Just about two weeks ago I was driving in Indiana with a car that favored high octane gasoline. Regular was still under four dollars a gallon but high test wasn't so I kind of watched for a price of $4.09 so I could post the preceding drivel. The closest I found was $4.08 and $4.11. A week later, I was again in Indiana and saw a sign advertising regular for $4.09. I took a picture of the sign and posted it with my Beach Boys rip off on Facebook and this site's RSS feed. Another week goes by and I'm now in a car that uses regular unleaded gas and I'm in Ohio. The climbing prices have taken another step and this morning I really did buy gas for $4.09. Giddy up.

Richard Taylor followed with a two in one story about a barn. The first story is about saving a sunken barn with a two foot bow in one wall. That story contains lots of digging, patient jacking, and slow and steady tugging on that bowed wall. The second story involves getting its western end painted by the legendary Harley Warrick, "The Last Mail Pouch Barn Painter". It's also the story of Harley's friendship with the Taylors but the centerpiece is the descriptions and photos of the retired Harley single handedly wrangling ladders and hoists and painting the giant advertisement in a total of six hours. There is also a story about the stories. The painting was done in 1986. Ohio hosted the national LHA Conference in 1997; the only time it's done so. At the conference, Richard was all set to do his slide presentation when the power went out and he spent the next half hour telling his audience what they would have seen if the electricity hadn't failed. Today Richard repeatedly apologized for the dimness of the pictures projected in the half light and I apologize for the dimness of the pictures I took in the half dark. For comparison, here is a picture from that 1997 presentation.

That barn described in the previous panel sets on the east side of US-42 just under a mile after the old road rejoins it. Dick has touched up Harley's twenty-five year old sign but says he's not looking for more work of that sort.

The first interior shot is of the lobby without the ticket counter and gift shop. It is suddenly empty after a group stepped through a side door to begin their "Museum of Christian Martyrs" Bible Walk. A large collection of bibles, including one from 1535, is displayed in the stands in the middle. Beyond them is some impressive folk art. Intricate wood carvings are to the right. The wood carvings are the work of John Burns and most are of religious scenes like The Last Supper but there is also a carving of the American Revolution. The folk art comes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is made from articles donated by parishioners and pressed into a clay like base. There is another interpretation of The Last Supper and I liked Jesus and the Woman at the Well.

In the next to last picture, a guide in period dress is about to lead the group I've become part of on our Bible Walk. The wax figures used in the displays came from a failed "normal" wax museum and people with good recognition skills can probably pick out some of the repurposed celebrities. I didn't do very well. As I mentioned, no photos are permitted in the Bible Walk areas. That last picture is of a couple stationed in the lobby perhaps solely as camera fodder.