Rest in the Lord and be willing to wait for Him. Psalm 37:7 (NLV)
Wednesday, July 29 Before getting our lunch at the buffet, Orpha (right) asked Uncle Luke (white shirt) to give us an update on his and Willamae life. Luke is the youngest and only living sibling of our eight Sauder parents. They live at Fairmount Homes near Ephrata in a double room where she receives a […]
Tuesday, July 28 When Diane is here from Maine, one of her plans is usually to have their five Pennsylvania grandchildren here for some of the time. When they are here, it gives their mom time to catch up on things she is wanting to do. This time it was garden work, deep cleaning a […]
Monday Evening, July 27 We were looking forward to this evening where we would meet Veli-Pekka, Marjaana, Malin, Magda, and Monika from Finland. Marjaana (in black behind the Igloo) and Kristen met many years ago when Marjaana lived with Kristen and her parents while attending high school in the United States. Jere and Kristen have […]
Monday, July 27 Each summer we help our niece Karen who plants and processes lots of fresh corn as a gift to our church members, neighbors, friends, and others who are dealing with illnesses, accidents, or other incidents. Karen began gathering corn in the early morning, so it was ready for husking by 7:30 am. […]
The second squirrel in this picture was eating at the ground feeder (center bottom) when the other one came to join him. But he chased it away and went back to the ground feeder. Then, to my amusement, I watched as the unwelcome squirrel sneaked in from the back and jumped up on the bench […]
You may remember that I posted about a storm during the July 4th weekend that brought down some branches and slightly damaged our shed. We called All Season Tree Service and told them we would need some clean up and reminded them that we were not an emergency because there was extensive storm damage to […]
Our crape myrtle is almost in full bloom. It is always nice having it bloom in mid-summer when most of the other flowers in our yard are no longer blooming.
Thursday, July 23 We enjoyed an interesting auction at our friend’s (Earl and Arlene) place. Arlene died several years ago, and Earl is in a retirement community home with dementia, thus their children held an auction for the property, household, and lawn and garden items. It has been many years since we have been to […]
It was a warm rainy evening when I took some food garbage out to the woods – for the neighborhood wildlife. The sun was shining and it was raining. I came inside and told Cerwin we will probably soon see a rainbow because of the combination of rain and sun. It is rare that we […]
We have only one Amish family on our road and another one that we can see from our road. This is the same carriage. I was in the back part of the house getting ready for church and didn’t see any others. We saw two families who were walking to church as we drove by. […]
I find it amazing that smoke from Canada can travel the whole way to Southeastern Pennsylvania – and at times with a hint of smoke in the air. Look at the difference just three days before the smoke rolled in.
The events of Thursday and Friday made me think about Ecclesiastes 3:4. There is a time to cry and a time to laugh.There is a time to be sad and a time to dance. Thursday was the time to laugh and have fun swimming with our family. Friday was the time to be sad and […]
Yesterday, July 16, we took our Pennsylvania great grandchildren (and their moms) to Refreshing Mountain for their annual birthday gift. I was pleased that we found a date that suited everyone. June 16 was the only open date that worked. 🙂 It suited Deb and Lydia to go along for extra childcare. I reserved the […]