It's Sunday

 August 1, 2021

Scenic Hills RV Park, Berlin, Ohio

It's a Sunday in Amish Country where they roll up the streets...so to speak..and most everything is closed so.....IT'S MY DAY!!  Dad tossed my ball for me.  Momma tossed my ball for me.  Then Dad took another turn.  What a morning!!  I had visions of an afternoon of play but.....everyone loaded up in the Ram because Momma found some Sunday activities. 

The first stop was in Sugarcreek about 15 minutes away.  Sugarcreek is known as 'Little Switzerland of Ohio' due to the German/Swiss/Amish who settled there.  On the corner of Main Street, there is a GIANT cuckoo clock.  It's as big as a store/shop, but it is just a giant clock which is a tourist attraction for sure.

Faithfully, on the hour and half hour in the spring, summer and fall months, the clock ....well, it doesn't cuckoo....it plays Bavarian Music when the band rolls out on stage which the couple dance to... all mechanical.

Sunday was the perfect day to take in the attraction as parking was plentiful with all the shops closed.  

Aunt Carol noticed another couple who were there to view the clock in action.  The man was wearing a Paradise Oaks T-shirt so she approached them,  They are full timers who winter at Paradise Oaks in Bushnell, Florida.  She was telling them about heading another 15 miles down the road to Warther Museum in Dover, Ohio and they decided to follow us.

Earnest Warther had a passion for carving and a very intelligent/clever mind.  He could take a block of wood and after making 9 cuts, he would have carved a pair of workng pliers.

And then he had a vision that turned out to be the pliers tree.  I forgot how many thousands of cuts it took to carve this one piece of wood into this pliers tree masterpiece.

But his talent didn't stop there.  He reproduced, to scale, trains with attention to detail and moving parts.  Jaw dropping works of art.

Carved out of wood and ivory with precision and care...and no glue.  All the pieces fit with percision and were pressed in place.  

He also carved some very impressive, detailed canes.  What artistry.

Did you recognize Abe Lincoln?  If you look real close, you can see a ball that was carved inside the slatted area. Now how did he do that?

He carved until his late 80's as it was a true passion.

In order to carve, he needed the perfect carving tool so on his forge and anvil, he made carving blades.  When he made a kitchen knife for his mother it led to requests for knives from her neighbors and friends....and from that grew Warther Knives which has been passed down and carried on through several generations.

The son, David has turned his father's passion masterpieces into quite an interesting museum.

 Dave's mother also had a passion.... for collecting buttons which she time consumingly displayed in patterns she created.

Her button passion is also on dispay on the museum property.

She also had a flair for gardening that is still carried on to this day.

  
 

Now if you should ask Momma and Dad about their Sunday, they will probably tell you about the interesting afternoon they had, but if you  should ask me, I will definitely tell you about the fantastic play morning I enjoyed.

I'm Chloe