Category Archives: Side Dishes

Side Dishes, Vegetables

Stuck buttons, Abigail helps Grandma, and tight hugs

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I’m sitting outside here by the grill as daughter Loretta grills hamburgers for our supper. We will also have vegetable soup with the hamburgers. The hamburgers are from our freezer which we packed individually last winter after butchering beef. This pack of hamburgers had cheese added. Today daughter Elizabeth and Abigail plus daughter Susan and Jennifer … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Vegetables

Little Abigail gets introduced to the Coblentz family water battles

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Little Abigail gets introduced to the Coblentz family water battles  It looks dark towards the southeast like a storm could be forming. We sure could use the rain. It’s been dry this week. We watered the gardens a few times this week but hoped it would rain tonight. Our soil is sandy so all the rain … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Soups

Lovina’s daughters and all five sisters surprise Lovina on her birthday

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Lovina’s daughters and all five sisters surprise Lovina on her birthday My 47th birthday was May 22. My daughters wanted me to spend the day with all of them at daughter Elizabeth’s house. When I walked in the house it was decorated with balloons and Happy Birthday banners.Continue Reading ››
Breakfast, Side Dishes

Birthdays, Mother’s Day, and Wednesday with daughters: all good

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First of all, daughter Lovina will be 14 tomorrow, May 18. A happy birthday to her! Also, happy 25th birthday today, May 17, to my niece Elizabeth. We are invited to her parents (sister Liz and husband Levi) on Saturday for a surprise birthday party for Elizabeth. With so much gardening and spring work it doesn’t … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Snacks

Life goes on: preparing for a wedding reception without Amos

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Life goes on: preparing for a wedding reception without Amos It’s Thursday, April 5. Today is niece Lisa and Matthew’s wedding reception in Berne, Indiana. Lisa is brother Amos and Nancy’s daughter—the third from youngest out of ten siblings. Matthew and Lisa joined hands together as one on January 20. They were going to wait to have … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, Potatoes, Side Dishes

Attentive doctor reminds his patients to trust God

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Spring has arrived—or at least that’s what the calendar says! We did have some nice sunny days, with the mercury on the thermometer reaching almost 60 degrees. We have taken advantage of the weather and dried the laundry outside on the clotheslines. It sure makes it so much fresher than when it’s dried in the … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, Side Dishes, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Vegetables

Where Lovina hopes to be over a bug at Thanksgiving!

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Where Lovina hopes to be over a bug at Thanksgiving! It’s Wednesday morning and we have lots to do today. I think I have some kind of stomach flu. It makes me feel weak so I haven’t moved too far from my recliner yet. Hopefully I will feel better soon. I do not have time to … Continue Reading ››
Canning and Freezing, Side Dishes, Snacks

After buying wedding groceries, groceries for church services are “nothing”

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Monday after we were done hanging out the laundry we took time out of our busy schedule to watch the solar eclipse. We didn’t have any special glasses but held three pair of dark sunglasses together to see the moon pass in front of the sun. It was amazing to see! Only God can arrange … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Vegetables

Corralling nine horses: all in a day’s work for Lovina

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Diary of May 10, 2017 7:00 a.m. Lovina and Kevin leave for school with the bus. Joseph bikes to school because he can be home 45 minutes longer. With the chores he does, biking doesn’t make him so rushed. School is only three miles from here so it doesn’t take him long. 7:30 a.m. I made grilled … Continue Reading ››