Month: April 2016
Celebrating Diane’s Fiftieth Birthday
Saturday Evening, April 2 Checking out the menu at General Sutter Inn in Lititz for Diane’s January 1st birthday. Deb looks like she is checking out the ceiling. 🙂 It took awhile for us to find a date that suited everyone – when Diane was visiting from Maine – so we were three months late. We had so […]
Living Hope Native Ministries
Friday evening, April 1 – Yoder’s Restaurant, New Holland, PA. Cerwin and I look forward to this banquet each spring – to spend an evening with friends and to hear about Living Hope Native Ministries. We shared our table with Gary and Orpha Stevens, Ray and Eva Nolt, and Dale and Lois Wolgemuth. The audience is made […]
Pretty and Yellow
Even the sunset had a bit of yellow in it.
Lunch With Our Daughters
Friday Afternoon, April 1 This diner is a good place to meet Deb since she and Roy live an hour away from us. It is a half-hour drive for both of us. Diane ordered something that had a side she didn’t want. She exchanged it for this salad – with hot bacon dressing. We all took samples. […]
Helping Great-grandpa
Friday, April 1 Anthony loves doing anything with sticks, so when Cerwin said that he was going to work in the yard, I got my large wagon. He also put some small logs into Jere’s trailer – from a downed tree. Then he went back to his wagon. When Cerwin arrived with his wheelbarrow, Anthony offered […]
Zig’s Bakery with Diane & Anthony
Friday, April 1 Since Diane wanted to go to a local discount grocery store before going back to Maine, we asked if she would like to go to Zig’s Bakery for breakfast. She liked that suggestion for two reasons: she had never been there, and one of her best – from childhood – friends works there. […]
A Day With Diane & Anthony
Thursday, March 31 Oh what fun to have our oldest daughter Diane here for a few days and then for her to have their grandson, Anthony here, for a day and night. Diane didn’t have to ask me twice if I wanted to go shopping with them. 🙂 The next few pictures are from my […]
Look What I Just Captured!
I missed it yesterday, so kept an eye on them today – and it was during our springtime snow. When I noticed him making strange movements to call her toward him, I waited for the moment. I understand that it is a courtship ritual.
Surprising Jana at Work
Wednesday, March 30 Just as we were finishing supper, Jere called to ask if we wanted to go along with them to surprise Jana for her birthday. (Thankfully we had not eaten dessert!) She was working at Fox Meadows Creamery. Diane (left)Â had just arrived from Maine, so she was pleased to be part of the […]
A Junco & A Wren
Wednesday, March 30 I don’t have any creative thoughts or words tonight – just a few pictures of the two birds that were at our kitchen window feeder when I came up from my basement office on Wednesday afternoon. I think he saw me. But he seemed okay with my camera. When he left, this pretty […]
House Sparrow
Tuesday, March 29 A cute, male house sparrow perched just outside our kitchen window – in great lighting – gave me an opportunity for a few close ups. He is a rather ordinary bird, but I still find him fascinating. He has no clue that he wasn’t created as beautiful as a male cardinal. He just sings the […]
Jana’s 17th Birthday Party
How did that happen? It seems like she should still be a preschooler – but she is now a loving, delightful seventeen-year-old. A “creative” 17. 🙂 Opening her gifts The funny part of the party. I thought she and her dad were doing a selfie until I saw the picture. Jana has some kind of phone […]
Easter at Jere & Kristen’s House
Sunday Lunch, March 27 I enjoyed their festive decorations. Look at the base of this flower arrangement. There were containers of gifts for everyone – from Roy & Deb. This was our gift from Jere and Kristen. The ham before it was cut Brussels sprouts before they were baked Time to eat Candy by Allie […]
Blame
Blame has been going on since the beginning of time. Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the serpent. It continued throughout the Bible. It continued through the ages. It continues today.  Is it God’s fault when His children make a bad choice …when God made it clear in His Word that certain things are bad […]
TFC Lancaster Chapter Dinner Concert
Saturday Evening, March 26 One of the ladies who was overseeing the banquet at Yoder’s Restaurant was pleased to find this photo to direct people to the banquet hall. We arrived three hours early (3 PM). The waitresses were busy setting up for our banquet. A few hours later (6 PM) the room was filled with 653 […]
Midweek Birds & Sunset
Tuesday, March 22 through Thursday, March 24 He looked pretty in the late afternoon sunlight on Tuesday. A pretty sunset on Wednesday night. I was surprised to see a robin at our suet on Thursday afternoon. It’s not often that a robin is seen at our suet. They usually prefer worms.