Thursday January 31, 2008

 

 

Morning, Noon, and Night

 

Wednesday was a tie-your-trash-can-down kind of day ~ stormy and windy.

 

This goldfinch stayed long after all other birds gave up fighting the wind.  Notice the feeder in back of him swinging in the wind, and the feathers blowing against his beak on the right side of his face.

 

About midmorning I heard someone coming down the steps to my basement office.  It was my niece, Amy, with a fresh-baked loaf of bread. 

 

Yum! 

I told vernam06 that we needed to get together.  I noticed on her site that she was making butter.  Alas, we are too many hours apart. 

 

Lunch with a few Sauder aunts, uncles, and cousins.

I am not sure how this quarterly lunch gathering began (a year or two ago), probably when some cousins wanted to get their parents together on a regular basis.  The older cousins are just beginning to retire, and most of the aunts and uncles no longer drive.  Uncle John announced at this meal that he gave up his driver’s license.

 

The aunts and uncles are Cerwin’s mother’s siblings.  Left to right on the right side of the table – cousin Elaine, Cerwin, our brother-in-law, Mel, Cerwin’s sister, Velda, Aunt Edna, and cousin Reba.

 

Cerwin’s brother, Elvin, cousin Blanche, and Ella (Cerwin’s mother).

If you look closely at Blanche’s menu, you can see we are at Oregon Dairy.  This is the restaurant of choice, because three of the siblings live nearby at Landis Homes Retirement Community.

 

Aunt Bertha and her daughter, Nancy

 

Elvin, Blanche, Mother, Uncle John, Bertha, Nancy, Cousin Resie, and her dad Uncle Amos.

 

Aunt Naomi with daughters Esther and Elaine.

 

Aunt Edna with three of her children:  Reba, Ken, and Anna.

 

 Bertha, Nancy, Resie, Amos

The next Sauder lunch will be at noon on April 30.  Any Sauder cousins reading this – you are welcome.

 

When I looked outside an eastern window at suppertime, I knew there must be a beautiful sunset.

 

 It was still windy, so I didn’t feel like going to my favorite “sunset-taking” photo spot in the front yard, so carefully opened a door at the back of the garage.  (Carefully ~ so it didn’t slam against the house!)  I think I found a new, favorite place to take sunset pictures.

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Shortly after sunset the wind stopped (where does wind go when it stops blowing?), and we enjoyed a quiet, relaxing evening.  Then, just as I was ready to make this entry, a few minutes before 9 p.m., the electric went off.  

We don’t usually go to bed at 9 o’clock, but neither of us felt like reading by candlelight.  When we woke this morning, the electric was back.  Yes, to electric!