Friday, April 29, 2011

Family Recipe Friday: Margaret Post's Apple Pie



My mother's recipe for Apple Pie....this recipe looks too easy to believe!  I've never made it as the recipe has been in the hands of my sister since our parent's death.  Mom was an excellent cook.  I'll be buying some Granny Smith apples at the grocery store soon!  Margaret Troyer Post was the daughter of Elmer and Mary (Motzko) Troyer, the grand-daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer and Philipp and Maria (Fietzek) Motzko, and the great-grand-daughter of Yost and Martha (Plank) SchrockJohn and Elizabeth (Yoder) Troyer, Franz and Francesca (Piechota) Moczko, and Martin and Catherina (Dyga) Fietzek

Mary Post Warren
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Wordless Wednesday (Almost): Swan Lake


Swan Lake - received from hub's cousin Carl Stanislaus
So peaceful and contentful (is that a word?).  Makes me think of a summer day at the lake.

Mary Post Warren
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Memories - The Runaway


This is the story of one very little boy (about the age of the cutie in this picture)...who decided one day he just had to run away from home because - well who even remembers!?   He diligently packed his bag, and a little food from the kitchen, found a sleeping bag and sauntered out of the back door.  I can't remember what he was upset enough about to decide to 'run away' but we decided to call his bluff and let him go.  We lived in a safe neighborhood and knew he wouldn't go far.  (Today we would NEVER let him go out by himself).

About 15 minutes later the hubs went out to check on him...nope, not in back and not in front either.  But after a short search we found him all set up under the pool table in the garage.  When we asked him why he chose this spot to 'run away' to, he replied "well, you told me I couldn't go across the street by myself and there was no where else to go!' .....gotta love those memories!

The sweety next to him in this picture is his older sister...doesn't she just look tickled pink!

Mary Post Warren
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Resurrection Sunday - He Is Risen

 2001 - Jerusalem, Israel - The Empty Tomb

                                                                

Matthew 28:6




He is not here: for he is RISEN, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.


Mary Post Warren
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Family Recipe Friday: Mrs. Troyer's Brown Sugar Cookies

One of my Great-Grandmother Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer's recipes.  This is an awesome way to use up that brown sugar that always turns hard on you and then is not useable. I can't even begin to count the number of half full boxes of brown sugar I've had to just toss.  Plus they are very easy to make.

Mary Post Warren
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Hood Ornament

I'm sure he's up there thinking 'how come dinner hasn't been started yet? I'm hungry!'

Mary Post Warren
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Memories - The Laundry

It was a Monday morning...it had been raining all weekend and the weather man  said there was no sign of a let up before the end of the week.  We had a house full of teenagers and they needed clean clothes to wear.  I had done the laundry over the weekend with the hopes the rain would let up long enough for them to dry on the clothes line, the dryer was broken.  Alas, that was not to happen.

The hubs worked graveyard shift and was expected home shortly after I left for work so I left a note for him - "please take these clothes to the laundromat and dry them"....I set the note and the clothes on top of the counter.  No problem, I figure.

I came home..the hubs was all grins..."yep", he said, looking proud as a peacock - "got the clothes dried, folded, and put away".  I was happy...more than I expected.

BUT........there was a problem - hubs had NOT taken the basket of clean clothes that was sitting on the counter by the note, he had picked up another basket that was sitting on the floor and still needed to be washed!  The result - since there was no figuring out which clothes in the dressers were clean or dirty - we wore a lot of dirty clothes for that week!

 
Mary Post Warren
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Mystery Monday: Old Dunkard Church

 I found the below postcard in the book I purchased from e-bay "Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler" by Harvey Hostetler.






I find the hole punches  around the postcard.  I wonder why this was done?



Down the left hand side of the postcard it reads:

"Raphael Tuck & Sons' Series No.#2575 "Antietam Battlefield Md.
"PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN"
Photochromed in Saxony


   THE OLD DUNKARD CHURCH is about one mile from Sharpsburg on Hagerstown Pike.  It was built by the German Baptist in 1853, and used by them as a regular place of worship. Some of the most severe fighting of the Battle of Antietam occurred about here, and after the battle, the church was used as a hospital and embalming station. During the battle the bible was taken by a New York soldier, and after an absence of 41 years was returned and is now occupying its old place on the pulpit.

The Battle of Antietam - click on link to read tons of information on this battle during the Civil War.
Know anything about this postcard or the Hochstetler/Hostetler families? Please contact me using the e-mail address to the right under my picture.

Mary Post Warren
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Happy Birthday to My Father-in-Law


Today would have been my father-in-law's 106th birthday.  I only knew him a little over a year when he passed away in 1966.  He was born July 16, 1905 in Louisville Kentucky to Archie and Emma Warren.  He died July 16, 1965.

I didn't know my father-in-law very well...he died a couple of months after the picture was taken with our first son.  That's how I remember him.  I remember the time I drove our car from Laguna Beach to Long Beach by myself - with a small baby, he thought the hubs was terrible for letting me do such a thing. Women's lib was yet to come!!




Mary Post Warren
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Family Recipe Friday: Mrs.Troyer's Chocolate Loaf Cake

Joseph and Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer were my great-grandparents on my mother's side, through her father Elmer TroyerJoseph and Elizabeth had five children - William Franklin, Ella May, Jesse Edward (died as infant of 2 months), Elmer David, and Edith Magaline (aka Edie).  She was the third child of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.

My mother had several of  "Mrs. Troyer's" recipes...all of these recipes were very simple, of course made from scratch, recipes.  Today I share with you her recipe for:



"Mrs. Troyer's" Chocolate Loaf Cake

1 cup sugar - 2 cups flour - 1/4 cup cocoa - sift together
4 Tables(poon) melted shortening
1 cup sour milk (to sour- 2 Tables(poon) vinegar or lemon juice in cup of milk)
Vanilla
     Beat well.
1 teas(poon) in 2 or 3 teas(poons) hot water
     DO NOT BEAT AFTER ADDING SODA
350 Deg(ree) for 1 hour 20 to 30 min(utes)


Mary Post Warren
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Thursday Treasure - Our First Car

August 1964 Us with our 1964 Dodge Dart

A week before we got married  hubs and I broke off the engagement....long story, not needed to be shared here.  Anyway, to help mend his broken heart he took the rings back, got the money back, and immediately went to the car dealership and put the money down on this brand new beauty! (NOT me, but the car)  A couple days later we were back together and then off to Las Vegas to get married. The funny part about it is the lady at the jewelry store where he purchased and returned my rings had set the rings aside seeming to know he would be back.  Hubs dad loaned him to $$$ to get the rings out of hock. 

The purchase amount on the car was as much as a down payment is now....$2,700.  Amazing - and it was just yesterday that cars were that cheap.


Mary Post Warren
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Goat Cart


Hub's cousin Carl's wife's (Margie) friend - Birdie Woodruff (deceased)

 
Mary Post Warren
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

150th Civil War Aniversary - April 12, 2011


Edmond Scott Burgess

Uncle Edmond Scott Burgess 1816 (1828) - 1864 was Union soldier, and a Civil War prisoner, who died in Andersonville prison. Wife: A. Knickerbocker of New York.

He was the uncle of Lydia Louisa Burgess, and her brother Edmond Scott Burgess of 1852 (a namesake). Their father, Daniel W. Burgess was hubs great-great grandfather and Lydia was my hubs great grandmother.

(Thanks to hubs cousin Carl for his help with this information and much more info to come on the Burgess-Gibson-Engel families)

Mary Post Warren
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Mystery Monday: Who Is Nora H?

Nora H 1906 - This picture was
originallly much smaller, more the
size of the backside of photo
on right.
wrtten on back of left hand picture

These pictures were very hard to work with - they are both no more than a fingernail in size...but when scanned they came up fairly large...just not easy for 'playing' with and 'setting up' in a blog.  I have no idea who this Nora H (1906) is - her picture and the note attached to it were in an envelope...the picture was so tiny it was almost overlooked. 

Nora is a beautiful youg woman - looks to be in the 14 to 16 age group.  The picture, backside of picture, and note were all in an envelope waiting for her to open it.  It was inside the book I purchased on e-bay "Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler' by Henry Hostettler.  Also with the picture was this note written in 197? (I assume that the 'H' on the back of the picture stands for either Hochstetler or Hostettler.)

Who's Hank? Who's Sis? Who is Aunt Emma Larabee and who is Fern?


Mary Post Warren
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

My Old Kentucky Home


1953 - My Old Kentucky Home
 Archie Hillery Warren was born on March 15, 1874 in Green Kentucky, less than 100 miles from Louisville where he spent the majority of his 102 years.  He died on July 8, 1976.

These pictures were taken in 1953 when hubs and his family drove from Long Beach, California to Kentucky to visit his grandfather.  Some of the original pictures have the word's 'my old Kentucky home' written on the back of them.  According to the hubs this is where his father grew up.  I can see 2 people in the first photo, a man in lower left corner and a woman (I think) on the porch.  The house is/was located in Louisville Kentucky.



 1953 - Ball Hallow Kentucky
 Hubs remembers traveling to Kentucky in this car with his mom and dad and two sisters.  He remembers the trip being long and boring, and only stopping for food and gas. 

I could not find much on the Ball Hallow area of Kentucky except that it's about 300+ miles south east of Louisville. It looks like it may be in the mountains.  From the little I could find by googling it, it seems to be touted as a resort area today.
1953 Left to right: Archie, either Clyde or Clayborn,
Manuel, either Clyde or Clayborn Warren
1953 Back of  "My Old Kentucky Home"





 

 






Mary Post Warren
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Family Recipe Friday: Mrs Troyer's Tamali Pie

"Mrs. Troyer" was my maternal grandfather's mother...Elizabeth Schrock Troyer.  She was also the third child (first daughter) of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.  My sister and I found this recipe, and others, among my mother's old recipes (no I have not misspelled 'tamale' in the title - it is spelled with an 'i' on the recipe card).  Whether this is an error on the part of the person who typed the recipe, the actual way my great-grandmother spelled it, or an alternative way of spelling 'tamale' I do not know.

I've not used the recipe, although I may use it soon.  I love Mexican food.  I'm not sure what "Grandma's Spanish Pepper"....I assume it's a homemade spice that could be replaced with a similar McCormick or Schilling spice, or make your own with chili powder and other spices.


Mrs. Troyer's Tamali Pie

1 cup cornmeal (cooked thick)
Brown pork in skillet - take out and make plenty of gravy. Put meat back in gravy-add onions, garlic and seasoning.  Cook for approximately 1hour or until pork is very tender.
Line greased baking dish with mush-pour in pork mixture-add 1teas<poon> (heaping) of Grandma's Spanish Pepper which has been mixed with a little hot water.  Add ripe olives and bake for 1/2 hour at 400.


Mary Post Warren
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Daring to Go Where No (Wo) Man Has Gone Before

With a little trepidation and no fear I dare to go where no (wo)man has gone before  -  tracking the life of one Archie (Archibald?) Warren.  Archie is/was hubs paternal grandfather.  VERY little is known on him - even from his one living daughter. As you can tell by the picture we celebrated his 99th birthday - he lived to be 102.  But NO one can remember dates (all the more reason to date EVERY photo!). He died within three years of this picture being taken...my guess is sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's. 

I was never blessed with meeting my grandfather-in-law as we were busy raising our family and, well, I guess I just didn't realize how important it was to do it then.  How I wish I could go back in time!

What I know about Archie is minimal - he married (no dates) twice, he had 3 children by each wife.  Hubs grandmother was Emma (no last name, no birth date, no death date).  I guesstimate that Archie and Emma married about 1900-1905 as hub's father was born on April 16, 1905.  This would put Archie (if he married young) born about 1880.  The census records for 1910 though 1930 put him between 1875 and 1878 for a birth date (no actual date given in the records, just age at time census taken).  Fortunately, most of Archie's children had fairly unusual names...the first three were Manuel, Ather, and Clyde.  The second three were Colburn, Otis, and daughter Doris.  According to 1930 census records the mother of the last three children was Lillie (no last name, no birth date, no death date).  When I first started my researching I did not even have names for the wives....no one could remember.  This is hard for me to comprehend since, although my mother did not divulge all her information, what she did tell us was written down and verified.

By using the 1910 to 1930 census records I was able to verify the names and approximate ages of all but Doris.  She was born after 1930 and should show up in the 1940 census - thank God, less than a year to wait for this.  It looks to be that all children were born in Louisville Kentucky.  Census records too show that Archie was born in Kentucky and so were both his wives.


Mary Post Warren
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Memories of Yost and Martha Schrock - Part 19 - The Finale

This is the second part of Part 19 and is also THE FINALE on the book of  "Memories of Yost and Martha Schrock"....I am not positive as to when these memories were originally written but I do know it was before 1963 when my grandfather died. 

Nancy Schrock Priser was the eighth child of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.  She married Benjamin Frank Priser probably between 1875 and 1887. They had three known children John Wesley Priser (born: 11.23.1887), Fred Earl Priser (12.8.1892), and George W. Priser (2.22.1896).

Aunt Nan Priser Memories (Part 2):
(Written by Bessie (Schrock) Sherck)

The family was too large to all go to church in one buggy, so some always had to stay at home.  My father had a sweet tooth and said if they left him home he would eat all the scarps (preserves).

She said she remembered the first binder Grandpa had and how hard they still had to work to get the grain harvested.

Aunt Clara had a little rocking chair and one day as she was rocking her doll, she said "Blessed Jesus allus faln nuner" (Everything falls down).

She remembered when Father and Mother lived with them and the door that separated their part had a big crack under it.  Grandma had asthma and sneezed a lot.  Carrie liked to go to Grandma's too often so she would lie on the floor and listen if they called her.  When Grandma would sneeze she would say "Calling me Grandma? Well I come."

She said when she was 10 years old Grandma told her she would have to knead the bread because she want to make a new dress to go to my Mother and Father's wedding. So she did and was she proud of her nice bread. She told of the big bake oven and how Grandpa used to make the fire and when it was hot enough (they tried tit by putting their hand in to test the heat) he would pull out the fire and it was ready for the bread and pies.  He made a bench to put the pies and bread on until the oven was hot.  The bread went in first then the pies.  She had one iron pan  about 6 inches in diameter which, when the loaf was baked, would be about 10 or 12 inches high.  She said when it was done they used to cut the hot crust off and spread it with fresh butter, Oh, how good it was.

She also told about butchering day. With such a family 6 or 8 hogs had to be butchered.  They put the sides in a large jar and pieces were cut to fit the jar.  They put in one layer of side and one of sausage until the jar was full.  A brine, which bore an egg, was poured over it and when they wanted some buckwheat cakes it would be put to soak the evening before.  She said it was "Oh, so good."  The hams and shoulders were smoked with good old hickory and stored in the upstairs over the summer house.  I can almost smell and taste them now.  She said before they had sausage grinders they chopped the sausage.  She said Uncle Issac was good at that.  He was so active and used to dance around so fast.  Made sort of a a game of it.

The young people in those days did not have so many places to go, so entertained themselves at home.  They had games of hide the thimble, drop the handkerchief, and many others.  They sang a lot too while someone played the organ, but when things would get too lively like:

                                          Krinkly, cranky is the song,
                                          Sing it and dance it all the day long,
                                          From the top and to the toe,
                                          Sing and dance it as you go"

Grandpa would come to the door and say "That's is enough", and it was.

I can remember about 4 o'clock every  evening hearing Grandpa call "pe-pe".  It was time to start chores when he called the chickens.

I am very fortunate to be living so close to Aunt Nan in these wonderful last years of her life and have enjoyed helping her collect these memories to be handed down to future generations.  Her wonderful sense of humor and Christian spirit tell more than words of the atmosphere of Grandpa and Grandma's home and the influence of that home is still going on.


(Editor's notes: Again Nan Priser was Yost and Martha Schrock's 8th child. Her memories told to her niece Bessie Schrock Sherck who was Elias and Nancy (Hoover) Schrock's 2nd child. Elias Schrock was Yost and Martha Schrock's 4th child and one of Nan Schrock Priser's older brothers.

Paragraph 3: Clara was the 10th child of  Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock; Paragraph 4: Carrie was  Yost and Martha Schrock's granddaughter via their 2nd son Elias, she was also Bessie's (author of above) sister; Paragraph 6: Issac was second child of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock).

Know anything about anyone mentioned in this post? Please contact me using the e-mail address to the right under my picture.

Mary Post Warren
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Postcard - Reformed Church and Cemetery


Found in book 'Descendants of Jacob Hochstettler'
By Harvey Hostetler (1912)
purchased from e-bay February 2011

Know anything about this or this cemetery? Please contact me using the e-mail address to the right under my picture.

Mary Post Warren
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Memories of Yost and Martha Schrock - part 19

Nancy Schrock Priser was the eighth child of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.  She married Benjamin Frank Priser probably between 1875 and 1887. They had three known children John Wesley Priser (born: 11.23.1887), Fred Earl Priser (12.8.1892), and George W. Priser (2.22.1896).

Aunt Nan Priser Memories (Part 1):
(Written by Bessie (Schrock) Sherck)

I invited Aunt Nan to spend a day with us to rehearse the memories of her dear old home.

While we made quilt blocks we talked and laughed as she told many interesting happenings.  I will try to write them as she told them to me.

She said Grandpa had a firey horse named Ben. One day he hitched Ben to the buggy and Grandma, Uncle Will, Aunt Sarah and a big basket of eggs in the buggy and started for town.  Now as they started, Grandma said, "Now do be careful".  "Oh," said Grandpa, "I'll saw him down", and at that he cracked the whip and off started Ben on the run.  The buggy hit a high spot at the side of the lane and spilled them all out, eggs and all.  They had a lot of scrambled eggs.  Aunt Sarah had a broken arm.

One time Aunt Nan went out the north way past the grape vines.  A pig pen was close by. When she came in the house she said, "I found a new nest at the sie sthall (pig pen) in the grass with one oye (egg) in it.  Dutch and English seemed to be mixed up badly in their talk.  Aunt Mary and Aunt Nan went to school together but one day Aunt Mary was not feeling well, so told Aunt Nan if the teacher asked why she did not come to tell her she was too "foul".  Now Aunt Nan knew foul meant rotten in English so she told the teacher she was too rotten.

Here is her recipe for fried cheese which she said Grandma used, which first came from the Weavers'.
  • Scald clabbered milk until it can be crumbed between the fingers.  Put into a bowl and mix with 1/2 teaspoon soda to the gallon of milk and a pinch of salt.  Pour in a hot skillet in which butter has been melted.  Stir constantly until the curds are all creamy, being careful not to scrape the bottom of the skillet.  There will be a crust that can be taken out and eaten.
Once when Grandma was frying cheese, Aunt Sarah was standing by to get the crust and Grandma took it out and ran for the orchard and Aunt Sarah after her.  She did not remember which won but I should think they shared it as that was the spirit of the family.

Once Aunt Nan and Uncle Will were playing together in the back barn (Uncle Will always seemed to get the worst end).  Grandpa said they should not open the East door that went to the barnyard below.  Of course, like modern children, they wanted to open the door to see what would happen.  Aunt Nan unhooked the door and down one side went because the one hinge was off.  She told Uncle Will to run down in the barnyard and take the rake and push the door up so she could hook it again.  But instead the other hinge broke and down went the door and broke Uncle Will's collar bone.  When Grandpa came home he did not scold but said, "We'll wait until morning to see how he is".  Of course, by morning they found out it was broken.

Another time they were playing by the bake house.  Things were not going so well so Will called Aunt Nan an Alt Sow (Old Sow).  Grandma heard them and said the next one who said that would get penned up.  So Aunt Nan thought she would try to see what would happen.  Grandma heard her and in she went to the little hall between the bedroom and living room which also was the way to the cellar.  She said she slipped out and ran down the cellar and out the outside way.  She said Grandma let her go which sounds like Grandma.

TO BE CONTINUED LATER THIS WEEK - THE FINALE.

(Editor's notes: Again Nan Priser was Yost and Martha Schrock's 8th child. Her memories told to Bessie Schrock Scherck who was Elias and Nancy (Hoover) Schrock's 2nd child. Elias Schrock was Yost and Martha Schrock's 4th child and one of Nan Schrock Priser's older brothers.)

Sarah is presumed to be Yost Schrock's sister; Will was William Schrock (Yost and Martha Schrock's 9th child); Mary was Mary Jane Schrock (Yost and Martha Schrock's 6th child; Weavers were Levi and Emma Weaver...Emma was Yost and Martha's 5th child).  Hope all this makes sense!)

Know anything about anyone mentioned in this post? Please contact me using the e-mail address to the right under my picture.

Mary Post Warren
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Follow-up on 2011 Goals/Resolutions

My April update on my 2011 goals/resolutions....It seems that with my Kindle I received for Chrismas from my kids that my genealogy research has been pushed to the back burner and I've become a reading freak again!  And with hubs sister being sick we are spending much time traveling back and forth to visit her. Please pray for her as it's terminal.  The Kindle comes in handy while hubs drives, I read.

My goals for the year and their current status:
  1. Read 5 chapters of the Bible daily -  ON TRACK:   I'm halfway through with Job.  Job is a much easier chapter in the Bible to read than the first several chapters. This is a hard goal to keep but I make it a top priority.                                                        
    2.  Read 2 books a month - ON TRACK: Since the first of January I've read:   
  •   O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"   (January)
  •   Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (January) 
  •   Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"  (February)
  •   L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"  (February)
  •   Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould's "The Amish Midwife" (March)
  •   Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"   (March)
  •   Leslie Gould's "Garden of Dreams"  (March)
  •   Patricia Davids' "Katie's Redemption"  (March)
  •   Cindy Woodsmall's "The Hope of Refuge" (March)
  •  Tracie Peterson's "A Dream to Call My Own" (March)
  •  Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" (March)
Three of the seven books read in March are Amish fiction.  My g-g-grandfather was raised Amish and then shunned by the Amish when he joined the Brethern Church. I'm reading these books trying to learn more of the ways and history behind how he and his ancestors lived.  Sort of genealogy related!

   3.  Volunteer in the school library - sort of ON TRACK 
currently working in the library, after I get off work, a day or two a week....but took a couple weeks off because of 'Spring Vacation' and 'short days' that involved parent/teacher conferences.

   4.  Research family info and blog a minimum of 3 days a week  -  Not doing too well on this
  • Was VERY excited when I received a response to January 27th blog from a 3rd cousin.  We both share the same g-g-grandparents...Yost and Martha Schrock. We are communicating via e-mail sharing our information.
  • I'm working on typing up the "Memories of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock (my maternal g-g-grandparents).  I am down to just one 'memory' to share and will be posting that next week.
  • I have had contact from my hubs cousin who has researched their grandmother back to her ancestors arriving on the Mayflower.   
   5.  Attend a genealogy convention - ON TRACK
  • went to AZ Family History Expo in Mesa AZ a few weeks ago.
  • Trying to squeeze in an online classes.
   6.  Get my zucchini to grow this year (last year I got none) -
bought 2 kinds of zucchini seeds and some crockneck squash plus some pumpkin seeds.  Got all the squash planted and will plant the pumpkin in a few months.  The plants have been fertilized, watered, and nutured.   Now all I have to do is pray it will grow!

   7.  More canning and freezing of fresh fruits and veggies (either grown by me or given to us by neighbor)

Received a ton of oranges, lemons, grapefruit from some friends.  Hubs is my 'squeezer' and an awesome job he does of it. Fresh orange juice and lemonaide all summer!  Will work on the spring crop of veggies and other fruit as they come in.

Bought a freezer from a friend - now my freezer part of the refrigerator won't be so jam packed.  Looking forward to putting the freezer to good use!

   8.  Walk more - Falling a little behind on this

...since hubs is not working and I've got a car everyday it's too easy to just hop in it and drive to work. 

Pray for my sis-in-law (hubs older sis) who has terminal cancer, diagnosed a couple months ago.  She is not doing chemo or radiation because of too many other medical issues.

Cried out to my Phoenix friends on facebook asking if anyone had a freezer they would like to sell, and low and behold I got a response and it's cheap and only three years old.  We get to have it end of April.  Oh the wonders of technology!

Made a couple trips to Long Beach CA to visit my sister-in-law (mentioned above), plus on the trip over spring break we were able to visit #1 and #2 sons, my sister, and go by my nephew and his wifes new coffee shop .

Mary Post Warren
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