Summer warmth

July 24, 2007 (5:21am)
61º F, Overcast, Calm wind, 0 mph.

Good morning,

We have spent a couple of really slack days, at least I have. Sunday morning, Margriet woke up not feeling well at all. She seemed to have a fever and spent much of the day sleeping. She doesn’t feel punk very often and when it happens I stay pretty close to her and as quiet as possible. Don’t like my Woman hurting. Yesterday she was back pretty much to her usual self. The country rib dinner proved it! We missed church (and all of the Christmas cookies) and the evening concert. I did email the couple that invited us and got one back yesterday from Karla saying her husband was also sick and didn’t go. Guess it was a packed house and very hot inside. The next concert is coming up later, so might made that one or one of the others.

I finally finished truing up the area around the doorway to accept the brick moulding for the storm-door. My left shoulder has been bothering me again, for what reason I don’t know, so took it very slow in short sessions. It was not a particularly easy task as the OSB is difficult to work with and everything needed to be done by hand. Sure made chisels dull in a hurry. Hopefully the door will not be too long in being a finished task and we can enjoy another opening in the house without bugs coming in. Should help keep some warmer in the winter too.

The real highlight of the weekend was Margriet picking about a pint of raspberries, mashing them and adding some sugar, making a sauce to put over ice-cream! She ordered me to go to the store and get some ice-cream and I always do what she tells me to do. The results were wonderful and very tasty. It has been a very long time since having any ice-cream in the house, so we really enjoyed the treat. Had some more the following day and there still is a bit in the refrigerator. I tell you what, there isn’t much better eating than fresh raspberries over ice-cream - until the next treat comes along!

We found an envelop in some of my Mom’s things that my Dad’s brother Adolf had written several pages transcribed from their Mom’s diary. Adolf used some of Dad’s techniques and typed it, making about 10-12 carbon copies at the same time. This much have been a copy of the 12th copy. It is very difficult to read. I will attempt to transcribe the transcription, but not today. It is made up of short snippets, starting about the turn of the century and continuing on for several decades. Included is the episode of my Dad at a couple months old, pulling a cup of very hot coffee over himself and very seriously burned. It took months for him to recover and as it turned out, there was very little evidence of the event. For a while they feared he would lose an eye and be very heavily scared. Neither happened and he healed up very well. There is lots of information in it, much I had not heard before. It takes awhile to get through, so take it a bit at a time. Interesting.

Margriet needed a couple of things from the store yesterday. I was shocked, more than usual, at the prices. Picked up a small can of baking powder for more than twice what we have normally picked up a larger can for. Many times more than at the Amish store. Also picked up a small box of powdered milk for about 5 times what we have paid. Looking around at some other things, I found that eggs were over $2.00/dozen, hind quarters of chicken were more than twice the 59¢/# we normally buy them for, and on and on. Our plans called for us to buy a freezer in the not too distant future, after seeing those prices, tomorrow will be the day on the way to FISKLAND. Probably will pick up a 10 cubic foot size chest freezer. That should be about right for the two of us I think. We will put it in the basement of the main house where it will stay. Maybe we can find some room in it for some raspberries! Or maybe venison! Or rabbits! Or ....

Sunday we had a couple of hen turkeys walk by our front window about 25-30 feet from it. Looked like they were checking out the place and headed, what looked like the lean-to of the main house, but walked to the other side of the house and into the woods. If this had been FISKLAND there probably would have been a dozen or so together.

Today looks to be a rather hot day. Talking of temperatures in the mid-80's and partly cloudy, tomorrow too. The last couple of days have been nice, but not as warm as today and tomorrow. The plan is to go to FISKLAND tomorrow, pack the truck, attend a meeting at the Synod office Thursday evening, then return here on Friday. Today would have been the last Bible study I will lead, but the Synod meeting in Appleton, changed that. We don’t want to make two trips down in one week, especially with the price of gas, nor did we want to spend that much time at FISKLAND to make only one extended trip. So .... we do it this way.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris ><>