It’s a little past 7 a.m. and the bright glow in the eastern sky looks like a promise for a sunny day. The sun is always welcome at this time of the year. The ground is covered with snow again and the temperatures are colder. Finally feels like winter. Saturday morning our thermometer showed 6 [...]
The sun is shining and it almost seems like spring with the unusual warmth we are experiencing. We were glad for the warmer weather last week. Our house didn’t have heat from Wednesday until Saturday morning because the glass on our Hitzer coal stove broke. So we decided to trade ours in for a new [...]
Last Monday it was rainy and warm and now this week we have snow and cold again. Kevin, 6, is home from school today. He has been running a fever since yesterday morning. It is not a high fever but just enough to make him feel miserable at times. He also has a cough and [...]
By Lovina Eicher For The Madison Press This has been a different winter so far weather-wise. We had another snowstorm during the past week, but then as quickly as it snowed, it warmed back up. Now it rained during the night and the temperature is up to 45. We also had some thunder and [...]
Here is a diary of a recent Friday in this household: 3:15 a.m. — Time to get up. I prepare my husband Joe’s lunch which is homemade chicken noodle soup, crackers, ranger cookies — which daughter Susan baked yesterday — and some frozen peaches. Joe like soups better than sandwiches for lunch. But he always [...]
We are now a week into 2012 and a whole new year lies ahead of us. I hope you readers had a blessed holiday season. This week husband Joe is back to work after a two-week break and our six youngest children will also go back to school. It was wonderful having everyone home but [...]
Another year has gone into history. I often think of the verse “another year will soon be past only what is done for Christ will last.” How very true those words are. We had a green Christmas with warmer than usual weather but we awoke yesterday to a white world. The ground was covered in [...]
Yesterday after church services we had our annual Christmas potluck dinner. As always there was way too much food. Casseroles, ham and cheese sandwiches, salads, vegetables, dip, puddings, cakes, pies, and so forth were on the menu. I took a big bowl of homemade potato salad. Our church district has a lot of little children, [...]
