Sunday morning worship with the
Heatwoles |
I got up early Sunday morning to work on getting
our children's meeting filled out. Ina Sue slept in. For
church this morning we met at Berea School for a worship service with
the Heatwole clan. The wife & I had the "privilege" of having
children's meeting. We talked about all the changes Grandmother
has seen in her 100 years but that God never changes. The Heatwole
brothers had special singing and cousin-in-law Paul Kauffman brought a
message on "Passing the Faith". The noon meal was a carry-in
dinner with delicious marinated pork supplied. We had a nice time
visiting with cousins then left around 2:30 and went back to the
Showalters to pack up. We left for Govan around 2:30 and arrived
home safely soon after 10:00. A nice weekend but we are really
ready to stay home for a while. |
The Strites with 100 year old
Grandmother. Click picture to enlarge. |
Monday was busy for both of us. Ina Sue did
the washing and tried to rest up a little from the last two weeks.
I had a busy day at work still catching up from my time off. For
supper Ina Sue made us Italian cavatina & fresh salad. I worked on
some Puerto Rico stuff then we went to bed fairly early. |
Dinner at Miller's Bread Basket |
Tuesday morning I had to leave early for work
again. Ina Sue & Carolina went to sewing circle. She said
there wasn't very many ladies there but they did get a lot done.
Ina Sue worked on making little gowns for babies that die in the
hospital. They knocked off around dinner time and I met them in
Blackville for dinner together at Miller's Break Basket. I'm still
really busy at the shop. After work I came home to a delicious
supper of baked parmesan catfish, fresh broccoli salad, french fries,
BarBQ green beans & iced tea. My wife is a chef extraordinaire!
I worked for several hours after supper trying to get our satellite
internet service working again. I even moved my computer out by
the satellite dish to hopefully help in aligning the dish with the
satellite. Nothing seemed to work... So, we're still having
to use dialup. |
A normal scrumptious supper by Ina Sue. |
I spent the day Wednesday rushing around from
service job to service job. Ina Sue said she had a wonderful day
shopping. (I can't imagine) Jane Brubaker very kindly kept
Carolina Sue while Ina Sue drove to Orangeburg to shop for wallpaper and
sundry other things. She was thrilled to find some wallpaper she
liked in-stock at Lowes and at a decent price. We had delicious
L.O.'s for supper then I worked for a while updating this website.
(I was about 3 weeks behind) In between typing I mixed up and made
two batches of dilly rolls for the freezer. |
Trying to fix my satellite i-net connection |
I took the day off Thursday and we worked all day
around the house. Ina Sue fixed us breakfast casserole for
breakfast then I cranked up the chain saw and cut up a tree in our
backyard that the wind had blown over. Ina Sue and Carolina worked
on picking up sticks while I pruned the pear & apple trees. While
working around the garden I noticed that our pecan tree behind the
garden had actually put out some nuts this year. The last several
years our trees have not made good nuts. I thought that this year
was going to be the same but we ended up picking up over 26 pounds of
nuts around that tree. I took the nuts up to Dale at Grower's
Choice to crack out then came back and worked with Ina Sue to pick up
loads of nuts and old pine straw from our backyard. Ina Sue made
us BLT subs for dinner. |
Pruning the pear tree.. |
In the afternoon I worked at planting several rows of onions & some
lettuce beds in the garden. Ina Sue started putting sizing on our
guest bedroom walls in preparation for wallpaper. While she was
working she came to the realization that she couldn't find our step
ladder. When she asked me about it I remembered that I had left it
at the school several months ago while I was working on hooking up a new
phone. Carolina Sue & I drove to the school and picked it up.
For supper we had avocado & onion sandwiches. I had to finish up
the sizing in the bedroom because we were afraid of the fumes affecting
Ina Sue's pregnancy. |
Picking up pecans. |
I got up early and left at 6:00 Friday with Carl
to take a steer to M. Tuten's Butcher shop in Ridgeland. Carl
raised the steer and we are going half & half with him on it. We
are almost completely out of hamburger so we are looking forward to
restocking the freezer. The butcher we took it to is a sprightly
79 year-old that still cuts meat like a young man. We got back to
Govan at 9:00 and I hurried off on service calls. I was very busy
all day long but got most of my calls caught up. Ina Sue cleaned
the house and studied for her sunday school class on Sunday. For
supper we had razor-back cornbread with collard greens. I cannot
imagine that anyone who has tasted my wife's collard greens wouldn't
like them.... After supper Ina Sue baked a cake and made custard
then worked on catching up the finances. I took care of the
munchkin... |
Bruno (our future hamburger)
enjoying his last few minutes of existence. |
I had big plans of getting all kinds of stuff done
outside on Saturday. We woke up though and it was cold &
raining. After a breakfast of pon-haus I started working on
cleaning our and defrosting our big freezer to get it ready for the
incoming hamburger. After I got it cleaned out Ina Sue helped
supervise the re-packing. Ina Sue spent most of the rest of the
day cooking. I cleaned out our shop and the lean-to behind it.
Then I started hanging the wallpaper in the guest room. I thought
for sure I could get it all done in the afternoon but I still have about
8 ft still of wall still to go. Gordon Amstutzs came over for
supper around 7:00. Ina Sue served us chicken cordon bleu
casserole, french cut beans, a special salad with cottage cheese &
bacon, and some of my dilly rolls. For dessert: vanilla
tapioca with chocolate cake. We had a nice time visiting together
until around 10:00. Now they are gone & I am working on this while
Ina Sue puts the finishing touches on her sunday school lesson. |
.Ina Sue's brother Robert sent us
this picture of their tractor going up in smoke.... |
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Hanging wallpaper in guest room |
Gordon & Gwen with Carolina Sue |