Panera Bread / Dade City, Florida
Saturday,
January 24, 2015
55
F, Rain—then sunny
It
rained all night and we thought it was a tropical storm based on the noise on
our metal roof. It
Turned
out to be just an all night and morning rain----no floods! We got up early to go to the
TRR
volunteer firefighters’ Pancake Breakfast.
We
headed to Blue Jay Park on the other side of Dade City after breakfast to visit
my friends from high school, Ron and Ginny W. (they are TK’s friends too), who are
staying in Florida for three months.
We decided to go to the Zephyrhills Depot Museum where we learned that Zephyrhills was originally Abbott, Florida. The area was known for its pure water and Zephyrhills water was bottled and has been on the market since the early 60s!
Ron, Ginny, and Janie at the Depot Museum
After lunch at Sunrise, we drove to Pioneer Florida Museum and Village in Dade City. We enjoyed learning some Florida history through an 1860s homestead, farm machinery, a citrus packing plant, a United Methodist Church (1800s), a one room school house (mid 19th century), the cane sugar syrup/molasses making process, a train depot with a telegraph room, and a barn full of phaetons, surreys, and other carriages. My favorite parts were the kitchen separate from the homestead, the citrus industry timeline, and learning that after the cane sugar sap is gathered from the cane the syrup is made in the same way as maple syrup!! Ron was very knowledgeable about the old farm equipment so we learned a lot!
TK and Janie at Florida Pioneer Village
Kitchen at a mid 19th century homestead at the Pioneer Village
We took Ron and Ginny back to Blue Jay. We really enjoyed their company. TK and I stopped at Panera to upload part of the blog. Back at TRR, we discovered that Mary Lou had made tasty red velvet cupcakes, a nice snack!
TK’S TAKES: It was nice to see our friends.
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