It is Thursday morning and the children are all sleeping in a little longer. It’s their first day of not having to go to school for the summer. Yesterday, daughter Susan and I attended the school picnic. After the awards were presented to the children everyone moved outside to do the various activities planned for [...]
Church services are now past and are set to be here again in two weeks. Through it all I was battling a cough and lost my voice for a few days. I’m feeling better every day, which I’m glad for. I will share recipes for this week and will write more about church services next [...]
We are having a light rain this morning which we are so thankful for. Yesterday we also had some rain and it sure has made my garden perk up. I think we will be having radishes to use soon. Daughter Lovina and her friends were here for the night on Monday. They had lots of [...]
This is Tuesday evening around 10 p.m. It’s late and I should join the rest of the family and go to bed. It seems our days are extra filled with all the extra cleaning we are doing plus gardening. Tonight we were out in the garden planting until 8:30 p.m. We planted 92 tomato plants. [...]
Our garden is beginning to fill up more and more. So far we have potatoes, onions, peas, lettuce, radishes, red beets, carrots and dill planted. Hope to get time to plant corn, green beans, and zucchini this week yet. I’ll wait until next week to put out any tomato and pepper plants. The seeds we [...]
7 a.m. and the children just left for school. My husband, Joe, has been at work several hours already and daughter Elizabeth left for her job at 5:15 a.m. Joe tilled part of the garden last night. Daughter Susan, 17, and I, want to get some garden planted today. Spring is such a lovely time [...]
We are having cold, rainy weather again. Monday was nice and sunny so we could get the laundry all dried. We are out of coal so hopefully it won’t get too cold yet. It looks like it will be a late spring. So different from the early spring we had last year. The rivers are [...]
By Kevin Williams For The Madison Press Over 20 years ago, when I was 18 and a college journalism student, I created The Amish Cook column by hiring Old Order Amish writer Elizabeth Coblentz (Lovina’s mom) to write it. At the time I would have told you that I was all grown up and knew [...]
