Dave's Place in Delphos, OH

Dave's Place, on Sterling Road near Delphos, is (yay!) not in a strip mall.  It's not near a major highway.  It's not really a restaurant-- it's my brother-in-law's house.  But it's a great place to be!  Dave and his wife Sandy have all the family over once a year, and the place is great for guests.  They have a 150' x 30' swimming pond (as we passed through the countryside we saw a number of these) with a sandy bottom, a shallow wading area, and a deep part for diving.  There are two big decks and a giant float on which to laze and drift while leisurely guzzling your beer, which is great when ya have great nephew Uriah to act as cabana boy/beer man so you don't have to leave the float except to pee, and not even then for some of us!  (Just kiddin', Dave!)  The whole place is surrounded by corn fields-- there're two neighboring houses about a quarter mile away, but otherwise there aren't any neighbors to be disturbed by your music, or your partygoers, or your gunshots (so Dave should remember that if he ever gets the notion to come home drinkin' with lovin' on his mind....)  Dave is a restaurateur by profession, so naturally he knows how to cook and put out a spread, and OH! the apple pies were DA BOMB!