Lake Michigan Summer Vacay 2015: Day 10

Today was my second to last full day back in Rudolph, and while I tried to sleep in, unbeknownst to me, my parents had plans. First, we went to the restaurant in Rudolph (yes, the only one) and had breakfast. I horrified my parents after eating by creating a fart dollar before their eyes. Then we set out for more sightseeing.

A vintage display at the restaurant.

My dad with the specials, and a photobomb by Mom.

Our first destination was to cross the road to Ashbeck Interiors where I visited my elementary school chum, and the proprietor, Justin.

I used Justin's name because, um, publicity?

I bought some cards and visited, revealing my secret desire to go to the "Think Academy" sign and paint "Rudolph Elementary" over it, as a form of old-person protest. We left there, and drove around the country side.

Here is one of the piles of dirt that the dump trucks are creating from some new construction project.

We stopped at another little shop, but didn't buy anything. Then we went home and went through the boxes that had been stored in the old milkhouse. They turned out to be my sister's stuff from college. I later learned that it was my parents that forgot where this stuff was, and not that my sister who forgot all about it.

Here are all the dishes and a few miscellaneous finds from the old boxes.

Among the dishes and the papers were old doll house furniture and photographs of my cousins, who are now in their 20's, as babies.

I took the tiny toilet and sink back to Houston with me.

I believe that after this, I took a nap, or maybe I didn't. Whatever happened, the next picture that I took was of some ham sitting in the fridge. I don't think that it was there, like this, for very long.

I then went out to the pasture, but went back in to get this camera and discovered that my mom's cat was nomming on her latest kill.

I watched my dad on the tractor, moving hay, for a while, then took photos of cows both outside and inside the barn.

Birds often nest in the barn.

It is likely that this was the evening that a neighbor came over to pull one of Dad's tractors out of the mud by the crick, but I do not yet have that video ready to go.