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3/30/06 6:52 am.
36º F, Bright clouds, S wind 8 mph.
Good morning,
A beautiful spring day yesterday. Temperature got close to 50º F and the wind was relatively quiet. The mud season has not really yet hit here, other than one short stretch of the driveway. Will have to do something about that part this year. Overall though the countryside is really drying up nicely. The warm weather and the lack of rain or snow has really helped that. We also have had some days with pretty high winds. The weatherman is predicting that we will have some rain, possible thunder storms too, tonight. When we went to Green Bay on Tuesday, we noticed one place particularly, that normally this time of year is about 40 acres of water from melting snow and a huge flock of Canadian Geese. This year there is only the small creek, but all of the geese were still there. Fortunately, there have been only a couple of grass fires so far this year. Fire danger should be higher this year I think.
The fishermen have been out on the lake for the past couple three weeks now. The Kewaunee city workman have put the launching ramp collection booth in place and are busy getting the docks and slips in place too. Guess they figure there will be a season this year. I have not heard if the fishermen have had good success or not. Not too sure if they are going out because of success or because it is time of the year. The smaller lakes have lost their ice covering this week pretty much too. There are a lot of boats in peoples yards getting cleaned up and ready for the season.
Last night it was our turn to bring soup and sandwiches for the Lenten service. Last week they ran out of soup and almost out of sandwiches. I made my usual fish chowder, but doubled the recipe and Margriet made tuna salad sandwiches, just in case there was not enough brought by others. As it turned out, there was more than enough of everything as everyone else also had the same idea and brought more than they normally would. Someone also brought a case of large cans of tomato soup - just in case. Of course the food was good and we had a good time in the kitchen getting it ready and serving it. Howard made a couple pots of soup from dehydrated mixes. Of course that was a topic of teasing!
I used a different recipe this time and it turned out very well, but not a "thick" as the one I normally use. About half of it was left over, so we gave some of it to one of our members who is having a rough time of it, and brought the rest home with us. Guess we will be having Fiskesuppe for lunch for a time to come. When we were in Green Bay, we picked up 3 "used" (day old) sub sandwich bread. Figured it was easier to make three sandwiches than a dozen or so. After they were made, Margriet cut them into several smaller ones to serve. The folks seemed to like them as there was not much left. Next time we need to make a bunch of sandwiches, we will do the same as it worked pretty well.
Margriet still doesn’t have her computer working yet. We did get an email back from Microsoft indicating some changes to make, but they didn’t have any effect either. They also asked for an information file from this computer, so ran it and another on Margriet’s computer, sending both of them to him. Hope he comes up with a solution soon. Margriet is really getting grumpy not having it to play with. I am too. One thing, we sure are learning more about these machines!
While we were in Green Bay, I stopped at the Home Depot to see if they would accept a check from church to buy gift cards to send to Grace Lutheran Church in Long Beach, Mississippi. They will. Last month’s special offering was to be directed to Long Beach and the total came close to $500.00 to send. Margriet and I will make up the difference to make it even money. I really was surprised to see we raised that much, but happy we did anyway. Talked to the Treasurer last night and she will cut a check so I can pick up the card(s) next run to Green Bay.
We have a couple of folks who are members of a woodworking group in Green Bay and convinced the members to gather up tools they no longer use/need to send to Long Beach for them to use. The have also received about 200 gallons of paint and some of it at least has been sent on the buses heading south. The tools will follow on the next buses heading south when they start running weekly in June. At the moment the south is overrun by college students on spring break. We hope there will be more buses heading south than those already planned and some folks from our congregation also are onboard them.
At the Synod Camping meeting on Sunday, about 25% of the folks attending had been to the south to help there. The high number really surprised me. One of the constant themes they said occurred over and over again was that the people could not understand why the white folks from the north were coming down to help the dark folks in the south! It is an interesting comment. One of the guys, who was a member of a 60 man group working together, said that one "dark gal" who had lost everything and had nothing left or income, was moved to tears. She decided to make a meal, gumbo, for them, even though she had no real means to. She went door to door asking for ingredients, picking up crabs here, or clams there, and continued until she had enough to feed the 60 men until they could not eat anymore. The man said he had no idea how she was able to acquire not only the ingredients, but also the means of preparing the food and serving it. He was reminded of the loves and fishes. All the men thought they were more than compensated for their time and effort. Amen.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
36º F, Bright clouds, S wind 8 mph.
Good morning,
A beautiful spring day yesterday. Temperature got close to 50º F and the wind was relatively quiet. The mud season has not really yet hit here, other than one short stretch of the driveway. Will have to do something about that part this year. Overall though the countryside is really drying up nicely. The warm weather and the lack of rain or snow has really helped that. We also have had some days with pretty high winds. The weatherman is predicting that we will have some rain, possible thunder storms too, tonight. When we went to Green Bay on Tuesday, we noticed one place particularly, that normally this time of year is about 40 acres of water from melting snow and a huge flock of Canadian Geese. This year there is only the small creek, but all of the geese were still there. Fortunately, there have been only a couple of grass fires so far this year. Fire danger should be higher this year I think.
The fishermen have been out on the lake for the past couple three weeks now. The Kewaunee city workman have put the launching ramp collection booth in place and are busy getting the docks and slips in place too. Guess they figure there will be a season this year. I have not heard if the fishermen have had good success or not. Not too sure if they are going out because of success or because it is time of the year. The smaller lakes have lost their ice covering this week pretty much too. There are a lot of boats in peoples yards getting cleaned up and ready for the season.
Last night it was our turn to bring soup and sandwiches for the Lenten service. Last week they ran out of soup and almost out of sandwiches. I made my usual fish chowder, but doubled the recipe and Margriet made tuna salad sandwiches, just in case there was not enough brought by others. As it turned out, there was more than enough of everything as everyone else also had the same idea and brought more than they normally would. Someone also brought a case of large cans of tomato soup - just in case. Of course the food was good and we had a good time in the kitchen getting it ready and serving it. Howard made a couple pots of soup from dehydrated mixes. Of course that was a topic of teasing!
I used a different recipe this time and it turned out very well, but not a "thick" as the one I normally use. About half of it was left over, so we gave some of it to one of our members who is having a rough time of it, and brought the rest home with us. Guess we will be having Fiskesuppe for lunch for a time to come. When we were in Green Bay, we picked up 3 "used" (day old) sub sandwich bread. Figured it was easier to make three sandwiches than a dozen or so. After they were made, Margriet cut them into several smaller ones to serve. The folks seemed to like them as there was not much left. Next time we need to make a bunch of sandwiches, we will do the same as it worked pretty well.
Margriet still doesn’t have her computer working yet. We did get an email back from Microsoft indicating some changes to make, but they didn’t have any effect either. They also asked for an information file from this computer, so ran it and another on Margriet’s computer, sending both of them to him. Hope he comes up with a solution soon. Margriet is really getting grumpy not having it to play with. I am too. One thing, we sure are learning more about these machines!
While we were in Green Bay, I stopped at the Home Depot to see if they would accept a check from church to buy gift cards to send to Grace Lutheran Church in Long Beach, Mississippi. They will. Last month’s special offering was to be directed to Long Beach and the total came close to $500.00 to send. Margriet and I will make up the difference to make it even money. I really was surprised to see we raised that much, but happy we did anyway. Talked to the Treasurer last night and she will cut a check so I can pick up the card(s) next run to Green Bay.
We have a couple of folks who are members of a woodworking group in Green Bay and convinced the members to gather up tools they no longer use/need to send to Long Beach for them to use. The have also received about 200 gallons of paint and some of it at least has been sent on the buses heading south. The tools will follow on the next buses heading south when they start running weekly in June. At the moment the south is overrun by college students on spring break. We hope there will be more buses heading south than those already planned and some folks from our congregation also are onboard them.
At the Synod Camping meeting on Sunday, about 25% of the folks attending had been to the south to help there. The high number really surprised me. One of the constant themes they said occurred over and over again was that the people could not understand why the white folks from the north were coming down to help the dark folks in the south! It is an interesting comment. One of the guys, who was a member of a 60 man group working together, said that one "dark gal" who had lost everything and had nothing left or income, was moved to tears. She decided to make a meal, gumbo, for them, even though she had no real means to. She went door to door asking for ingredients, picking up crabs here, or clams there, and continued until she had enough to feed the 60 men until they could not eat anymore. The man said he had no idea how she was able to acquire not only the ingredients, but also the means of preparing the food and serving it. He was reminded of the loves and fishes. All the men thought they were more than compensated for their time and effort. Amen.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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