I Love Our Neighborhood!
I drove one mile today – to check on the chicken fence being installed at Jere and Kristen’s house – and noticed this neat sign of patriotism at a neighbor’s farm.
A New Light/Fan for an Old House
The light above our kitchen table stopped working a few days ago, so my fix-or-install-almost-anything-husband bought and installed a new one. It’s nice having a new, working light. After he was finished, I said, “It’s nice to have something new in our fifty-year-old house.” It was fifty years ago this spring, summer, and fall (March-October) […]
Our Shasta Daisies
I know summer is here when our Shasta daisies are in full bloom. It is easy to look at them as a group and miss all that is going on in the white and yellow beauty. But when I focus on individual flowers, I see other things. Imperfections, over-the-hill petals, tiny bugs and… …larger critters. When […]
Supper with Chaplain Dave & Laura
Tuesday Evening, June 20 We specifically set an evening aside to visit with Dave and Laura Hertle who were visiting from Omaha, Nebraska – to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Laura grew up in this area and has a large family of siblings, nieces and nephews, so their four children planned the celebration to be held in the […]
Morning Has Broken
Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing Praise for the morning Praise for them springing fresh from the world Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung […]
Happy Birthday to Our Favorite Jesse
We love you! Grandpa & Grandma High
Father’s Day Lunch with Jere and Kristen’s Family
Sunday, June 18 Remember when I posted a few pictures of the day Anthony and I walked over to Jere and Kristen’s – and their small barn looked like this. This is what it looked like a few days later. By Father’s Day it was almost finished for the peeps that were arriving a few days […]
ATCA Antique Truck Show
Saturday, June 17 The park was busy by the time we were awake, dressed, had the chapel in order, and were ready for breakfast. We enjoyed sitting outside and watching trucks arrive – even thought it was drizzling. It was a busy day on the chapel as Saturday is the best attended day of the […]
Today’s Truck Rally Feature – Thanking Our Family
Our family grew up attending the June Truck Rally since the first one in 1982 and began helping us when Cerwin and I became Rally Coordinators in 1985 – and have faithfully been supporting us every year since then. In June 1985 Jeff was 20 (today he is 52), Diane was 19 (today she is 51), Jere was 15 (today […]
ATCA – Antique Truck Show
Friday, June 16 Cerwin had taken the chapel to Macungie Memorial Park the day before, so we left home about 7 am. In this picture: Alvin Wise (Chaplain Jake’s Dad), Chaplain Jake and his wife, Jane, Betty and Bob Russell (Bob is a volunteer chaplain), Cerwin, and Volunteer Chaplain Steve Neiswender. We have a nice […]
The Stage – Truck Rally Feature for Today
We received so many questions about our stage, that I have chosen it to be my Rally feature for today. Thanks to Larry & Scott Diller – Lanita Specialized LLC – for providing this beautiful rig. I called Scott this morning to get some information that people are asking: Total length of the rig – 82 […]
Running to Mom
Sunday, June 25 – after the Truck Rally Celebration After I saw Jack running and jumping into his mother’s arms like this – too fast for me to get photos – I asked them to replay it! 🙂 I didn’t realize that I was going to get some cute silhouettes. The Stoners – Will and Sherry and […]
Baseball
Monday Evening, June 12 It was a beautiful evening, an early ballgame, and a slow week for us in the evenings – a perfect reason to watch our church team, White Oak Red, play a game. Plus we have two grandsons and a grandson-in-law on the team. Jordan, left, and Nate were playing, but Dustan did not play […]
Truck Rally
Many of you are asking about and looking forward to my pictures of TFC’s big day at Lebanon Expo. I have about a weeks worth of other pictures to post first – including Macungie Antique Truck Show from June 16 & 17 – before I get to Truck Rally. We had a fabulous two days […]
A Day With Anthony
Friday, June 9 What fun to spend most of a day with our great grandson, Anthony. Our first job was to work on our tiny garden – which consists of two tomato plants, a cucumber, a pepper, oregano, and mint tea. I pointed out weeds to Anthony and he willingly dug them up. As we […]
Josiah Moves West
Friday, June 9 Our oldest grandson Josiah stopped in to say goodbye to us before he moved west. He has a job with a combining crew, but his real goal is to drive a big rig. We have stayed in touch via messages in the two weeks since he moved to Texas. He worked for […]
Birthday Breakfast
Friday, June 9 This was our first time to eat at Corner House Grill. We ate here before – but when it had a different name and owner. I had my camera along, but forgot to take pictures when we were inside. This breakfast was for my sister, Nancy’s, birthday. I was taking care of our great grandson, […]
Manheim Central Graduation – Part 2
Thursday Evening, June 8 Mr. Dennis Enck – Manheim Central Class of 1970 – inducted the Class of 2017 into Manheim Central’s Alumni Association. Jana leaving the stage Our crew preparing to leave the auditorium and look for Jana Flowers from Uncle Roy Hug from a friend Deb, Roy, Jared, Josh, Great-Grandma Hershey, Jesse, Kristen, Ian, […]