Family Break Part 3

Part 3 continues at Rainbow Hills! A pretty pool of water with a fountain in the middle stood in front of buildings and a gazebo shading some picnic tables. Behind the gazebo was a little bed and breakfast I was told. From the wine tasting room to the B&B structure was a open wooden structure that had more picnic tables under the canopy of trees that surrounded this sight.  We climbed up the stairs to this funky building. Inside looked like an old time bar, small, wooden.  But at one end, there were refrigerators that kept the wine cool for tasting. It was getting hotter. The lady had a German accent. Ray said on Fridays and Saturdays they have steak dinners. They hand you the raw steaks, you pick a table, barbecue it yourself and they bring you the rest of the food to your table.  Yellow Butterfly also offers steak dinners on the same nights. read...

Family Break, Part 1

I’d been visiting with family, playing with my great nieces, going places with my nieces and my sister, sorting through family photos,  attending a funeral, and visiting with high school friends.    Monday of my  trip  was a day to play a real tourist in Ohio! My cousin, Ray, (he’s really my step-cousin but I’m upgrading him to real family because I really like him!) is taking myself, Loretta and Rose (Ray’s mother) to go on some winery tours. When I had told my husband what our plans were for Monday, he chuckled and said “Well, that will be a waste of time!”  Guess he felt that Ohio had little to offer in the way of wines!  I was going to give Ohio the benefit of the doubt and tour some of the country around where I was born and raised and the best part was I didn’t have to be anywhere near the drama.  Selfish you say?  Hell, yes,  and that was what I needed, a break.  I had the morning to myself, got up, made breakfast, had a shower and was ready. read...