We're Home

Like I said yesterday, we're home, though not without some issues.  It was a 4 hour trip, but mostly on nice rural roads.  After not being in a moving vehicle for 7 months though, it was a little uncomfortable!  We stopped several times so Mrs. F.G. could get a break, but I stayed strapped in my chair.

We were driving through farm country, with a wide variety of barns.  This is a new hog barn under construction.

There were a lot of soybean fields, some nearly ready for harvest.

Lots of corn fields too, this one with a 10 foot strip of Sunflowers around the field,though their blooms are finished now.

A lot of the corn fields are already partly harvested as forage.

A few farms had pumpkins for sale at the roadside.

We stopped at one of our favourite country stores, which started as a roadside stand about ten years ago.  Not only is the store humming with fresh fall veggies, they are building a large new store behind the present one.  We'll be watching to see what this turns into.  The white spots are raindrops on the window.

We drove through several towns, villages and hamlets.  This is an unusual church that still retains its bell tower, in the hamlet of Swinton Park.

We got home to feel very welcome!

Although we don't entirely know who arranged this.