9/15/14 - But will start with some activities that I had this past week with Ruby.  Ruby had to work on Monday and Tuesday (9/8 and 9/9). Ruby had given me a house key since I planned to run some errands.  When I returned to the house, I could not find the key to the house.  So I ended up with lunch in the RV and sent Ruby a text letting he know my dilemma.  She text me back and told me where there was a hidden key so I could get back into the house.  Later in the afternoon,  I went to visit a first cousin and his wife.  We then met Ruby for dinner at IHOP. This is horrible.  I can't remember what we did on Tuesday or Wednesday.  On Thursday, (9/11) we met up with a friend for lunch.  It was so good to see her.  We also went to an orchard and got three different kinds of apples to be used for various types of food.  It was really interesting since I had never been to an orchard.  On the way to the orchard, we stopped off at a cousin's dairy farm and had a little tour.  Wow, that was wonderful. They milk 800 cows in a day.  They only have about 2 hours a day that they are not milking.  The milk goes straight into a larger tanker that is then picked up by a tractor trailer type of cab.  It was just amazing.

On Friday 9/12 we took the day and went to Charlottesville and had a buffet lunch at Michie's Tavern.  It is very old and had a lot of history.  They had several log type buildings that were little shops so we toured the actually old tavern and walked the villages and browsed in the shops.

                                                   Michie's Tavern - Ruby in white slacks

After that tour, we continued up the road to Monticello which is the home of Thomas Jefferson.  We did a tour of the estate and it also included his gravesite.

Thomas Jefferson Estate