Mary's Musings

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) Schrock, John and Elizabeth (Yoder) Troyer, Franz and Francesca (Piechota) Moczko, and Martin and Catherina (Dyga) Fietzek

Mary Post Warren

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

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

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

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

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

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