Rest in the Lord and be willing to wait for Him. Psalm 37:7 (NLV)
Monday, September 21 I enjoyed the quiet, ordinary beauty of watching this house finch (we have lots of them) eating from our graniteware dipper in the light of the early evening sun. I brought the colander and dipper feeder close to the kitchen window after the hummingbirds headed south a few weeks ago – and […]
Sunday, September 27 Sunday School Revealed Love – Genesis 45:1-8, 10-15 Teacher – Bob Copenhaver God had prepared Joseph for just a time as this. Do we see the needs around us? Do we hear the calls of people with needs? Oh, God make us an instrument of your peace. Everyone wants to be part […]
Sunday Evening, September 20 This year our church picnic was held outside in the parking lot at church due to COVID 19 – instead of our usual location in a local Christian School gym. It was a beautiful, sunny evening. The meal was organized and served by a Sunday school class. They had more work […]
Saturday Morning, September 19 It was a beautiful, late Saturday morning for mowing hay in the field next to our roadside bank on the northwestern side of our property. I expect the hay will feed Jacob and Eli’s horses, mules and goats. I love the feeling in the air on late summer mornings.
Saturday, September 19 Photos by Cerwin on his cellphone. Following TFC Global’s prayer breakfast and after purchasing the ground cherry pie at Village Market (previous post), Cerwin went to Mt Aetna to see the trucks at Lanita Specialized Truck Show. Hans, these pictures are for you. Remember this truck? This is the one you got […]
Saturday, September 26 Ground cherry pies have a bit of sentimental value to us. I learned about them from Cerwin’s mother, and Cerwin thinks she learned about them from Mable Ruth – a friend from the Souderton area. I think I have a vague memory of my mom or grandmother making one of these, but […]
One of Cerwin’s recent jobs (August 27) was to remove this sign from the shop at TFC Global’s International Office and replace it with the new logo. Our friend (from church) Charles Cassel loaned Cerwin the lift he uses for painting. The sign is 8 feet in diameter, so Cerwin needed the help of our […]
Thursday, September 17 It was the delightful afternoon that invited me to go outside and see what was happening in our end-of-summer yard. These morning-glory-type flowers are growing on the bank along the road. I think it is a wild flower of some sort. They are small as morning glories go. Another end-of-summer flower is […]
We love you! Daddy and Mother
This is going to be an unusual post for me, because it will be longer than usual – with only a few pictures in the beginning. I am posting it because this is what has been helpful for me while staying home because of COVID and retirement happening about the same time. At first I […]
Thursday Morning, September 17 I went outside the morning after the corn harvest to enjoy the new view of our surroundings. As I looked around, I noticed that someone must have been working through the night because there was fresh layer of manure on the field across the field. (Not sure that “fresh” is a […]
September 20 Sunday School Teacher – Rol Longenecker Victorious Love – Genesis 42:6-25 At the time of today’s lesson Egypt had full bins and Canaan had empty bins. Joseph’s brothers hated him because they were jealous. Jealously breeds hatred. His brothers sold Joseph. knowing that he would become a slave [human trafficking], then Potiphar made […]
Wednesday, September 16 Several days after the cornfield across the road was harvested (Sept. 11), I heard machinery next to our yard. Because they started cutting the corn very close to our house, I was able to get some closeups of the silage going into the truck. An hour and a half later they were […]
Tuesday, September 15 I find it fascinating that smoke from about 2,600 miles away – on the west coast – can travel to Pennsylvania and have an effect on our skies for a few days. We were having a sunny day that was diminished by the smoke and even affected our sunsets. Then, within a […]
Saturday, September 19 Remember this photo from yesterday’s post when Cerwin was spraying our trees for Lanternflies – hoping to shorten their lives? When I was weed eating toward evening, I noticed that one Shellbark tree in our front yard had hundreds of lanternflies crawling around on the trunk, Cerwin was surprised because he didn’t […]
This Week at Our Place. As Cerwin and I get the house and yard ready for the upcoming winter, we have been doing extra work in our yard and on the exterior of our house. Cerwin started by trimming our very large, overgrown firebush at the back of our yard. I don’t think it has […]
Friday, September 11 I heard equipment just before noon, and noticed that corn was being harvested in the field across the road from us. The crop in the foreground is the field of butternut squash. As the trench was filled, someone drove a tractor over it continually for hours to compress the silage. Notice a […]
September 8 – The day after returning from our West Virginia Trip. I was pleased to look out our kitchen window to see an adult red-headed woodpecker feeding a young one. Because I only began seeing these woodpeckers on a regular basis this summer, and started reading about them, I just learned that the young […]