More on the weekend.

We took a drive again too on Saturday. With gas being under two dollars a gallon here now, driving around is some of the cheapest entertainment we can find.

We drove past the ever-present farmland of course...

On the way to the Swiss Pantry in Belvidere where they were having some kind of annual 'event'. The place was packed!

The Swiss Pantry is a organic/natural food place owned and operated by a group of local Mennonites. They have just about any kind of food item that is impossible to find at the local Kroger.

They also sell donuts and barbecue?

Here's the fam sampling the goodies.










I also saw a car I want: A fully restored mid to late '40's Chevrolet Deluxe Coupe:

On the way back to Winchester, we passed a not-so-authentic Mennonite 'driving' a horse-drawn wagon down the highway.

After some errands, we found ourselves on the other side of the county, passing the other major man-made lake in our area: Woods Reservoir:

Incredibly, even from this distance, the Cumberland plateau looms in the background.

We made it back home in time to catch some football highlights and have a nice family dinner together.

Unusally, I got in bed at a decent hour... and then didn't sleep well. I had a thousand thoughts racing through my mind. And as I struggled to sleep, I had the strangest mix of dreams and half-conscious thoughts: Koheleth and Robert Johnson having a conversation, me driving a Chevy through the Mississippi Delta long before I was born, Mennonites and Presbyterians attending church together, my wife becoming an ordained minister, my children all grown up with kids of their own...

Whatever all this means, it caused me to get out of bed in the wee hours of the morning and watch the sun rise while my family slept soundly.

At least I got some nice pix:















And as I watched the sky slowly brighten on World Communion Sunday, I thought of the billions of people all around the world - some already up and going about their day's business, some dying and some being born, some laughing and some crying in despair...

And some were still tucked tightly into their warm beds having crazy dreams of their own...