I decided to write this column while my red beets are cooking. I cook them long enough so that the skin peels off easily. I want to make pickled red beets to put in cans. We will serve those for lunch when we have church services next spring. I also have several more buckets of [...]
School doors opened on Tuesday, Sept. 4. The house seemed pretty empty after the six youngest left for school at 7 a.m. They had Rich for their bus driver again which made them happy. Rich has been the bus driver for the children ever since we moved to Michigan eight years ago. He is a [...]
Laundry is hanging on the lines drying really quickly with the sun and breeze blowing. It took longer than usual to do the washing as the motor on the washing machine kept shutting down. I will have to have Joe look at it when he comes home from work. We usually wash clothes on Mondays, [...]
It is a nice, sunny Thursday forenoon. So far nights have been cool which make for some nice sleeping weather. It has been getting chilly enough at night that most of our windows were closed and it was still comfortable in the house. Sunday morning our thermometer showed 49 degrees. I wouldn’t be surprised if [...]
It is 5:15 a.m. and 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth just left for her job at the factory. My husband Joe left over an hour ago for his job. Elizabeth started at the factory a couple of weeks ago. She works five days a week. Her cleaning job didn’t have enough days of work each week for [...]
By Verena Eicher I decided to write for mom this week. It has been awhile since I wrote the column. I just came home from de-tasseling corn not too long ago. The corn was extra wet this morning since we got all that rain. I don’t really mind de-tasseling corn unless it is really [...]
The laundry looks dry on the wash line and is ready to come in and be folded. Daughters Susan and Verena just came home from de-tasseling. They are always ready for a shower and getting cleaned up when they come home. I told them to go take a nap after they get cleaned up since [...]
It is July 30 and 2012 is halfway over already. A happy fifth birthday to nephew Steven, Jacob and Emma’s son. I find it hard to believe he will be starting school this fall. Time seems to go faster every year. It looks like a nice day to do laundry. Last week we had rain [...]
