SMART Muster - Orrstown, PA

May 22nd - Saturday Roxbury, PA SMART Muster

At this point we do not have internet service, so am writing this to post later. We left home on Thursday and traveled four hours south of our home to meet up with the rest of our SMART group. We had about ten rigs show up on Thursday and then more came on Friday. We had a pot luck dinner on Friday night followed by a business meeting. Our Pennsylvania Keystoners are sponsoring The National Muster in September at Centre County Fair Grounds, so our business meeting was long, as many arrangements had to be made on who was going to do what to keep the occupants of 200 rigs busy for a week in September. The whole program sounds interesting and fun for all that attend.

Saturday after a breakfast of Cream of Wheat and blueberries we set out to tour the country side and touring we did up into the mountains and then back to the countryside. Many Amish and Mennonite farms that have been so well tended over the years. Many field of winter wheat some ready for harvest and some just beginning to head out. We even found a Mennonite Cheese Store that we had to investigate and ended up purchasing several different kinds of cheese. I am in hopes that I can made a wonderful casserole of macaroni and cheese.

Tonight we all met at a local restaurant for dinner during a torrent of rain; hence, no campfire tonight. In fact, I have missed all of the camp fires due to an allergy induced asthma attack, so have been very careful to stay in the air-conditioning either in the car or the RV. Preston drove up from Tyrone to go with us to this Muster. He is going to make and donate ceramic bowls, casseroles and tea pots to our National Muster and was anxious to get input on what the members would like to have to use in the Chinese Auction, so he came away with good ideas to help our club. It was really interesting to see how talented many of our members are and how readily they were willing to share those talents in finished products to be used. My daughter, Susie agreed to make a quilt to be used and my other daughter, Krista is going to help make some ceramics to use also. Kris and I have a complete ceramic shop with kiln in my garage and neither of us have been able to get time to enjoy it.