Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Tuesday's Tours

On Tuesday’s tour the highlight was the Warther Museum. Words just can’t describe this place with any degree of accuracy. It’s just a phenomenal display of one man’s carvings. Here’s a picture of his carving of the Lincoln funeral train, done in ebony and ivory.



This is a picture of a single steam engine with over 9,000 parts, again done in ebony and ivory.



This is just one view of the beautiful hills around Sugarcreek.



This is but one of some 30 beautiful showhorses being housed and groomed for showing at the Jacobs Showhorse Stables.



These quarterhorses are owned by others who pay big money to have their horses cared for during their show career. Inside the stables the controls are highly complex. Temperature is maintained at a constant 72 degrees. The stalls are cleaned twice a day. The horses are exercised in a controlled fashion once a day. They’re fed twice a day in measured amounts. Even the length of time the lights are one is controlled. When showtime comes, they’re taken aboard an elaborate trailer to the show site and judged for conformation much like the dog shows that are more publicized.

We also visited another cheese factory, a furniture store, and a radio and TV museum, but only caught a picture of the cheese factory.


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