A quick post from Kutztown, PA

We came up here for nostalgic reasons, Jan wanted to go to the Kutztown Folk Festival that she hadn't been to since way back in 1973 when she took me before we got married.  We took the horse and wagon.  But mother nature kind of nixed the plan with hard constant rain.  So not to be outfoxed, she decided we should go to the Allentown Farmers Market instead.  We both have fond memories of coming there from, yeah, about the same time frame.  We remembered fresh ground beef that Viv would bring back that we would all eat raw with onion on top, Vern's favorite ring bologna, homemade horseradish ground right in front of you, scrapple and souse, shoo fly pie, produce, etc.

Now I know you can't go back, but we did, and we had a good time, with a few changes.  Can you imagine that, after, dare I say 40 plus years?  They don't grind horseradish there anymore, not allowed:-(  But, it was great, we planned to have breakfast there, and that was super, homemade Amish apple fritters, and we also managed to share a real bagel and cream cheese.

So we got half of a extra wet shoo fly pie, homemade horseradish, made off premises now, apple butter, a bunch of produce, exceptional half sour pickles, lebanon bologna, an order of perogies and onions, and an honest to goodness italian hoagie for our lunch later. So now we are back and holed up in the pouring rain, enjoying a cup of coffee and a slice of magnificent pie, doing absolutely nothing.  What a good day!