HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

                                                     

                                                      HAPPY  FATHER'S  DAY, DAD

THIS AND THAT, SATURDAY

This and That is made up of pictures that I take, but I don't have enough to make a post of.  The first two are of an Amish lady washing windows.  The second is an sparrow on a Bluebird bird house. Next is an antique car I saw while driving around.  I am not sure what make it is. Next is a big tractor. Finally, I got a picture of my bluebird.  Next two are of a deer.  The last picture - remember the pictures I had of the bird and her nest last week?  Well this is Big Daddy sitting on a telephone pole next to the pole the Mother bird and babies are.

Tomorrow there is another post for Fathers Day.  It is also the first day of summer.  If anyone has pictures from the Haiti Auction they would like to share, I would be glad to put them on here.  My e-mail is lincolnlady1121@yahoo.com  Speaking of Lincoln, I am off the road again.  The car is in the garage.  They think the starter went.

JEAN ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS

Someone asked that should one of our daughters marry a man of good faith, but no money background, does the bride family help out with property and a house.  Before our daughter married this man, we would want to know why he is in the financial position he is in.  Is it because he has been helping his family with medical expenses?  Has his Father been injured or passed and he is helping support his family? Does he have some medical or physical condition that he is unable to work outside the home?  Is there a lack of work in his area?  Or is he spending every penny that he earns on material items rather than saving some of his money?  Worse yet, is he just lazy and doesn't work.  We link our faith and work together.  If you are of good faith then you should be working, being able to support your bride and later, your family.

David and I discussed this.  What would we do?  If the man did not have any money as he was helping support his family, we would help with the property and the house.  If he had been a Foster Child and had no savings, we would help.  If he had a medical or physical condition where he could not run a farm, we would help with the property, house and try to set him up in some business that he could make an income.

If he was lazy or wasting his money, we would try to talk our daughter out of marrying him.  Should our daughter insist on marrying this man who does not work, David said they would move into our house with us.  If we had too, we would turn our attic into an apartment for them.  Then this man was going to learn to work a farm because David would see that this man learned, did the work and saved some of the money he made.  David said whoever marries his daughters are going to support her in the Old Order Mennonite way to which she is accustom.

That doesn't mean that he should be rich, He has to be a working person who has the religious faith and the means to provide for her and family.  If he is a farmer, does wood working, owns a general store, or some other religious approved means of support it is fine with us, but he must be able to support.

Also, if they marry, he is working and is injured or ill, in a position that he can no longer work, we would not allow them to starve either.  As I said before, if there is another trade that he could do, we would help him learn it and set up business.  If he was in position that he could not work, we would help them.  If we had too, we would move them in with us.

David said that likewise our young men will have to support their wife and family.  Sometimes our young men think he is too strict.  All of them put a certain amount of money they make in the bank for their future when they marry.  Not only have we taught them farming, but seen that they learn another occupation too.

In farming the weather can make such a difference in how the crops come out.  You may have several good years, then a bad year.  Starting out, with your own farm, the first few years might be tight and we would be glad to help our children out.  It is good to have another trade, too.  During winter time, when farming is at rest, another trade could be an income.   I didn't think I would go on so long on this subject, but this is important to us.

Susan has picked the boy at school that she says she wants to marry.  Actually she has a crush on him.  Of course, he doesn't know it.  He is two grades ahead of her.  At lunch recess, he plays with the boys and doesn't pay any attention to the girls.  He and his family attend where we do.  She felt sad that he doesn't notice her.  David and I told her to enjoy school, being a young lady, and her friends.  She has a while before she has to consider marriage.  Then she will not have to go to the the boys, they will come to her.

Marilyn has a message below.

Be With God,
Jean

The Haiti Auction is this evening and tomorrow.  I won't be going.  If anyone is going and taking pictures, I would appreciate if they could e-mail them to me so I could put them on here.

Thank you,
Marilyn

MENNONITE LAMB FARM

Found this Mennonite Lamb Farm and thought you might like to see pictures of the lambs.  I enjoyed seeing them.

NOTE:
I will be unable to go to the Haiti Auction this weekend.  If anyone goes and would like to contribute some pictures, I would be glad to put them on here.

JEAN'S LIME FRUIT MOLD

JEAN'S LIME FRUIT MOLD

6 oz pkg lime gelatin
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 1/2 cups cold water
2/3 cup pineapple juice
dash of salt
1 Cup crushed pineapple, drained (fresh or canned)
1 Cup diced pears (fresh or canned)
1 Cup dairy sour cream
lettuce
Pear halves
Maraschino cherries

Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.  Add cold water, pineapple juice and salt.  Chill until partially set.  Fold in fruit and sour cream.  Pour in lightly oiled 2 qt. mold or individual molds.  Chill until firm.  Unmold on lettuce.  Garnish with sliced pineapple, pear halves and maraschino cherries.

If you don't have enough pineapple juice - water will be fine.

Sometimes I get diet dairy sour cream.

BARNS - TIME TO HAVE SOME MORE ON !!!!

Driving around I got some Amish, Mennonite and Englisher barns.  Do you see the cross in picture 5?  Thought I would brighten up with some yellow, but I had to cheat a bit.  Last two pictures are of a friend of mine's cottage and garage.

ELMER TELLS WHY HE DIDN'T HAVE A POST LAST WEEK

Sorry, I wasn't on last week.  I had planned what I was going to tell about and everything except an emergency came up - our basement flooded.  Before we built our house, we surveyed our property and looked at the highest place to build out house, so we would not have a flood in our basement.  After we built our house, we didn't have a flood - until a week ago last Friday.

I was coming in from milking when I heard Anna yell from the steps leading to the basement telling me the basement was flooded.  I told Anna it couldn't be.  She told me in no uncertain terms that she knew a flooded basement when she saw it and we had one.  I started down the stairs to the basement and she was right.

So I went and started the generator that ran the bilge pump, but that couldn't get it out fast enough.  Anna is having a fit of all her canned goods on the shelves in the basement.  We had the shelves elevated when we had them put in, but the water was gaining.  Finally, I realized there was only one thing to do - call the Fire Department and have them pump the basement out.

One of the houses the Fire Department rang into was David and Jean's.  At first when he heard our name, the first thing he thought was fire, but the message said to bump the basement.  He told the family where the Fire Truck was going and why - then left.  Albert decided that Michael, Edward, Thomas and himself should come over to see if they good help.  I guess Grandmother Olive tried to talk him out of it, but he didn't listen.  So the boys got the buggy and off they all came to our house.

The Fire Department arrived and starting bumping.  Jean's boys got sent to the basement to move some of the canned goods and Albert went to Hannah and Moses.  Albert pounded on the door and when Moses answered told him who he was (Moses already knew) and said I want to see your basement.  Moses said he was kind of shocked because no one has ever come to his door and told him they wanted to see his basement, but he didn't question Albert.  Down Albert and Moses went to the basement - there's wasn't leaking.  Albert explained why he wanted to see if their basement was leaking because ours was.  Hannah and Moses house was newer than ours.  Not much.  But newer than ours.  Of course while all this is happening, the rain is coming down in sheets.

Meanwhile the boys are in our basement moving the canned goods higher on shelves when Anna told them if they put all the canned goods up there the shelves would become top heavy and fall.  So they started taking the canned goods up into the kitchen and one of our spare bedrooms.

Now I started thinking if this is Spring and we have all these canned goods this time of year, we must have tons more in the fall.  I guess we do.  Just never paid attention to how many we had before.

The Fire Department got another needed pumping call and left.  Jean's boys were at our house helping clean up the muddy mess in the basement and what they made bringing the canned goods up stairs.  Anna was was making coffee and putting out cookies, pies, etc for all the helpers to eat when we realized - where is Albert?  Edward and I went looking outside for him.  We found him and Moses walking around the outside of the house trying to find where the drainage was on our house and why it was not working.  Albert met us with you have lousy drainage - in fact so lousy we can't find it.

We all went inside and Albert said to get some of our Amish men and he would get some Old Order Mennonites over here tomorrow morning to put in a drainage system.  As we think back, Anna and I realize how lucky we are this didn't happen before especially when I think of the snow melt this year and previous rain storms we have had.  The Lord was looking over us.  Albert said if it gets high again tonight to call the Fire Department again.

Next day, after chores, they came - Amish and Old Order Mennonite.  We or I should say Albert laid out where the drainage should be.  It was worked on Saturday.  We had some finishing we wanted to do on Monday.  On Monday we finished, just as another rain storm came.  Albert said now, we would find out how good the work everyone did worked.  All must have done a great job as we haven't had any water in the basement since.

Some of the ladies came along too, to clean the mud and dirt out of the basement.  Then they sanitized it with something in the water.  Washed that basement from top to bottom, the shelves and whatever else they could find.  Said they wanted to make sure they wasn't germs or bugs in the basement.  I think we have the cleanest basement in all the county.  Then they moved all the canned goods back and cleaned the house and kitchen where the trail was when the boys bought the canned goods up.

So that is why I didn't have time to leave a post last week.  With all the rain we had, we haven't had any water in our basement since the drainage has been fixed.  We did have Jean's family including Albert and Olive over for dinner to thank them for what they did.  Also, thank the Fire Department for all they did.


Trust God's Wisdom,
Elmer