Sunday, August 19, 2012

Smuckers

The campground really comes to life on the weekends.  During the week, we have full-timers who pull in for a night or two. They are quiet.  The weekends bring families with kids and dogs. The full-timers have dogs, but they seem quieter for some reason.  This weekend has to be the most dogs we have seen.  There is one family with six small dogs....six yappy dogs.  There are several people with poodles.  The worse is a family with two beagles. Their bark is more of a scream.  It sounds like someone is trying to kill them. It's really bad at 6 a.m. when they bark at us.  This morning, they saw us and started their screaming.  I started whining and then we heard coyotes barking.  Mama was scared we would start rooing.  That would not be good at 6 a.m.  Mama is always happy when the park clears out during the week and we can walk around without having dogs bark at us at every corner.

Yesterday, Scout and I were in the dog park and Scout decided to run.  Well, I decided it looked like fun.  Mama was trying to get us to stop, but she couldn't yell at us because it was 6 a.m.   It was so much fun.  We haven't had a run since we left home.  Mama is scared we will get hurt, but we have to be dogs, don't you think?  Later, we took a walk and we were so good according to Mama.  We just walked along without pulling or having to be pulled. Maybe the run did us good. We walked past this one trailer and a guy yelled "THERE IS A LADY WALKING TWO GREYHOUNDS, COME QUICK!"  LOL

The folks visited the Smuckers store and museum today. Smuckers makes jams, jellies and ice cream toppings. They own several companies such as Hungry Jack, Pillsbury, Crisco, Dunkin Donuts, Jif, Flogers, Eagle Brand, Knotts Berry Farm, Martha White and others.  You can see all their brands here.  The folks planned on eating at their cafe. Mama tried to find reviews on it, but nothing came up.  It turns out that it is not much of a cafe. They basically serve pizza.  They really should think of opening up a real cafe there.  They could serve homemade biscuits with all their jams and jellies. They have enough brands that they could make just about anything.  They really are missing out by not doing that according to Mama.
The Smuckers Store and Museum

This is what they made apple butter in when they started out.

A wall of jars.

Chandelier made out of jars.

View of the store.

Cute owl things that are for sale.

More Owl Things


Pillsbury Dough Boy

Leaving Smuckers
Mama said it was fun visiting the store. The musuem wasn't real exciting or big, but it showed the history of Smuckers and that was interesting.  They did buy a few things. Mama saw some ice cream toppings that she just had to have.  One is pecan in syrup. She has not seen that in the store, but she doesn't normally look at ice cream toppings, so it might be quite common.  We need ice cream to try them out. Dad bought some peanut butter.

Since they decided not to eat in the cafe, they had to find another place for lunch. They were in Amish country, so they chose an Amish restaurant.  It was a little pricey, so they chose to just have sandwiches instead of a full meal or the buffet. They were not impressed at all, but it's probably because they ordered hamburgers at an Amish restaurant. It is probably not their speciality. LOL

The Amish restaurant had a gift shop and Mama was tickled because they had greyhound items.
A sign for our RV.

A notepad
I don't know why they think greyhounds look like Scout, but apparently they do.

The folks went out to dinner, but our post is getting long, so we will talk about that tomorrow.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Happy The Heater Is On This Morning Since It Is Chilly

8 comments:

  1. I bet Scout was smirking when she saw the sign and notepad. Chilly in the morning? Can't believe summer is almost over.

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  2. Mommy says that Pecan stuff is not sold in stores here either! That is really cool about the Amish place. We have lots of them here in Wisconsin, and they are VERY pricey according to Mommy. Everything they make is usually very yumms but their real good at the baked goods!

    ~Mason

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  3. I would have to say that YES a dog has to run sometimes, makes life much nicer for all.
    Blessings,
    Goose

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  4. We are not fans of small yappy dogs or weekend visitors here. We have both and neither are nice. I'm surprised Smucker's doesn't have a cafe too. It would be perfect for them. Very cool that the Amish place had greyhound items.

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  5. Your mum must be glad when the weekend is over and all the crowds go home again.
    We think your run did you good too, it is a good time to run when it is early and nobody is around.
    That chandalier made of jars is really cool and the owl things are very sweet. We like your greyhound sign.
    Dip Bridge and Elliot x

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  6. Mom says she loves Smucker's! It's probably a good thing that it isn't close by us. Are you guys going to go visit the Longaberger place while you're there? Mom and Dad used to stop there on the way back from Dewey and they got some good pictures of Treat and Hawk there next to some giant baskets. Anyway, I think it would be fun to see all that stuff at the Smucker's place and do some taste testing.

    Of course people were excited to see you! It's like meeting royalty, you know! ;)

    Bunny

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  7. Very neat. I know I would enjoy this. I'm surprised too that they didn't have a more unique cafe. Seems like a no-brainer. Wow, you hardly ever see Greyhound things. That would be very tempting, especially since they look like Scout.

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  8. Nice greyhound swag! And I like that Smucker's chandelier. Very cool.

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