Category Archives: Breads and Muffins

Breads and Muffins, Breakfast

Haystack brunch and Old Christmas/Epiphany gatherings mark beginning of 2016

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The Christmas holidays and family get-togethers are now over for another year. Yesterday, January 6, was Old Christmas (Epiphany) so everyone was home for the day. It was a day well spent with family. I had a baked meal with the menu consisting of meat loaf, scalloped potatoes, baked beans, lettuce salad, cheese, dill pickles, … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Breakfast

Who will be the donkey? Fun game for your holiday season plus pumpkin pancakes!

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It’s Thanksgiving week already! We will have my sisters Verena and Susan and sister Emma, Jacob, and family here for Thanksgiving dinner and also all of our family. I am planning to prepare two turkeys plus all the trimmings. Son Benjamin, 16, was excited last week to shoot his first deer. My husband Joe and Benjamin … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Vegetables

Pondering on the porch in the cool of a summer evening

We are officially in the summer months now. We have had a few cool nights, with the temperature in the 50s by morning. Sure makes for good sleeping after some hot evenings with temperature in the 80s. Actually, this morning we had to close most of our windows. The thermometer showed 54 degrees. Not really … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Breakfast

Wedding preparations for nephew’s wedding keep Lovina up late

It is Wednesday evening and I should be in bed already but this column has to be written. Today, sisters Emma, Verena, Susan and I traveled the two hours to Berne, Indiana and picked up sister Liz and headed to nephew Levi’s fiancée’s house for final wedding preparations. Levi is the son of my oldest sister … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Desserts

Smells like spring: boiling fresh maple syrup and laundry drying outside

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Spring will officially be here this week as I write this! Monday was a very beautiful day with the temperature going up in the 60s. We hung all the laundry outside to dry. It was so nice to be able to fold all the clothes and put them away the same day. Susan’s friend Mose tapped … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Breakfast, Desserts

Ringing in the new year with a party for 24

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This is the final day of 2014 as I write. A brand new year awaits us. May God be our guide as we travel into the unknown future. Sister Emma, Jacob and family, and sisters Verena and Susan and all the girls' special friends plan to be here for supper tonight. We will then play games … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins

Amish wedding and Coblentz reunion highlight week

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Such a lovely July morning. My wash and wringer machine is working again now, and it would be a great laundry day but we don’t have any hot water. A service man will come out this morning to look at our gas water heater. Hopefully after he gets it going there will still be time … Continue Reading ››