Quick cute conversation with Bennett this afternoon. Back story, Kristen was driving my kids and they made a stop at the cemetery. Alittle while later Bennett was in the car with me heading to Target. Here was the conversation I had with him. (I stopped at the cemetery earlier this summer with Bennett one time so this is not the first time since the funeral.)
R: So I heard that Kristen took you to the cemetery today. Did you see where Great-Grandma was buried?
B: Yea. I stand on she. She is in heaven now and is very happy.
R: Yes you're right. She is in heaven.
B: I watered she too.
R: Well do you mean you watered the flowers?
B: No, I watered Great-Grandma.
By this point I couldn't keep it in anymore and I was laughing at this conversation.
I figured he meant that he stood on the tombstone and watered the tombstone because Kristen had a picture of them by it. But when I asked her about it later she said that he watered the dirt where the grass was supposed to be growing. So that is why he was thinking he was really watering her!
What goes through their minds at this age....
So just thought I'd let you all know that Grandma was well watered today :-)
Friday, July 19, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Corn Crib Shed
By the next time you come to my mom's farm, things might look alittle bit different. (even if you show up in 2 weeks!) David has decided that this old corn crib shed is coming down! It's only use in the past 15+ years has been as a garage for Jon's car. The roof leaked and it didn't even keep rain or snow out of the shed anymore.
In its place David is planning to build a nice workshop/garage shed for himself. He is planning to do most of the actual building of this new shed by himself so I really don't think it will be built anymore this summer but I might be wrong in that thinking. He is planning to have this new workshop have a cement floor and to have it heated so that he can work out there during the winter. All of his tools and saws will be moved out of moms house garage and into this new shed. He has been talking about this since winter and he finally decided he's going to do it. He hopes to start a construction business for himself someday so he wanted a 'headquarters' with an office and shop.
The other day he started the demo and was on top of the roof ripping shingles off and some of the plywood. Scary watching him do that so high up!
The main use of this shed back in the farming days of my dad and Grandpa was to hold corn cobs (before my dad had a combine and put up the bins to put the shelled corn in). The corn was put in the top and then was removed from the shed by those 3 doors. Honestly my dad did not use that shed very often that I can remember. The door furthest on the right used to be my playhouse! I had a kitchen set in there with my play dishes and play food. I remember so many fun times in that playhouse!
In its place David is planning to build a nice workshop/garage shed for himself. He is planning to do most of the actual building of this new shed by himself so I really don't think it will be built anymore this summer but I might be wrong in that thinking. He is planning to have this new workshop have a cement floor and to have it heated so that he can work out there during the winter. All of his tools and saws will be moved out of moms house garage and into this new shed. He has been talking about this since winter and he finally decided he's going to do it. He hopes to start a construction business for himself someday so he wanted a 'headquarters' with an office and shop.
The other day he started the demo and was on top of the roof ripping shingles off and some of the plywood. Scary watching him do that so high up!
The main use of this shed back in the farming days of my dad and Grandpa was to hold corn cobs (before my dad had a combine and put up the bins to put the shelled corn in). The corn was put in the top and then was removed from the shed by those 3 doors. Honestly my dad did not use that shed very often that I can remember. The door furthest on the right used to be my playhouse! I had a kitchen set in there with my play dishes and play food. I remember so many fun times in that playhouse!
Cookbook
I was really hoping to start to be more faithful at posting on my blog. The month of June got away from me though. I became in charge of putting together a 100th Anniversary Cookbook for St. Mark Church which took up literally every single spare minute that I had. The company that we were going through had a July 1st deadline for the cheapest price...a before the Christmas rush discount...so I was on a major, stressful deadline.
We started in May with asking people from church to submit recipes and they had till June 1st to do that. Well, that process took about 1 1/2 weeks longer than it should have because people procrastinated and I still had recipes coming in during early June. So then I had about 6 ladies from church that typed all of the recipes for me...431 total. Then I was in charge of doing all of the proofing so that every recipe was uniform and in the same format. This too of course took way longer than I had planned. There was about a 4 night period the week before the book was due where I was awake until 2:00am proofing. And there were a couple of days where the kids spent the afternoons at my mom's house so that I could have some quiet to get this book done. Besides the actual recipe parts, there was also the front cover and some church personal pages that had to be designed. The company had formats for the cover, divider pages, personal pages etc. but it was still all things that had to be done. The front cover will have a picture of our church and the first inside pages has a very brief history of our church and a couple of "cooking" poems. Long story short, my month of June was gone before I knew it and I probably spent about 60 hours of volunteer work on this book. But, it was submitted before the deadline...ok ok, it was submitted ON the deadline!
The book should be done this fall and we will start selling it then (for $10 I think). (If you'd be interested in buying one when they are available let me know.) There were recipes submitted by myself, my mom, Kristen, Laura and Shirley...probably about 40 total between us. Some people submitted recipes from people from the church that have passed away. We submitted the following from Grandma: (I feel like I'm forgetting one of them but I can't think of what it was)
Peanut Bars
Pastry Bar
Chocolate Cake
Creamy Jello Blocks
Butterscotch Dessert (from Gerda)
(Bonnie: I submitted the Peanut Butter Date Balls recipe! Mmmm)
Also, I thought this poem was so cool so I put this in as one of the personal pages at the front of the book.
We started in May with asking people from church to submit recipes and they had till June 1st to do that. Well, that process took about 1 1/2 weeks longer than it should have because people procrastinated and I still had recipes coming in during early June. So then I had about 6 ladies from church that typed all of the recipes for me...431 total. Then I was in charge of doing all of the proofing so that every recipe was uniform and in the same format. This too of course took way longer than I had planned. There was about a 4 night period the week before the book was due where I was awake until 2:00am proofing. And there were a couple of days where the kids spent the afternoons at my mom's house so that I could have some quiet to get this book done. Besides the actual recipe parts, there was also the front cover and some church personal pages that had to be designed. The company had formats for the cover, divider pages, personal pages etc. but it was still all things that had to be done. The front cover will have a picture of our church and the first inside pages has a very brief history of our church and a couple of "cooking" poems. Long story short, my month of June was gone before I knew it and I probably spent about 60 hours of volunteer work on this book. But, it was submitted before the deadline...ok ok, it was submitted ON the deadline!
The book should be done this fall and we will start selling it then (for $10 I think). (If you'd be interested in buying one when they are available let me know.) There were recipes submitted by myself, my mom, Kristen, Laura and Shirley...probably about 40 total between us. Some people submitted recipes from people from the church that have passed away. We submitted the following from Grandma: (I feel like I'm forgetting one of them but I can't think of what it was)
Peanut Bars
Pastry Bar
Chocolate Cake
Creamy Jello Blocks
Butterscotch Dessert (from Gerda)
(Bonnie: I submitted the Peanut Butter Date Balls recipe! Mmmm)
Also, I thought this poem was so cool so I put this in as one of the personal pages at the front of the book.
My Grandma's Old Cookbook
My grandma’s old cookbook is aged and forlorn.
The pages are grease stained, each faded and worn.
The spine is collapsed and the cover’s askew,
revealing, in no way, what this book could do.
A barrel of cookies, sweet, fresh lemonade,
roasts, casseroles, salads this ancient book made.
It brought love and caring to both young and old,
delivering happiness not bought or sold.
Its owner and user breathed life to this book,
by sharing herself with each recipe cooked.
True gifts from her heart were delivered with love,
presented on earth for her Father above.
Her gentle, sweet kindness was blended with care.
A silent reminder that she had been there
to welcome your newborn…
to ease every ill…
true unselfish gestures of love and goodwill.
So don’t be deceived by the physical book,
but rather… rejoice in the wonderful cook.
Just cherish and honor each frayed, weathered page,
for pure, loving kindness has brought forth its age.
The pages are grease stained, each faded and worn.
The spine is collapsed and the cover’s askew,
revealing, in no way, what this book could do.
A barrel of cookies, sweet, fresh lemonade,
roasts, casseroles, salads this ancient book made.
It brought love and caring to both young and old,
delivering happiness not bought or sold.
Its owner and user breathed life to this book,
by sharing herself with each recipe cooked.
True gifts from her heart were delivered with love,
presented on earth for her Father above.
Her gentle, sweet kindness was blended with care.
A silent reminder that she had been there
to welcome your newborn…
to ease every ill…
true unselfish gestures of love and goodwill.
So don’t be deceived by the physical book,
but rather… rejoice in the wonderful cook.
Just cherish and honor each frayed, weathered page,
for pure, loving kindness has brought forth its age.
by Jane-Ann Heitmeuller
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