A Wonderful Time in Intercourse, East Earl and Denver, PA

We love this area so much. Have I said that enough???? Madonna and Jim came up on Saturday and spent the day with us. It was so great to see them again. Madonna and I were like a couple of magpies talking, sharing and having a great time. We at in the MH for a while and chatted and Bentley of course wanted to be the center of attention. Jim provided him with some nice scoochies, which meant Bentley would never eave his side.

They wanted us to plan the day, so we decided to take them to some of the quilts shops in the area. Madonna has been doing a little quilting and the only shop she had visited here was one of the most disappointing for me so I selected 3 that were plentiful in fabrics. The first stop was The Old Country store in downtown Intercourse.
               

It's a fantastic shop with lots of local items for sale in the front, hand made local quilts in the right side of the store and in the back, patterns, notions and thousands of bolts of fabric. I love this shop. They used to have a quilt museum upstairs, but now have 2 longarm machines up there.
Right before I left home I got an email from them saying they had the kits for Lori Holt from Bee In My Bonnet, new sew a long Granny's Garden. I almost never buy kits, but this one was so cute and it was applique which I love. I decided this would be my vacation treat to try to work on in the MH.

Both Madonna and Jim were impressed with the shop and next time they are up this way will definitely want to visit. The next shop was right across and down the street. Zooks/Sauders Fabrics. This used to be 2 separate store with Zooks in Intercourse and Sauder out in the country downstairs in a basement. They had the same owner and so they merged into the same space. They didn't seem to have a much fabric as before, probably due to lack of space, but it was plenty. The front area was $5 a yard and the back $8.50. I didn't see anything I needed except for downstairs where the Amish shop. I needed some embroidery floss for a project and they had all of it along with any items you might need for general sewing along with Amish underwear, linens Amish clothing fabric and a place to park your horse and cart while shopping.

Next, we headed to Bird In Hand Restaurant for lunch. It was very good. They had a buffet, but we decided to order off the menu.

Next stop was in Denver, PA and Burkholder Fabrics. It was a nice drive and in the country (what else)? https://www.360lancaster.com/Shopping/QuiltingandFabric/BurkholderFabrics.html
This is another shop with thousands of bolts of fabric, lots of patterns and tons of notions and rulers. I saw 2 of Kathy Skomps patterns there. David found a Judy Niemeyer pattern that he liked, so now he has a new project.

After this we went to Lapps Valley Farm which was nearer the CG. We go to Lapps every time we are here and love the high cream content ice cream, the gardens and atmosphere. It's always fun to see the new baby calves and watch them milk the cows at 4:30 in the afternoon.

While we were finishing our ice cream a little kitty jumped up on the table and David gave him the last of his ice cream. Kitties need ice cream too.

                  Back at the MH it was time to say good bye to Madonna and Jim. Wish we could see                              them more often.

                            On Sunday everything is closed except for the area south of us which has 2 big outlet malls. We rode around down there and came back. Nothing we needed, but a chance to get out and about. The heat here has been horrible 92 with heat index of 100. We had to wait until late in the day to sit outside at all.

               This is the new garden flag we had made for camping with our names on it.

 On Monday we made a final run to Shady Maple Market for a few items we needed. On the way we passed his sign. Too Funny.

  For dessert on our last night we had apple dumplings with ice cream. I think I've gained 20 lbs already. UGHH it's going to be BAD when I get home.

I am just so sad to be leaving here. Next time we have to stay and week or more.