Had to stop here first though it was on the way, and not far from Dave’s house. The Alpine Pantry, a bakery/meat shop/store run by the Mennonites. Woody has been there several times to buy bacon and bread, I had not and Woody knew I would love to visit it.
Their in-house bakery offers all types of bread, pies, cinnamon buns, apple dumplings, and many other delightful delectables. The bread is sliced, if you prefer, while you wait. The bacon is excellent, sliced at your request. The meat shop also offers all kinds of cheeses, and other items that one would expect to find in a meat shop. The store offers everything from home made jellies, many sugar free candy items , baking items, hand sewn aprons, bun cosies, etc., as well other items too numerous to mention. Mennonites here all dress according the old Mennonite style, ladies in long cotton dresses with bonnets; the men in black or brown pants with suspenders, a dark coloured shirt, and usually a black hat. The store is very, very clean, well kept, very nicely laid out and a real pleasure to shop in, not costly and I would recommend it to anyone. I bought some cinnamon buns with real butter icing! You just cannot walk in there and smell all the goodies, and walk out with none of them! Woody picked up bacon, which we needed.
Okay, now we are on our way!
The Road Kill Café is Born
During hunting season of 1984, Barbara Snider decided to go into business in Artemas, Pennsylvania. She had a building constructed and gasoline pumps installed and opened a grocery and gas station facility where she saw a need for just such a place. Early on, she placed a couple of picnic tables in the far side of the store and prepared food, especially homemade pies for the hunters. She has always accommodated the hunters, even their hours, and has therefore been known to open her store in the wee hours of the morning so that they would set off with a hot meal under their belts.
Later in 1995, Barbara decided to build an addition to the existing grocery store and make a restaurant. People from far and wide are familiar with the Road Kill Café in Artemas. The restaurant can accommodate eighty people at a time, and on any given Thursday, her “big” day, she estimates that they serve about five hundred customers. The food is excellent and the prices are more than reasonable. She is well known for her homemade pies, which causes her to stay up all hours on every Wednesday to bake fresh and have ready for her Thursday menu of barbecued ribs, macaroni salad, green beans as the main entrée. Folks travel long distances for a meal at the Road Kill!
The name of Barbara’s establishment came about when someone spray-painted an old barn board and stuck it up on the roof of the porch. This was before the addition of the actual restaurant, yet people were eating there on a pretty regular basis. The sign read Road Kill Café and to this day is still known as such.
Within the last couple of years, Barbara has added cabins and campsites to her line of business. These accommodations are available for anyone who reserves them, but are always full to capacity during hunting season or whenever a big local construction project is underway.
Below is the menu the cafe is known for and freely given to the patrons. I scanned it so you could enjoy it. Click on the pictures if you want an easier read, do take the time to read it, well worth the chuckle. Note: probably not a good idea to read to children that love animals though!
We were trying to capture all the different shades of green, the sun and clouds were having a fight with the clouds winning, the light is not good.
I just cannot get enough pictures of these hills and valleys, they are so gorgeous!
On the way home, Woody helped a neighbour of Dave’s out. Just as we turned onto the road leading up to Dave’s house, we encountered a fellow that was stuck, Woody stopped and helped him out, there was barely room for the truck to sneak by between the loader and the building so he could hook up and pull him out.
Woody had to drive part way into the building to actually pull the little loader out of the ditch. 
The Road Kill Café is Born
During hunting season of 1984, Barbara Snider decided to go into business in Artemas, Pennsylvania. She had a building constructed and gasoline pumps installed and opened a grocery and gas station facility where she saw a need for just such a place. Early on, she placed a couple of picnic tables in the far side of the store and prepared food, especially homemade pies for the hunters. She has always accommodated the hunters, even their hours, and has therefore been known to open her store in the wee hours of the morning so that they would set off with a hot meal under their belts.
Later in 1995, Barbara decided to build an addition to the existing grocery store and make a restaurant. People from far and wide are familiar with the Road Kill Café in Artemas. The restaurant can accommodate eighty people at a time, and on any given Thursday, her “big” day, she estimates that they serve about five hundred customers. The food is excellent and the prices are more than reasonable. She is well known for her homemade pies, which causes her to stay up all hours on every Wednesday to bake fresh and have ready for her Thursday menu of barbecued ribs, macaroni salad, green beans as the main entrée. Folks travel long distances for a meal at the Road Kill!
The name of Barbara’s establishment came about when someone spray-painted an old barn board and stuck it up on the roof of the porch. This was before the addition of the actual restaurant, yet people were eating there on a pretty regular basis. The sign read Road Kill Café and to this day is still known as such.
Within the last couple of years, Barbara has added cabins and campsites to her line of business. These accommodations are available for anyone who reserves them, but are always full to capacity during hunting season or whenever a big local construction project is underway.
Below is the menu the cafe is known for and freely given to the patrons. I scanned it so you could enjoy it. Click on the pictures if you want an easier read, do take the time to read it, well worth the chuckle. Note: probably not a good idea to read to children that love animals though!
On the way home we took some pictures, the scenery is breath taking in this area.
We were trying to capture all the different shades of green, the sun and clouds were having a fight with the clouds winning, the light is not good.
I just cannot get enough pictures of these hills and valleys, they are so gorgeous!
On the way home, Woody helped a neighbour of Dave’s out. Just as we turned onto the road leading up to Dave’s house, we encountered a fellow that was stuck, Woody stopped and helped him out, there was barely room for the truck to sneak by between the loader and the building so he could hook up and pull him out.
Woody had to drive part way into the building to actually pull the little loader out of the ditch. Just as Woody was getting set up to pull the loader out a friend of Dave's had seen the delima from the road as he was driving by, he came up the other driveway into Dave's place (he has 2 entrances to his place) and came down to help out. Everyone in this area is so very friendly, no matter where we drive on these little country roads as people pass they will always wave or if they are out working in their yards they always wave. Of course the speed limits on the small country roads is anywhere from 20 mph to 40 mph so one is never in a hurray! We stood around visiting for a time then headed up the hill to Dave's.
As soon as we arrived home we took Oreo for a walk, then Woody took the wood he had cut from the burl on the tree over to the shop to be cut into usable size pieces. Dave had arrived home while we were walking Oreo so upon Woody’s return he and Dave worked on the bow and arrows.
The cutline you see on the hill (across the field) divides PA and Maryland, we are on the PA side. Just past the green field is Flintstone Creek, from our vantage point we can hear it running such a peaceful sound. Flintstone Creek is heavily fished, we always see vehicles stopped in all the little pull outs. 
Hey just one more picture before we return home from our walk!
I of course could not wait to download the pics and get them ready to upload to the blog. Woody returned home all excited, the bow was just about ready for a try out. It wasn’t much longer and Dave came knocking on the side of the fifth, hollering through the window, “Can Woody come out to play”? Dave is such a character! Of course, they went out to try the bow! Woody loves it, although they found some fine tuning still needs to be done, which they expected to be the case. Woody also says that he will have to practice lots to be ready for his Africa trip. We finished the evening off visiting friends in our favourite chatroom.
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