WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ON BLACK FRIDAY ?

What are you going to do today?  Are you going to work?  Going to the stores shopping? Set up your Christmas Tree? or something else?  I asked this question back in 2012.  Since then we have more people.  Also, people change things over the years.  So what are you going to do today?

I am trying to decide if I should go to another Amish and Mennonite area for pictures or stay home and do laundry. 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us atL
New York State of Mind

MARILYN SAYS

I am sorry I do not have a post on as I said I would.  A friend of mine fell and I had to the her to the hospital.  She did not break anything ,( thank heaven), but she is sore this morning. 

Marilyn

MIDDLE SCHOOL PHOTO CLUB STUDENTS PICTURES

Here are some pictures done by the Middle School Students Photo Club. 

On Wednesday, we will have a Thanksgiving Post for us.  I am not sure who will be doing it yet.

HORSES

As you can see, the owners have a fence around them.  I went driving in Amish area and these are all I could find. 

A month from today is Christmas.

ANNA AND MARILYN POST

ANNA

Carol asked if we had to take our prayer cap off and take out the pins in our hair when we went into the prison.  When we got to the prison they sent out purses through a metal detector and we had a walk through.  Michael's girl friend did not set it off, but I did.  When I broke my leg a couple of years ago, they put in a medal plate - that set the detector off.  The man got a hand held detector and ran it up and down - when he hit my leg - that set it off, so the man asked me to lift my shirt part of the dress.  The hand held detector went off at the leg,  He let me go through. 

The man asked us to take off our prayer cap.  He said if a lady were there, she would probably feel our hair.  He ran the and metal detector around our heads.  The pins did not set it off.  He did look inside our prayer caps.  He let us through.

I think the fact that there was a plate between us and we spoke on the phone let us through.  If we were in a room with her, I think they may have asked us to take the pins out.

What was funny is when my purse went through.  The man turned to me and said in a question tone, you are a mother.  I said yes how did he know.  Well he said, you have a pack of kleenex,, band-aides, sewing kit, tooth picks and I don't know what all.

I hope I answered your question.

MARILYN

I wish to thank everyone for all the well wishes and prayers you gave me yesterday, my birthday. You made a very Happy Birthday for me.  I also thank all our Amish and Mennonite friends especially Elmer because he is the one that had the post put on.

In case anyone is curious, I am 71,

God Bless you and yours,
Marilyn

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARILYN !!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARILYN
Jean, David and Family
Elmer, Anna and Family
Bishop Eli, Emma and Family
Bishop Joseph, Martha and Family
Grandma Olive and Grandfather Albert

THERE IS ALSO A PREVIOUS POST

AFRICAN VIOLET SHOW

                                          African Violet Magazines they had for free

                                          More magaxines

                                          A way to grown African Violets

                                         Directions on growing African Violets

                                          Containers for African Violets

                                          Small African Violets

                                          Planting Material

This is the last of the African Violet show that Jean and I went to last April. 


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GRANDMOTHER OLIVE'S CRANBERRY ORANGE CREAM MOLD

Grandmother Olive's Cranberry Orange Cream Mold

1 pkg ( 6 oz) black cherry jello
1 1/2 Cups boiled water
1 can ( 16 oz ) whole berry cranberry sauce
1 can ( 8 oz ) mandarin orange sections
1 pint sour cream
1/2 Cup toasted walnuts

Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.  Add cranberry sauce and stir until sauce is melted and berries float separately,  Add remaining ingredients and stir until well blended.  Pour mixture into 2 qt. mold and refrigerate until firm.

This is a different way to have cranberry for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.

BLUE JAY

                                       

First dish is full of bird food.  The next four have the bird.  The last dish is empty.

JEAN POSTS

On February 7th, Edward and Margaret got married.  There had been much discussion, but Edward insisted that it be at his house.  So, we ended up having all the people we could fit in the house and the rest in the barn.  Bishop Joseph performed the marriage in the house and one of our ministers in the barn.  After Edward and Margaret got married in the house, they went out into the barn and were given congratulations.

We served the dinner in the house in shifts.  Bishop Joseph gave the blessing at the first shift.  He then ate a quick meal and had to go to someone else's house to preform a wedding there.  Poor Bishop Joseph had three weddings to perform that day.  We had invited Bishop Eli and Emma, but they couldn't come because Bishop Eli had two weddings to perform that day.

As usual, many of the women, myself included were in the kitchen getting ready for the dinner.  Shortly before their getting married, Anna and Grandmother Olive came and rushed me out.  They wanted to make sure I witnessed the marriage.  Anna stayed in the kitchen, but Grandmother Olive came with me and sat next to me - to make sure I saw the whole thing.

Two of the kind of funny or unusual things is that Edward's new barn had never been used until after the wedding.  An English neighbor had retired from farming, so Edward rented his barn while the new barn was constructed.  After the new barn went up, Edward asked the neighbor if he could rent the neighbor's farm until after he married.  The neighbor said as long as he was invited to the wedding.  Neighbor and his wife, were the first invited to the wedding.

The other thing was when Edward saw us ladies coming into his kitchen with all our pots and pans.  He kept saying not to scratch the counter, don't chip the cupboards, - on and on he went until David got him out of the kitchen and said us ladies wouldn't damage it.  After everything was over and we left, Margaret, said Edward went over that kitchen to make sure everything was all right.

The day after the wedding, we ladies got the house straightened,  while the men went over to the neighbors barn to bring all of Edward and Margaret's horses and cows to his new barn.  The neighbor agreed  to only take back of the men pictures, but people wouldn't believe him if he told them they took the animals right down the road from one farm to another.  The men saw the pictures.

Oh, I almost forgot that Edward had a picture of his grandmother in his shirt pocket.  He didn't let anyone know until after the wedding and only to family.  What got David and I a bit upset is that none of Edward's natural family came to be the wedding.  A couple of days later we mentioned it to Edward and Margaret, and Edward said that we are his family.  They left, he prays for them, but our family is his family.  He even has an adoption paper that says so.  It brought us to tears.

Margaret said she was so happy.  Now that she and Edward are married, she is really a member of our family.  The only family that she has really known.

Michael said, he might be next.

Be With God,
Jean

VETERAN'S DAY

OUR FIRST FALL SNOW !

It started to snow today, so I got out and took some pictures.