New York State of Mind

Friday, January 11, 2019

MAIL BOXES - For 2019

Thought I would get something different on today. I have had them on before but not for a long time. A few of them are not too clear because of the sun out, but I'm not going to complain about sun.

Thursday, January 10, 2019

COWS - First for 2019

On my driving around, I saw these cows. They were pretty big cows.

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

JEAN'S - 1st RECIPE OF 2019- GERMAN APPLE PANCAKES

JEAN'S GERMAN APPLE PANCAKES

Pancakes
3 lg eggs
3/4 cup milk
3/4 c white flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp butter

Filling
1 lb tart, fresh apples
1/4 cups melted butter
1/4 cup sugar
Powdered cinnamon
Powdered nutmeg

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Beat together the eggs, milk, flour and salt until very smooth. In a heavy 12 inch skillet, melt 1 1/2 tablespoons butter. As soon as it is quite hot, pour in the batter and put the skillet in the oven. After 15 minutes, lower oven temperature to 350 degrees and continue making another 10 minutes. The pancakes should be light brown and crisp. During the first 10 to 15 minutes of baking, pancakes may puff up in large bubbles, If so, pierce thoroughly with fork. While the pancake is baking, prepare the filling.

Filling
Peel and thinly slice apples. Saute them lightly in butter for about 8 to 10 minutes, add sugar. Season with cinnamon and nutmeg. The applies should be just tender, not too soft. When pancake is ready, slice it onto an oval plate, pour apple filling over one side and fold the other side over. Serve at once, slicing pieces off crosswise,

Jean Says: This makes a great breakfast or dessert.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

ELMER'S FIRST POST OF 2019

Hope everyone had a Happy New Year. As the Amish and Mennonite, we don't have anything special we are suppose to do on this day. Oh, Anna, cooked up a delicious pork dinner. So aside from a special dinner, we don't hold church that day. Even if church does fall on the same day as the New Year, we just wish everyone Happy New Year. We do like to go see the fireworks that the Englishers have every New Year, but it got cancelled this year do to the wind we had.

So Anna and I make this a kind of a special day for us and God. We do the chores we have to. Anna cooked the meals. But we also take a time to sit and go over the last year. I read a quote from the Bible,we pray and then we start by recalling all the not so good things of the last year. Things that happened last year, things we did wrong last year, things that happened to others that effected us, things that happened to us that effected others. We pray to apologize to God for things we did wrong. Ask the Lord to help us so we don't make the same things again. Thank the Lord for these hard times as we know they were for a reason.

Then, I read a quote from the Bible and we pray. Then we recall all the good times last year. Things people have done for us. Thing we have done for others. Good things the Lord has happen to us, some unexpected, We thank the Lord for keeping Anna and I well and together. Thanking the Lord for keeping our children, grandchildren and family safe and sound. You know, every year we have more good things than we do not so good things. We pray and thank the Lord for all He has done for us.

We then pray and ask the Lord for his knowledge and wisdom for the coming year. That when we doubt, we come to Him and don't just go off on our own. We seem to have more of the bad times when we don't turn to the Lord even in the most tiny things. Things that come up that we think we can handle. We don't stop and turn to the Lord. Usually these things turn out bad. We must trust and relay on Him at all times.

We then thank the Lord for everything we can think of. Now this gets kind of silly. We start thanking for all the big things, the medium things and then down the little things. Sometimes we forget to thank the Lord for all the little things. We first thank the Lord for what we remember right off, but then Anna and I go through the day adding other things that we forgot. Now that's where we somethings get silly. We thank God for the new tooth brushes we bought, the groceries we buy, the new blanket we bought for one of our horses, on and on we go. It's a fun day for us to come up to think of all the things He has given us. At bedtime, we thank the Lord again for all He has done for us and ask that He leads us the way we should go this year, and that we listen at all times, even the times we think we can do it by ourselves. Because to be honest, there is nothing we can do without the Lord.

Bishop Joseph was suppose to put on a post before New Year's but his Grandmother, who has been sick for a long time, passed away. He and part of his family went to Pennsylvania to see her before she passed. While they were there she passed. She would have been 100, if she had lived another month.

Trust God's Wisdom.
Elmer