Fried Pickels

Patti's Settlement in Grand Rivers, Kentucky

Grumpy old men playing checkers.

Patti's is famous for their flower clay pot bread. I love butter. Since it is not healthy I took one for the team and ate all the strawberry butter away from the boys.

And the fried pickles where a hit with Aidan and Ethan because they did not know what to make of it so they kept trying it down to the last three morsels.

Metal plates. Where can we get some of the for the house. So rustic.

Our family in the most decorated room we have ever dined in. The whole place was decorated for Christmas. It felt like a maze.

These were the hostest.

While we waited for desert to arrive the boys and I hunted for little treasures. Here they press a penny into a souvenir.

Desert

Aidan's special treat picked by Kyle. He said "I like it when daddy orders."

Little towns and little boutiques are just my kind of thing. Aidan and Ethan were wired from a Sunday and lolly pop. I went into this shop to look around. The owner asked where my children where because she saw them from inside the window and was excited to have them in her shop. My response was that maybe it would be safer if they stayed outside where they are out of trouble meaning - since her store had all antique glass, Aidan and Ethan were best on the bench outside with their father. "Oh no she exclaimed, get them in here! It is cold outside and they can do no harm...." When I declined again she went outside, picked up Ethan and along followed Aidan into the shop.

Once inside she walked them right to her calender where she showed them pictures of her grandbabies who are two boys about their age. That was such a nice gesture to see that she wasn't a grumpy old shop owner afraid of little boys breaking her valuables.

Murals like this one make little towns unique.

A perfect picture of me and Emmi in a few years. We both have issues with migraines which lead to back problems. Which lead to the start of a phone calls with "I feel so old today..." Boys on a pink tractor. Proof that Kyle and I have done our part for now in raising gender neutral young men.

They like tractors regardless of the color.

Pretty bench belongs in our butterfly garden.