Kitchenaid
Leaf peeping is pretty much done. Trees are mostly green and any color change is usually straight to brown and then fall.
Observations on a couple of Fall staples. First, there is no shortage of pumpkins in New England and the Northeastern states. They are everywhere. Every few miles there are stands or front yards or driveways or farm yards or you pick fields filled with pumpkins for sale. And stores all have hundreds of them. In spots, every house has a Thanksgiving display of some sort usually with multiple pumpkins. Makes you wonder what happens to all those that go unsold. Second, corn field mazes are are also abundant. In the west, mazes are a special amusement that require months of planning and preparation and are not very prevalent. Here, corn fields are a way of life. Hundreds and hundreds of square miles of them. No big deal to make a maze. There may be 3,4, or 5 mazes within a few miles of each other around a town.
Today is a layover day. Camped in fairgrounds in Greenville, Indiana. Reason for layover is to visit Kitchenaid Experience (their name for factory affiliated retail store, also has museum) and Kitchenaid factory tour. All the Kitchenaid stand mixers and many of the hand mixers a.re made in the Greenville plant. Last year over two million stand mixers were made here. Neat tour. Right on floor walking down paint, production, and assembly lines dodging forklifts and hustling workers. Everything in one huge building. Very noisy so those on tour are given headsets so guide can explain various sights. Except for the gross casting of the case everything is done in this building even to the point of assembling gear shafts and making whip beaters from wire and raw metal blanks. Very little robotics. None in assembly. Empty case starts at one end of line and goes by about ten people each adding and testing parts. At the end of the line the finished stand mixer and all accessories roll off the line all boxed and sealed and ready to be shipped for sale. Didn’t time time from start to finish but it was not very long.
Fun to see the busy and efficient plant operation and picked up a few tips on proper use of Kitchenaid mixer to get best baking results.
No pictures allowed on assembly floor and forgot to take pictures of small museum area at start of tour so that’s all folks.
Kitchenaid retail store in downtown Greenville.
There are several stables at the fairgrounds that train trotters.
Some pictures from tomorrow 
This one’s for Christina and Roland
Fall in Indiana
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