Here it is the 16th of January and the violets are blooming, the primrose, still a few rose blossoms and the pussy willows are about to burst out their fuzzies!
I need to prune the roses but Larry is busy pruning bushes so he fills up our green barrel every week so hopefully by the end of the month I can prune the roses.
The fog has been hitting us the last few days and evenings so hopefully that will soon lift and we'll see the sun again! It came out for a few minutes late this afternoon so that is a good sign.
Julie, Jim, Thomas, Emily and her friend Blake, Philip and Gary will all be here tomorrow evening to celebrate Julie and my birthdays! We'll order Pizza Villa and have sodas and celebrate!!! Will be fun - love these family events!
We had a great week with our Bible Clubs - the new club at Chenoweth with third graders was wonderful! It was a great beginning and I know it will probably double next Tuesday when the word gets out as to how much fun the kids had!
Middle schools are growing too - asked for more chairs so we could fit more in today so look for more next Friday. Amazing how kids want to learn more about God and what it means to be a Christian! Very rewarding!
Friday, January 16, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Spring is in the air!
While the evenings and mornings are chilly and usually foggy, the afternoons are sunny and warm, in the 60's. My primroses that came back from years ago are blooming along with the wild violets that were given to me years ago. Most surprisingly is the iris that is blooming - I've never had them bloom this early before. I had separated them and Julie & I planted a bunch in Emily's backyard last fall so am curious to see if her plants are blooming as well.
Larry's busy with Habitat three mornings a week as they are getting the windows and doors in so will be pretty secure soon. They are very fortunate that the volunteers who do the roof got it all done before our rains came. We expect rain again next weekend so all is welcomed as everything was so very dry.
Had a delicious dinner tonight- our neighbor went fishing in Alaska and gave us a nice big piece of halibut so fried it in butter with salt, pepper and lemon pepper - it was delicious. Along with it we had baked sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli plus strawberry banana jello with fruit cocktail and bananas. After trying something new last night I thought we deserved a good dinner tonight. I bought some frozen French Onion soup and baked fresh biscuits to go with it - but it wasn't very tasty - have three more so will have to add something else to the meal to make it complete when I try it again.
After having the flu bug last week from Monday after I finished at Cruickshank school Bible Club until Wednesday - I'm ready for a complete week this week to catch up! We start a new Bible Club in another public elementary school on Tuesday with third graders - looking forward to it. Our middle schools are so well received at lunch time - kids seem very appreciative to know God loves them and forgives them and it is a free gift - they only have to believe and ask Jesus into their hearts! It is so rewarding to see the differences in these kids lives as they accept Christ.
Larry's busy with Habitat three mornings a week as they are getting the windows and doors in so will be pretty secure soon. They are very fortunate that the volunteers who do the roof got it all done before our rains came. We expect rain again next weekend so all is welcomed as everything was so very dry.
Had a delicious dinner tonight- our neighbor went fishing in Alaska and gave us a nice big piece of halibut so fried it in butter with salt, pepper and lemon pepper - it was delicious. Along with it we had baked sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli plus strawberry banana jello with fruit cocktail and bananas. After trying something new last night I thought we deserved a good dinner tonight. I bought some frozen French Onion soup and baked fresh biscuits to go with it - but it wasn't very tasty - have three more so will have to add something else to the meal to make it complete when I try it again.
After having the flu bug last week from Monday after I finished at Cruickshank school Bible Club until Wednesday - I'm ready for a complete week this week to catch up! We start a new Bible Club in another public elementary school on Tuesday with third graders - looking forward to it. Our middle schools are so well received at lunch time - kids seem very appreciative to know God loves them and forgives them and it is a free gift - they only have to believe and ask Jesus into their hearts! It is so rewarding to see the differences in these kids lives as they accept Christ.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
A new year and new beginnings!
Another new year and new beginnings!
I love a new year - an opportunity to begin new things, learn new things, and do new things!
I hope to recruit more board members for our local Habitat to make our board very diversified to reflect the different cultures in our community.
I hope to recruit more volunteers to do our Bible Clubs in our public schools - we start a new one next Tuesday - at Chenoweth - where all our kids went to school. It will be for third graders - there are 145 third graders do will probably have at least 40 attend for the first few weeks. They each take a letter home explaining that it is a Bible Club so some don't return but we usually keep a good majority of them all year.
I hope to be an active member of a call committee for anew Pastor as ours has returned to St. Louis to study for his PHD in hopes of returning to the Mission field where he visited with his whole family of five children on a year's sabactical two years ago and a return trip with his wife for a month a year ago.
I hope to do more deep cleaning and sorting - do some painting, and upgrading throughout the house - usually get a good start and then it stops.
I hope to stay healthy, keep exercising with walking Benji every morning and doing water aerobics at least two or three times a week.
I hope to further plans to visit Alaska in 2016 with all of our family, kids, in laws, grandkids, and whoever else wants to join us. . .it will be our 60th wedding anniversary!
I hope to help my oldest brother celebrate his 90th birthday in Seward Nebraska, and enjoy family celebrations.
I look forward to celebrating my 78th birthday soon and also daughter Julie's so we enjoy that special time together.
That's my hope for 2015 so far - I know the list will grow longer. . .
I love a new year - an opportunity to begin new things, learn new things, and do new things!
I hope to recruit more board members for our local Habitat to make our board very diversified to reflect the different cultures in our community.
I hope to recruit more volunteers to do our Bible Clubs in our public schools - we start a new one next Tuesday - at Chenoweth - where all our kids went to school. It will be for third graders - there are 145 third graders do will probably have at least 40 attend for the first few weeks. They each take a letter home explaining that it is a Bible Club so some don't return but we usually keep a good majority of them all year.
I hope to be an active member of a call committee for anew Pastor as ours has returned to St. Louis to study for his PHD in hopes of returning to the Mission field where he visited with his whole family of five children on a year's sabactical two years ago and a return trip with his wife for a month a year ago.
I hope to do more deep cleaning and sorting - do some painting, and upgrading throughout the house - usually get a good start and then it stops.
I hope to stay healthy, keep exercising with walking Benji every morning and doing water aerobics at least two or three times a week.
I hope to further plans to visit Alaska in 2016 with all of our family, kids, in laws, grandkids, and whoever else wants to join us. . .it will be our 60th wedding anniversary!
I hope to help my oldest brother celebrate his 90th birthday in Seward Nebraska, and enjoy family celebrations.
I look forward to celebrating my 78th birthday soon and also daughter Julie's so we enjoy that special time together.
That's my hope for 2015 so far - I know the list will grow longer. . .
A New Year 2015 - a New Beginning. . . .
I love the New Year! It's like a fresh start - a time to learn new things, do new things and meet new people!
Unfortunately, I came down with a flu Monday feeling a bit dizzy after my Church Women United meeting, went on to the middle school Bible Club, feeling worse as the time went on, came home and went right to bed. Dizzy & headache, nauseated, and felt awful. Slept the day away, did get sick to my stomach a couple times, but I hadn't eaten but a couple pieces of my raisin persimmon nut bread to didn't have much in my stomach. Slept off and on all day yesterday- cancelled water aerobics and my Tuesday Bible Club, hot tea and toast tasted best, and orange juice. I did eat a little dinner last night with Gary & Larry. Called for a sub at the hospital this afternoon so finally about 2:30 pm I decided to get out of my pajamas and have felt much better this afternoon. I won't try water aerobics until next week - will do the Bible Club tomorrow and Friday and meet with a new board member for Habitat, and a new volunteer for a new Bible Club which starts Tuesday after school in an elementary school. We're only doing third graders so will be interesting to see how many come - will take flyers over to go home - `145 third graders in that school, we had a second grade group before Christmas at lunch but the leaders said that it just wasn't enough time. It's the same lessons we're using in the middle schools so should be easy to adapt to the third grade level.
I took all the Christmas decorations, including the tree down on Saturday, I usually do it on Epiphany but the high school volunteers from the hospital helped me take down four trees in less than an hour at the Courthouse Museum in the afternoon so it inspired me to do ours in the morning while Larry was at Habitat. The tree was real dry so since I put it up a little early to host my Habitat board here, it was a good idea to take it down.
The nights have been chilly, in the 30's but the afternoons have been beautiful. Would you believe it got up to 71 here this afternoon? We're hoping for more rain and it sounds like the best opportunity for rain is a week from Friday for the weekend so we're hoping it comes through.
Unfortunately, I came down with a flu Monday feeling a bit dizzy after my Church Women United meeting, went on to the middle school Bible Club, feeling worse as the time went on, came home and went right to bed. Dizzy & headache, nauseated, and felt awful. Slept the day away, did get sick to my stomach a couple times, but I hadn't eaten but a couple pieces of my raisin persimmon nut bread to didn't have much in my stomach. Slept off and on all day yesterday- cancelled water aerobics and my Tuesday Bible Club, hot tea and toast tasted best, and orange juice. I did eat a little dinner last night with Gary & Larry. Called for a sub at the hospital this afternoon so finally about 2:30 pm I decided to get out of my pajamas and have felt much better this afternoon. I won't try water aerobics until next week - will do the Bible Club tomorrow and Friday and meet with a new board member for Habitat, and a new volunteer for a new Bible Club which starts Tuesday after school in an elementary school. We're only doing third graders so will be interesting to see how many come - will take flyers over to go home - `145 third graders in that school, we had a second grade group before Christmas at lunch but the leaders said that it just wasn't enough time. It's the same lessons we're using in the middle schools so should be easy to adapt to the third grade level.
I took all the Christmas decorations, including the tree down on Saturday, I usually do it on Epiphany but the high school volunteers from the hospital helped me take down four trees in less than an hour at the Courthouse Museum in the afternoon so it inspired me to do ours in the morning while Larry was at Habitat. The tree was real dry so since I put it up a little early to host my Habitat board here, it was a good idea to take it down.
The nights have been chilly, in the 30's but the afternoons have been beautiful. Would you believe it got up to 71 here this afternoon? We're hoping for more rain and it sounds like the best opportunity for rain is a week from Friday for the weekend so we're hoping it comes through.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Larry's 80th birthday celebration Sat. Sept 6, 2014
Larry celebrated his 80th birthday on Sept 3rd but we had his celebration on Sat. Sept 6th at St. Paul Parish Hall with about 40 friends and family. His sister, Rowena and her husband from San Diego drove up, Mark & Dena were in Colorado helping her mother get her house ready to sell so couldn't come, and Philip is in Washington DC on his Internship but they all called to wish him well. Gary smoked the tri tips, Thomas helped grill the chicken, Emily did all the flower arrangements with big yellow beautiful sunflowers, and I got red checkered tablecloths & red napkins so it was very colorful. Julie made Aunt Gladys' potato casserole, a fresh fruit salad, and I made the four bean salad, a broccoli/kale salad, and a bing cherry and peach cobbler which we served with vanilla ice cream so we had quite a feast! We invited people to take food home, and the rest was used for a 50th birthday celebration the next day for Pastor Kou so there was NO waste! It all tasted very good!! It was very special!
Larry celebrated his 80th birthday on Sept 3rd but we had his celebration on Sat. Sept 6th at St. Paul Parish Hall with about 40 friends and family. His sister, Rowena and her husband from San Diego drove up, Mark & Dena were in Colorado helping her mother get her house ready to sell so couldn't come, and Philip is in Washington DC on his Internship but they all called to wish him well. Gary smoked the tri tips, Thomas helped grill the chicken, Emily did all the flower arrangements with big yellow beautiful sunflowers, and I got red checkered tablecloths & red napkins so it was very colorful. Julie made Aunt Gladys' potato casserole, a fresh fruit salad, and I made the four bean salad, a broccoli/kale salad, and a bing cherry and peach cobbler which we served with vanilla ice cream so we had quite a feast! We invited people to take food home, and the rest was used for a 50th birthday celebration the next day for Pastor Kou so there was NO waste! It all tasted very good!! It was very special!
Larry's 80th birthday celebration
Forty people gathered at St Paul's Parish Hall to help Larry celebrate his 80th birthday on Saturday, Sept. 6th, his birthday was the 3rd but we celebrated on the 6th. His sister & husband, Rowena & Bruce came from San Diego, and a multitude of local friends. Gary smoked some tri tips, Thomas helped him grill some chicken, I had made three bean salad, and a cherry and peach cobbler, Julie made a huge fruit salad, and a bunch of Aunt Gladys' potato casserole, plus Larry made a big bunch of Aunt Elaine's Calico beans so we had a feast! Vanilla ice cream for the cobbler so lots of food, friends and fun! The leftovers were kept for Pastor Kou's 50th birthday celebration the next evening so nothing was wasted and we invited people to take any leftovers home they wanted. It was a fun weekend!!
Forty people gathered at St Paul's Parish Hall to help Larry celebrate his 80th birthday on Saturday, Sept. 6th, his birthday was the 3rd but we celebrated on the 6th. His sister & husband, Rowena & Bruce came from San Diego, and a multitude of local friends. Gary smoked some tri tips, Thomas helped him grill some chicken, I had made three bean salad, and a cherry and peach cobbler, Julie made a huge fruit salad, and a bunch of Aunt Gladys' potato casserole, plus Larry made a big bunch of Aunt Elaine's Calico beans so we had a feast! Vanilla ice cream for the cobbler so lots of food, friends and fun! The leftovers were kept for Pastor Kou's 50th birthday celebration the next evening so nothing was wasted and we invited people to take any leftovers home they wanted. It was a fun weekend!!
September 29, 2014
Celebrated Gary's birthday Saturday in Modesto at Emily's house after we helped trim bushes, and get the yard ready to put in sprinklers. Blake, her friend, did the roto tilling, then rolled it and we shoveled up the Bermuda and other weeds that surfaced. We all got a workout! Emily barbecued delicious hamburgers, Julie made macaroni & cheese, beans and a beautiful chocolate cake! So we had a feast! Then tonight Gary chose the IHOP for his birthday dinner and we each had omelettes, and came home to the warm cherry pie I had baked this afternoon with a dip of vanilla ice cream of course. It was the quart of cherries we brought back this summer from Door County, those special cherries that are so very good - Montmorency or something like that.
Celebrated Gary's birthday Saturday in Modesto at Emily's house after we helped trim bushes, and get the yard ready to put in sprinklers. Blake, her friend, did the roto tilling, then rolled it and we shoveled up the Bermuda and other weeds that surfaced. We all got a workout! Emily barbecued delicious hamburgers, Julie made macaroni & cheese, beans and a beautiful chocolate cake! So we had a feast! Then tonight Gary chose the IHOP for his birthday dinner and we each had omelettes, and came home to the warm cherry pie I had baked this afternoon with a dip of vanilla ice cream of course. It was the quart of cherries we brought back this summer from Door County, those special cherries that are so very good - Montmorency or something like that.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)