I pureed 6 quarts of persimmons this week - took them to church with a recipe for persimmon bread and they were promptly taken. This afternoon I pureed the rest of the fresh ones I had that Emily brought me and got 6 more quarts. So will share some more as I baked 8 dozen cookies this afternoon and must say I do like the persimmon bread much better than the cookies. The cookies seem a little dry - remind me of Aunt Anna Barth - she always made persimmon cookies. A couple ladies at church love cookies so were happy to get the pulp so maybe they have a better recipe than I used. I'll freeze these and take them to church to have after church Fellowship hour.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
The start of a New Year. . . . .
Amazing weather for the second day of January 2014!! The temp was 65 and feels like February instead of the cold, rainy weather we should have this time of year! We're hoping for some rain - some forecasters say it will happen next week - others are not so optimistic so we'll see what happens.
Now that we're enrolled in Medicare D, we were told we could go to our Pharmacy with our WellCare ID care and get prescriptions FREE. NOT SO!! The only ones that are free are the generic ones - - what interesting things we learn as we get older! So the prescriptions my OB/GYN Dr. wrote for me last week are not generic so since they would total over $100, I'll call her tomorrow to see if she can re-write them for a generic! Now we have learned to always ASK our Dr. to write generic drugs for prescriptions.
I did get a new battery in my watch today - the usual jewelry store just down the street from us no longer installs batteries in watches - so suggested Walmart and they still do while you wait! What is our world coming to? Is everyone sending people to Walmart instead of our hometown business owners?
Well, I guess we can be thankful we have beautiful weather, a warm house, good health, good food and excellent coffee! What more should we ask for? Thank you God!
Now that we're enrolled in Medicare D, we were told we could go to our Pharmacy with our WellCare ID care and get prescriptions FREE. NOT SO!! The only ones that are free are the generic ones - - what interesting things we learn as we get older! So the prescriptions my OB/GYN Dr. wrote for me last week are not generic so since they would total over $100, I'll call her tomorrow to see if she can re-write them for a generic! Now we have learned to always ASK our Dr. to write generic drugs for prescriptions.
I did get a new battery in my watch today - the usual jewelry store just down the street from us no longer installs batteries in watches - so suggested Walmart and they still do while you wait! What is our world coming to? Is everyone sending people to Walmart instead of our hometown business owners?
Well, I guess we can be thankful we have beautiful weather, a warm house, good health, good food and excellent coffee! What more should we ask for? Thank you God!
Friday, November 8, 2013
Gary, Larry, Benj and I drove out to the Merced College after dinner tonight to view the Field of Honor, the front lawn full of American flags in honor of our Veterans. It is a beautiful sight - with lights on - and there will be a special ceremony on Veterans Day at 10 a.m. The fellow who brainstormed the idea just passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. He was in the Rotary Club and had helped develop several Fields of Honor in other places = even other countries. It is beautiful! Must drive by in the daytime as well, Gary says he thinks it is more impressive in the daytime.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Beautiful Fall Weather. . .finally!!
After a very hot and long summer, our fall weather has finally arrived! The high was only 73 degrees today! Yesterday the wind came up, clouds came in and north and south of us had some rain but we only had a sprinkle. The dust was really bad so closed up the windows! We had our Young Life Annual Fall Roundup and it was scheduled to be outside at someone's home, so at 12:15 yesterday the decision was made to move it to Gateway Community Church which was a very wise decision!
It was very well planned, the western atmosphere was very attractive, the food was delicious, the testimonies from the students and their changed lives since they accepted Christ in their lives, all was very impressive. More and more kids are getting involved so after sending 17 kids to camp last year, 79 this year, this next summer could see 150 easily. So fundraising is a big challenge and the Annual Golf tournament is next Friday out at Stevinson Ranch.
We're enjoying a few hostellers a few nights a week - our annual inspection is coming up this Thursday so all is going well.
It was very well planned, the western atmosphere was very attractive, the food was delicious, the testimonies from the students and their changed lives since they accepted Christ in their lives, all was very impressive. More and more kids are getting involved so after sending 17 kids to camp last year, 79 this year, this next summer could see 150 easily. So fundraising is a big challenge and the Annual Golf tournament is next Friday out at Stevinson Ranch.
We're enjoying a few hostellers a few nights a week - our annual inspection is coming up this Thursday so all is going well.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Home Sweet Home!
After driving almost ALL of the 5000 miles on our trip, it does feel mighty good to be home again! We thoroughly enjoyed the Sorge reunion & 100th anniversary of Gurley, the small town near the Sorge farm where Larry grew up, and also celebrating their high school - was very well planned and fun! Larry saw people he hadn't seen for many years and they had such good food - a 30 minutes church service on Sunday put on by the Christian motorcycle club - amazing!! Following a sausage gravy & biscuit plus fruit cup brunch - lots of hard work went into it! Everyone really enjoyed it!
Then on to visit Larry's roommate in business school in Lincoln, Mel Abels, who was also in our wedding and we hadn't seen him in 57 years! They wouldn't have known each other but had a great lunch with them and nice visit in Kearney. Then on to Seward to visit my brother Bud & wife Elaine - we helped him celebrate his 88th birthday - my brother Don & wife Gladys, and their four girls all came - + a son in law, and my sister's two = Terry and Sandy plus her husband Mick. Bud & Elaine's daughter & son in law who did an excellent job of barbecuing brats and hamburgers, and granddaughter Julie & husband John and their daughter Sadie Elizabeth, who is Bud & Elaine's first great grandchild. What fun she is! She loves to dance so whenever she hears music she starts her little jig routine - so funny and she laughs too!
She's ready to walk but always hold on to something with one hand! She'll take off one of these days! Then the next day a Vrana Cousins reunion on my Dad's side - always fun to get together - and many thanks to Cousin Pat Grimes who pulls it altogether plus puts out a Cousins newsletter monthly! Then on to Wisconsin to spend a few days with Mark & Dena - Larry helped Mark with brakes on his pick up truck. I enjoyed some crocheting and reading - helping Dena a little bit - she is such a gourmet cook! What fabulous meals she put together - always made a big amount so they could freeze the leftovers for their next truck trip. Then on to Montana - took #90 so was different scenery - not much traffic and some pretty scenery. Very hot in Billings - 101 and on to Craig where Thomas had thought he would work in the fly shop - but a very desolate place - only a restaurant and 3 fly fishing places - no grocery store or gas station and the Missouri river right across the road - so many people putting in rafts and kayaks - many not putting on their life jackets - pulling them behind them in another raft - no one policing the place - so very glad Thomas and Jim didn't stay there. Housing as promised and was not to be had - we didn't see any places to live and I know they advertise lodges at a very expensive rate for their foreign fly fishermen. It's 40 miles from any gas station or grocery store - wouldn't be nice in the winter and very boring in the summer. Came on home and always amazed at the beauty coming over Donner Pass into California - we don't appreciate it like we should.
The weather here had been extremely hot while we were gone and it cooled down twenty degrees the day we came home - amazing! Since I did most of the driving, I slept until 8:30 the next morning. I'm having trouble with my right ear being plugged up - the different elevations - I've tried ear drops, peroxide, white vinegar and will call the ENT Dr. in the morning to see if I can get in. It's wonderful to see family and friends - not sure about driving 5000 miles again - may decide to fly next time and rent a car - would certainly make a difference time-wise! Benji was a great little traveler - he learned to jump in the back seat into his bed when it got hot with the sun hitting him in the front seat! He was so glad to see Gary and vice versa - they really love each other! Back in the swing of things - Larry's back working on the Habitat House - I shared a picture of the one in Seward with our Habitat board last night - and I worked at the hospital this afternoon - doing water aerobics again three days a week for an hour, and meeting with my high school student volunteers at the hospital next Tuesday - meeting with a group from church to begin a Family Night starting in Sept once a week for the whole family - will take lots of planning and organization but we're excited about doing it. My brothers and I on Bud's birthday 625th.
After driving almost ALL of the 5000 miles on our trip, it does feel mighty good to be home again! We thoroughly enjoyed the Sorge reunion & 100th anniversary of Gurley, the small town near the Sorge farm where Larry grew up, and also celebrating their high school - was very well planned and fun! Larry saw people he hadn't seen for many years and they had such good food - a 30 minutes church service on Sunday put on by the Christian motorcycle club - amazing!! Following a sausage gravy & biscuit plus fruit cup brunch - lots of hard work went into it! Everyone really enjoyed it!
Then on to visit Larry's roommate in business school in Lincoln, Mel Abels, who was also in our wedding and we hadn't seen him in 57 years! They wouldn't have known each other but had a great lunch with them and nice visit in Kearney. Then on to Seward to visit my brother Bud & wife Elaine - we helped him celebrate his 88th birthday - my brother Don & wife Gladys, and their four girls all came - + a son in law, and my sister's two = Terry and Sandy plus her husband Mick. Bud & Elaine's daughter & son in law who did an excellent job of barbecuing brats and hamburgers, and granddaughter Julie & husband John and their daughter Sadie Elizabeth, who is Bud & Elaine's first great grandchild. What fun she is! She loves to dance so whenever she hears music she starts her little jig routine - so funny and she laughs too!
She's ready to walk but always hold on to something with one hand! She'll take off one of these days! Then the next day a Vrana Cousins reunion on my Dad's side - always fun to get together - and many thanks to Cousin Pat Grimes who pulls it altogether plus puts out a Cousins newsletter monthly! Then on to Wisconsin to spend a few days with Mark & Dena - Larry helped Mark with brakes on his pick up truck. I enjoyed some crocheting and reading - helping Dena a little bit - she is such a gourmet cook! What fabulous meals she put together - always made a big amount so they could freeze the leftovers for their next truck trip. Then on to Montana - took #90 so was different scenery - not much traffic and some pretty scenery. Very hot in Billings - 101 and on to Craig where Thomas had thought he would work in the fly shop - but a very desolate place - only a restaurant and 3 fly fishing places - no grocery store or gas station and the Missouri river right across the road - so many people putting in rafts and kayaks - many not putting on their life jackets - pulling them behind them in another raft - no one policing the place - so very glad Thomas and Jim didn't stay there. Housing as promised and was not to be had - we didn't see any places to live and I know they advertise lodges at a very expensive rate for their foreign fly fishermen. It's 40 miles from any gas station or grocery store - wouldn't be nice in the winter and very boring in the summer. Came on home and always amazed at the beauty coming over Donner Pass into California - we don't appreciate it like we should.
The weather here had been extremely hot while we were gone and it cooled down twenty degrees the day we came home - amazing! Since I did most of the driving, I slept until 8:30 the next morning. I'm having trouble with my right ear being plugged up - the different elevations - I've tried ear drops, peroxide, white vinegar and will call the ENT Dr. in the morning to see if I can get in. It's wonderful to see family and friends - not sure about driving 5000 miles again - may decide to fly next time and rent a car - would certainly make a difference time-wise! Benji was a great little traveler - he learned to jump in the back seat into his bed when it got hot with the sun hitting him in the front seat! He was so glad to see Gary and vice versa - they really love each other! Back in the swing of things - Larry's back working on the Habitat House - I shared a picture of the one in Seward with our Habitat board last night - and I worked at the hospital this afternoon - doing water aerobics again three days a week for an hour, and meeting with my high school student volunteers at the hospital next Tuesday - meeting with a group from church to begin a Family Night starting in Sept once a week for the whole family - will take lots of planning and organization but we're excited about doing it. My brothers and I on Bud's birthday 625th.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Our 57th anniversary celebration after worship Sunday, June 9, 2013
Family Celebration for Philip's 19th birthday
Family Celebration for Philip's 19th birthday
Sunday, June 9, 2013
What fun we had! Delicious beef tri tip smoked by Gary, grilled chicken breasts barbecued by Larry, I baked small Yukon gold potatoes, delicious sweet corn from Modesto, and to top it off, Tuxedo Chocolate mousse cake from Costco - it was great!
So much fun that we planned a swim party at Gary's next Saturday to celebrate Father's Day! We're in front of Philip's new car but you can't see it for all the people!
Sunday, June 9, 2013
What fun we had! Delicious beef tri tip smoked by Gary, grilled chicken breasts barbecued by Larry, I baked small Yukon gold potatoes, delicious sweet corn from Modesto, and to top it off, Tuxedo Chocolate mousse cake from Costco - it was great!
So much fun that we planned a swim party at Gary's next Saturday to celebrate Father's Day! We're in front of Philip's new car but you can't see it for all the people!
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