The Journey

It isn’t often that we receive a visit from our Amish vendors. (Remember, that’s Ahhhmish, as in comfortable furniture) But the owner of the company who builds our Amish gliders came to visit this week from Holmes County, OH. A long journey by train. We were delighted to greet them at the train station on a wonderful sunny day. (Summer finally came to the Northwest) We rented a large van and drove to a high spot in town so they could see mountains, even though they’d passed through Glacier Park in Montana with magnificent mountains. Here, they could see the famous volcano, Mt. St. Helens, and our other snow covered peaks that surround the city of Portland. What a glorious sight of nature!

For lunch we went to a restaurant on the Willamette River and had waterside dining where we enjoyed the antics of the Canada geese and one duck with her ducklings. And delicious seafood too. We tried walked off our meal strolling by some of the shops along the waterfront. Some of us still had room for an ice cream cone. They will be making a scrap book of their trip, using postcards they’ve bought along the way. I took some pictures of where we ate lunch, the geese and bridges of Portland to put in their book.

It was too soon and back to the train station where our friends were to continue on their way to southern California, then Colorado and more mountains. We wish them a safe journey. We thoroughly enjoyed having them as our guests.

AHHH…mish Furniture

It is so comfortable! Like an old shoe you don’t want to throw away. So many people come, have a “sit” in the gliders, or the dining chairs and find that the seat is carved just to fit their bottom. So comfortable. They could sit at the kitchen table and talk with family and friends for a long time after their meal. And well built too. The sales representative, for one of our lines of dining furniture, demonstrated how sturdy the dining chairs are. He turned one over and stood on it. And he’s had plenty of Amish cooking to fill his belt. One customer who bought a glider, breathed a big sigh of contentment before buying it. His biggest problem? Which color, or should he buy both. One for the porch, and one for inside. Ahhhmish.