antiques and comfort food....

 This afternoon I took my GPP and his brother, who is very interested in antique cars, to visit a friend of mine who has an amazing, museum quality collection of antique steam engines, farm machinery and so much more.  The items in his collection date back as far as the 1860s.  I had estimated about two hours for the visit, because how long can it take to look at two large barns full of gigantic, and smaller antiques.  Three and a half hours later, our host was still pulling out items for us to look at.  Some of these were smaller items like wrenches, corn huskers (evidently people will pay big bucks for these) and other little hand held cast iron tools.  One piece that I really enjoyed was an antique electric toaster, circa 1920, made in France and sporting the niftiest little upright rotating racks to hold the toast.  It was a lovely little gadget.  But thinking of toast brings me to the second half of the afternoon's adventure.  We finally left the museum which one of the guys said reminded him of the Henry Ford Museum, at about 5:45pm.  It was getting dark of course, so it felt later, and we were all hungry, so we headed for a nearby Cracker Barrell Restaurant.  You will probably agree that Cracker Barrell offers the ultimate in comfort food.  I had batter fried fish with green beans, corn muffins (yes, plural) and baked apples. So good.  Remember I said comfort food, not health food.  You can go other places for that.  I did manage to get all through their charming shop without buying candy or anything else. Healthy for my wallet at least.