Well…actually it is sliced bread!
I just discovered a bakery that I will probably be buying bread from on a weekly basis. I have been trying different breads from the grocery store trying to find a great bread that wasn’t full of artificial sweeteners and preservatives. I’ve been making a weekly trip to the Pearl Alley Farmer’s Market to pick up my produce (from the CSA program we signed up for this year), and Great Harvest Breads of Pickerington, Ohio is always offering free slices of bread as a sample. One slice and I was hooked. Great taste, great texture, and with a simple ingredient list I can get excited about. I can’t wait to try all the different varieties they offer.
The past weekend we drove up to Wisconsin for a memorial service for Kurt’s father who died in February. Kurt grew up in Pound, WI, or as he likes to say: “I was one of the last people to grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting.” Having not made a significant visit back to his stomping grounds in about 20 years, the memorial service provided a good excuse for us to visit.
Things have changed, of course: new buildings here, missing buildings there, new highway here, etc. Many of the farms Kurt grew up around are no longer active. Many areas are even being taken over by the adjacent forests. A barn on one of his family’s plots of land was almost completely hidden by trees (of which there were none when Kurt left). The one-room school house that he attended is still standing, but abandoned (see below).
The service itself was part memorial service, part family reunion, part church potluck, and was mostly for the benefit of the extended family and church friends.
We decided to take the scenic route back and drove over the top of Michigan, and over the Mackinac bridge, a suspension bridge connecting Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.
We also stopped in at a mega “Christmas” store, possibly the largest in the world, in Frankenmuth, MI. It was truly ginormous.
Total miles driven round-trip: 1500.
