Saturday, February 4 Now that I am in my 70s, I spend and entire week (or more) celebrating my birthday. 🙂 This year we began on Saturday by going to Hershey Gardens to see the Butterfly House and orchid display. Along the way I asked Cerwin if we could look for the farm where my Dad […]
We love you! Grandpa & Grandma
When I saw these two walking around our two-mile block this morning, I thought, “Now that is dedication to walking.”
Thursday Evening, February 2 Because he won the spelling bee, Jere and Kristen told Jared to choose a restaurant for the celebration. He chose Olive Garden Cerwin took this picture, then a waitress offered to take one with him in it. What fun to celebrate with this gang. My yummy fettuccini – my favorite dish at Olive Garden. […]
The beautiful sunrises through our trees. If I want I can walk beyond the trees to get a picture – even in my housecoat – and nobody is around to see me. I love the colors of sunrises. Later in the day, while looking out our kitchen window – and still being surprised by our […]
We love you, Grandpa & Grandma High
Kristen invited me to middle school at 8:30 am on Thursday to watch Jared in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade spelling bee. Jared is in 6th grade. First thing I had to do was stop by the office for a visitor pass. The judges, officials, and teachers were checking to see if each student had arrived. […]
Tuesday, January 31 Three young couples from our church felt led to challenge the people of our congregation – White Oak Church of the Brethren – to spend 2017 in blessing our preachers. Cerwin and I knew immediately that we wanted to participate by choosing a specific week to pray for each of our nine preachers and their wife […]
Monday, January 30 It makes me sad that we have to take down our pretty Ash tree (right), but it barely had leaves last summer, and Amos said there was nothing he could do for it. So he came on Monday morning to put it out of it’s misery. First he took down the small […]
Monday, January 30 My sister usually takes me to Brickerville House Restaurant for breakfast sometime near my birthday. It was a bit early this year because she is very busy next week. It is one of the closest restaurants to our house – and Nancy’s. I enjoy going here because of the delicious food and interesting history. […]
Saturday Evening, January 28 4:00 pm: We enjoyed a seminar by Steve Sorensen (for north western Pennsylvania) on “Choosing Quality Optics.” We learned a lot of interesting facts about optics that are used for hunting. The pastor of Grace Point Nazarene Church (Ephrata) led a prayer of blessing on the meal. 5:00 pm meal When I took […]
Saturday Evening, January 28 After putting our things on seats – to save them for the program – we walked around to visit vendors and see displays. One of my first stops was with Roy Reiff (left) – a neighbor and friend who owns a hunting guide service in Montana. Before long, Larry, a friend from church stopped to talk to […]
Saturday morning, January 28 Yesterday we woke up to a light dusting of snow. I love snow, and since we are at the end of January without any snowstorms, I have to settle for flurries. 🙂 This was about all that happened. By evening most of the snow was gone from the ground.
Happy 95th Birthday to My Mother. This picture was probably taken in 1949 when I was 5 and mother was 27. January 28 is always a day when I think about the things I would like to tell (or ask) her and everything that has happened in our family since she died at the age of 52 in 1974 […]
Yesterday I heard a loud noise outside and thought the snow geese had come. We live close enough to Middle Creek Wildlife Sanctuary that they come by our place now and then. But it was a large flock (murder) of crows. In reading about crows, I learned that they mate for life – and sometimes […]
Wednesday, January 25 It was good to see a sunrise following many foggy, cloudy, rainy mornings. After getting a few things done in the office, we left for the Sauder lunch at Oregon Dairy. This was begun many years ago to get Mother High’s siblings together, and because someone had to bring most of them, it […]
