lot of runners! First stop is at the Brite N Clean Laundromat 🧺 4 loads later = $20.00! 11:10 am and Diet Coke’s 🥤 in hand from the EZ Mart and now we have reset the button & ready to explore! 81* at 11:55! So we’re going east on East 5 mile Road! 🤣 Very dense National Forest! 🌳 🌲 🌳 Lots of Hay & corn fields and lots of horses! We started seeing Amish road signs when then we passed an Amish Family in a horse driven carriage and they all waved to us. Then we passed a Dollar General and out front there were 3 horse driven carriages parked. We continued seeing large hay fields with rolled hay, & corn fields for as far as we could see. 1:20pm it’s 83* and we haven’t seen any speed limit signs today…only Do Not Pass and Pass with Care! Michigan has a “55 mph” standard!1:30pm we arrived in Gladwin to our friends Gary & Kay’s! They greeted us at the end of the road on their ATV and guided us up the back country road, through the dense trees and onto their property. Their “cabin” – AKA a beautiful house, sits on 52 acres, with lots of beaver ponds, trails and deer blinds set up for hunting. We parked Ruby along side the house….and what a level site! 😂
It was so great to see them again! This time in Michigan not Florida, Hawaii, Texas, or Caribbean Islands! We got a tour of house then sat on their back porch for Happy Hour….Gary style…in mugs! 🍵 Then Gary took Tim on the ATV all around the property and Kay showed me around by foot. The shooting range, family hunting cabin, deer blinds, kills fields, food plots and more. Not knowing the first thing about hunting, this was an eye opener for sure. Then it was my turn on the ATV! Only one other person lives near them out in the woods! 🌳🌲Gary announced it was coffee time…it’s only 3:30….I don’t drink coffee but I participated, for it was Bailey’s & Peppermint Scnapps! 😋 Delicious! We sat around talking, had dinner, more talking till 11:30pm! Time for bed. 💤 We traveled 118 miles today.
Sunday ~ OMG 52* and 🌧️ raining! I got up early and joined Kay in the house and we enjoyed our hot tea & coffee. Tim slept in then joined us in the house. A real shower never felt so good! Had lots of room, didn’t have to worry about running out of hot water or filling the grey tank like we’ve lived with the past 43 days. Unfortunately it rained all day and the temperature stayed at 55* with a cool, chilly wind that cut right through you. At one point in the day, it was just drizzling, so Gary & Tim went out to cut these 3 trees down that had fallen and were leaning over into the path, so unbeknownst to Gary, Tim travels with a sawzall and had that all cut up in a few minutes. That was our excitement for the day. 👏
We relaxed,talked & enjoyed each other all day inside where we were dry & warm. I made a charcuterie board in the afternoon, which we throughly enjoyed. At one point for a short time we all got our tablets 💻 out and relaxed in the living room. 3:30pm it’s coffee time! Yes please! 🙋🏻♀️ 7:30pm we started dinner. Still raining outside and the temperature now outside was 48*. Our heater is working overtime in the RV. We called it a night finally around 11:30pm. No traveling done today! 🙅🏻♀️
Amish – 373,620 population in 2022 according to the Old Order Amish Founder Jakob Ammann in Switzerland. Large populations found in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, with notable populations in Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, & Wisconsin. Some in Ontario, Canada. Their region is Anabaptist, and scriptures from the Bible. Their language is Pennsylvania Dutch, Amish High German, Bernice German, & English. They are closely related to Mennonite churches, a separate Anabaptist denomination. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, Christian pacifism and slowness to adopt many conveniences of modern technology, with a view neither to interrupt family time, nor replace face-to-face conversations whenever possible, and a view to maintain self-sufficiency. The Amish value rural life, manual labor, humility and Gelassenheit (submission to God’s will).
Although most Amish will not drive cars, they will hire drivers and vans, for example, for visiting family, weekly grocery shopping, or commuting to the workplace off the farm, though this too is subject to local regulation and variation. A horse and buggy can only sustain 10 mph over an extended distance, and thus is impractical for emergencies. The Amish are not permitted to travel by airplane as air travel is regarded as too modern. They are restricted to use a telephone! Signs erected in areas with Old Order Amish, & Old Order Mennonite alert motorists to the presence of horse-drawn vehicles.
Hay Rolls- ton bales can weigh up to 1,500 pounds….hay is grass, legumes or other herbaceous plants that have been cut & dried to be stored for us as animal fodder, either for farce grazing animals raised as livestock…..cattle, horses, goats, sheep and smaller domestic animals.
A hunting blind, hide or machan is a concrete device or shelter for hunters or gamekeepers, designed to reduce the chance of detection by animals. There are different types of blinds for different situations, such as deer blinds and duck blinds. Some are exceedingly simple, while others are complex. The legality of various kinds of blinds may vary according to season, state and location.
A food plot is a planted area set aside to act as a supplementary food source for wildlife. The term was coined by the U.S. hunting and outdoor industries and food plots are most commonly planted for game species. The best time to plant a food plot is in spring or fall, depending on the crop and when you want the best forage results. Soybeans, peas, sunn hemp, clover and sunflowers can be planted in the spring, while brassicas, oats, turnips, and radish should be planted in the fall.
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