She Wants to Shop

The Shipshewanna Flea Market is only open two days a week, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Yesterday we had rain until noon so we decided not to go.  However, today dawned bright and warm, so off we went!

The entry to the market is through a large auction shed with a dozen or more auctioneers all working different parts of the building, and hundreds of people milling about.  The auctioneers stand on stools and move from one section to another.  The owners of the "stuff" have piled it up, and everything is sold.  Seemed to us that the more rust on the item, the more money it sold for…..

After walking up and down the outdoor aisles for a couple of hours, without much success, we decided to exit the premises.  Donna was looking for a particular woodworking craftsman that she had bought some things from last year, but we didn't see him anywhere, and he wasn't on the directory.  Uh oh…

On the way out, we stopped at Yoder's Meat and Deli Market.  Now, just about every third person that lives in this area is named Yoder.  There are Yoder insurance business's, Yoder auto shops, just about everything that you can imagine. Of the two that are left of the "every third person", one of them is named Miller, and the other one is referred to as "the other brand".  Guess you know where we fit in…

Yoders is cool, with hundreds of cheeses and preserves, specialty sauces, mustards and such, and a complete butcher shop where you can order custom cuts of beef, goat, bison, chicken, veal, and pork, as well as any kind of sausage you could imagine.

As Donna ran into the Blue Gate Restaurant and Bakery, just down the street from Yoders, to get a home made Dutch Apple pie (for later, you understand), I snapped a quick photo of a neat horse and buggy.

Our lunch stop today, late in the afternoon, was at Das Dutchmen Essenhaus, where we enjoyed a buffet in a facility that obviously can seat a great many people.

On the way home to Nappanee, we stopped at the Dime Store in Wakarusa for a bit of salt water taffy.  This store is devoted to nostalgic candies from years past, along with novelties and current candy.  I couldn't pass up these two:

But before I could slip them into the cart, Donna reminded me that bacon (even in candy form) is not on my preferred list.  DagNabIt!