tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134865078073334592024-02-18T19:15:04.159-08:00Looking in my Rearview MirrorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-14026538810582419962014-06-10T20:29:00.002-07:002014-06-10T20:29:34.067-07:00How I Deal With Depression<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart is so full tonight. Full of emotion. Good. Bad. In-between.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever feel that way? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I visited with one of my dear friends for nearly two hours tonight and in those hours she opened up and told me happy things and sad things. She remembers details as far back to even having a vague memory at one and half years of age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a gift she gave me to open up and allow me to see inside her heart a little bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along that note I had a very upside down day all day today, nearly in tears at times. I despise when I feel that way. Makes me feel like an immature schoolgirl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a lot in my world that I should feel blessed about and I should never dwell on what is wrong, but some days one is faced with what is wrong more than other days and such was my day today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I keep reminding myself that God knows the big picture and knows what is good for me to experience and even though I don't understand the situation I'm in all the time I can rest that he knows what he is doing with my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trusting God with my life is hard for me to do sometimes. I like to plan out what is next and over and over again I keep hearing him whisper, "not now." I feel like trust is the one area that I lack discipline in and I know he has been developing that character in me over the past couple of years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've learned a lot but some days I'm afraid I have to learn even more, maybe much, much more. I'm not always sure I'm up for that challenge. I'm just being honest. I don't always have everything together. I know when I write out things here on my blog I can make it all sound so good and fine, but at the end of the day not everything is always peaches and cream in my life. I battle with depression, some times more than others. I am battling with it a bit again at the moment. I really despise depression. It makes me feel low and like I'm not alright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the ways I've been dealing with my depression is getting in my car and driving around, enjoying the landscape of our area. It takes my focus off of me and I end up feeling better after I've gotten out in the fresh air and daylight. I drove around for two hours this past weekend and I got a bunch of pictures. Following you will see what was part of my therapy session. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy my loves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me, this looks like it could have been taken out in the Wild West, but it was taken right here in Wayne County, Ohio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This farm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it so much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is just so pretty. We pass it when we go do our food shopping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The garden is just so lovely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off in the distance to the east of the garden lies another farm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So picturesque.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something about this picture that brings me pause, I think it is the very humble, rustic sign with the new-fangled high tech tower in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another very humble sign. But look at its backdrop. So beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Closed Sunday or No Sunday Sales on nearly every sign you come across in Amish Country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The red barn against the luscious forest and the colors so vibrant. Like something out of a well planned movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pond nestled at the bottom of a long hill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This house and barn and windmill all seemed to be peeking at me over the hill from where I stood taking in my surroundings. I thought they looked a bit comical, so I got their picture too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love driveways. They bring so much character to a property. This one would be hard to navigate through at the moment, but at the end of that driveway is a little farm and I love this setting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Old Glory waving at folks who are passing by. So beautiful when you see this spot in person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A farm I found on the corner of the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A field of corn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How precious is this little family?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-56168482195057200542014-06-09T19:14:00.000-07:002014-06-09T19:14:19.009-07:00Is it Okay to Take Pictures of the Amish? <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After dinner tonight and some puttering around the house we went over to our Amish friend's house to visit them. He is the one who I talked about awhile back, he had his one foot and ankle all smashed and is now at home healing up. We try to visit them once a week, but we missed last week because we were ....too busy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we made it over to visit them tonight and we had a couple hours of good conversation, first out by their porch swing and later when it cooled off we went indoors and finished our visit in the warmth of their home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to say, I read a comment on someone's Facebook page where the person commenting made the point they believe it is disrespectful to take pictures of the Amish when one knows that they don't like to have their picture taken. I always hesitate and generally refrain from taking pictures of the Amish for that reason. When I'm in that situation of getting ready to take a picture of an Amish person I remember how I felt sitting in the buggy and a tourist type would stop alongside the road and would snap our pictures. We would try to hide in the buggy so they couldn't get us and I still remember that feeling today...that feeling of being stalked and hunted down and having my picture taken against my will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In today's world, I see many Amish taking pictures of each other and their children, especially the ones who have cameras in their cell phones. A lot of Amish are much more relaxed about having their pictures taken, and will even purchase disposable cameras to take along on vacations so they can take pictures. There are still the more strict Amish out there who are very much against it and probably have that stalked and hunted feeling when someone is trying to take their pictures. It is always best to be careful and not be too blatant about the picture taking when one is out and about, but when the opportunity is good and you can be discreet I think it is okay to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't like to take pictures through windshields, but in this case, you get a picture through the windshield. Amish folks walking to church and going to to church via the horse and buggy. The walkers were carrying a Tupperware container of cookies and the folks on the buggy offered to take the cookies off their hands and bring them to church with them on the buggy. How nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Amish eat a light meal after church, the hosts of the church service provide deli meats and cheeses and bread and the ladies of the church will bring cookies or pies along so that not all the baking lies on the shoulders of the hostess to get ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, through the windshield and I could not get a clear shot at all. So bummed, but I had to show you anyway. This was so cute as a button...the little guy peeking around the corner and the little gal in the back looking out at us. It was...Cuteness, Inc! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is so beautiful around here right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The valley just out of Walnut Creek, Oh. That is State Route 515 winding through the valley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was trying to capture some vultures flying around me overhead. I was not able to capture their picture, however, in the process of trying - I got this white streak depending on how I was turning my camera. I liked it so I'm sharing with you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you see a little bit of a roof hidden away in among the trees? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this old barn. The whole farm is awesome to look at really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The horse also has a big blue ball in the pasture to play with. The horse's neighbors are our friends and from what I understand the horse plays with the ball at times. I want to see that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A field of mustard. I know the farmers don't like it..but I do love the color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally speaking, I'm not a blonde. With the help of a genius hair stylist my hair is some version of blonde every six weeks. Because of the blonde thing I have going on I can sometimes live up to all the jokes that are out there about blondes. I can be as gullible as the next blonde over, but a dizzy blonde, well that is a whole other story! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I think back I'm not really sure when this dizzy thing really began for me, I know all the way back in the early 1990's I had some episodes of feeling dizzy when I had ridden on a train, but have come to learn that that was just motion sickness. I know that in the past couple of years it has kept me from getting out of my bed at least 5 or 6 different mornings, maybe a few more. It absolutely stops me in my tracks and renders me completely helpless. I lay in bed and the room spins and I make myself sleep, even though I have to pee like mad most times but there is no way to get out of bed. It is a wonder I haven't stirred up an old UTI over the past few episodes because I would "hold it" rather than suffer the consequences of lifting my head off the pillow and making myself walk to the bathroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two weeks ago I had a bad episode where I was in bed for two days and never did fully recover from the dizzy feelings. I got better and went on with my life, but surely I was not fit to get in my car and drive down the road most days. But I did. Why? Because I have responsibilities and things to do and places to go. The only sigh of relief in my day was the moment I pulled in our driveway and I knew I was home again for another day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, on Monday morning, I woke up with that dizzy feeling again, I gingerly lifted my head off my pillow and I fought through the feelings of dizzy and nausea and I made my way out of bed and somehow made it to my 8-5. I know I never should have gotten on the road, I was feeling like a disoriented drunk at this point, but the sense of duty takes over and you do what you gotta do, right? When the doctor's office opened for the day I called and was able to get in on Monday afternoon and so I went to see my doctor and she told me I had Vertigo and she tried to explain it a little bit, and then prescribed some awesome pills that magically made the dizzy go away for me and she also asked me to go take some therapy to help my inner ear issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made it all the way through Tuesday because I was taking those magic pills that absolutely slowed me down, I was off in la-la land all day on Tuesday and as soon as the dizzy came back I would pop another magic pill and keep on going with my day and night. On Wednesday morning I got up and went off to my therapy appointment, it was 45 minutes from my house and by the time I got there I was a mess, but I made it. <b>Bottom line, I made it all by myself and didn't cause any accidents on the way! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I entered a new world when I opened the therapist's office door. First of all...very nice ladies and so helpful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After signing all the proper paperwork and sitting there for a few moments the therapist, Amanda, came over, introduced herself and led me back to a table on the left side of the very large rehabilitation room. After we situated my glasses and handbag she started to question me and take down notes and then when we got to the part about my magic pills she looked disappointed that I had taken them the day before and she cautioned me that likely because I had taken those babies, that we were not going to find the problem today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Amanda persisted and she explained to me what was likely going on with me. She said that your inner ear has a flat part and three tubes attached to the flat part. The flat part has "rocks" in it and the tubes have a honey like substance running through them. The rocks are what helps us to remain balanced. In the case of Vertigo, one of those rocks break free and take a ride in one of the three tubes attached to the flat part of the inner ear. This is how I remember her telling it to me, and if there is a doctor or nurse reading this and in the know and I'm not spelling it out correctly, forgive me, and explain further please. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amanda told me there is only one way to know without doing X-rays if one has a rock loose and in the tube and for sure has Vertigo and that is by tilting ones head a certain way and watching what the eye ball does. The eyes and ears are connected to each other. She explained how I was going to lay on the pillows so my head was going to be tilted downward and my chin toward my "armpit" and then she told me what was going to happen next and next and so forth. She told me if there is a rock I will be dizzy but to keep my eyes open and push through the dizzy because it will subside. She also said that most folks have a loose rock in their right ear and so we were starting there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After no bells and whistles really went off during the right ear procedure, Amanda told me we probably wouldn't find it today because of having taken those magic pills the day before, but we were going to try the left ear just in case. As soon as my head was in position for the left ear procedure the dizzy overcame me, I was nauseous and Amanda was gleefully announcing, "Oh, <b>there</b> is the rock!" and her assistant was like, "Yeah, you can really see it!" I don't know what they saw, I felt my eyeball twitching like crazy and I pushed through the nausea and after going through all the different head tiling's and then finally sitting upright Amanda was pretty excited to know which side my rock was and which side she would need to work with. She told me that only about 15 percent of the folks she helps with will have a rock loose in their left ear, it is much more often that she finds them in the right ear. So, interestingly enough, I got to do both my ears, but now we know...so I'm not complaining. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was told that I could not work on the computer for 24 hours and that I was to remain upright and no bending or lifting until I went to bed and not to go to bed until 11 PM last night. After 11 PM I was supposed to continue on with my life as though nothing ever happened and if something turns up from now until my next session it will help her figure out what to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My eyes have been so strained the last six months or so and I felt like my eyesight was fading and I was not sure if I would ever really become a writer because I wasn't sure I would have the eyesight for it, and now today...after all that maneuvering of the rock in my left inner ear, my eyesight feels so much less strained and everything in my world is so much clearer! It has been amazing and so far the dizziness has been subsiding. I'm still feel a bit tired and disoriented, but it is a far cry from how I felt even just yesterday morning. I go back for a second session next Wednesday and hope we can clear this thing up completely. I'm hopeful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below you will see a diagram of an inner ear I found out there on the Internet. In one of those tube like things is where the "rock" had landed and just by maneuvering my head around we were able to get that rock to slide back into place, I guess. It seems a little bit like magic to think that could work and I had to think about the person who figured out how to do this! Non-invasive and almost painless except for the part where you get nauseous for awhile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I'm just blonde and you will probably still get a good one over me now and then and I will still live up to the blonde jokes that are out there, but one thing you can't say about me anymore is that I am a dizzy blonde! </span></div>
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In this book you will meet a young lad from the city, Lenny, and how he reluctantly came to spend a summer at his Amish grandfather's farm. There are twists and turns and a girl and horses, lots and lots of horses. Lenny has a lot to learn and he has a wonderful teacher, actually a few teachers it ends up and not always in the way one would think. By the end of Lenny's time on the farm he has come to learn a lot about himself and has resolved a few issues. There are many character lessons in Lenny's story and I think would be a good story to read to your children and then talk about some of the lesson's Lenny learned. </div>
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There is no doubt in my mind the author loves horses and knows a lot about them. He also understands the Amish and how they work a farm. It was nice to read a more "realistic" view of the Amish in a book of fiction. I find so often the Amish fiction books I've read are so far from realistic I can hardly find "Amish" in the book but for the word. Tom Nye hit the nail on the head with being authentic and realistic in his portrayal of an Amish working farm. </div>
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For me, it was a bit of a chore to work through the first few chapters just because there was so much about the horses, but my husband read the book as well and he told me that every Amish man would love to read this book and he is planning on sharing it with his brothers. Having said that I believe it is a book that folks who are interested in the Amish and farm life in general - especially horses will want to read. I am recommending this book to anyone who is interested in knowing more about the Amish, if you want the "feel" of Amish, you will want to invest in this book because it is as true to life as anything I've ever read.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The alarm didn't go off this morning. It's Saturday, so no need to be structured today. But my internal alarm went off at 6:20 AM. There never truly is "sleeping in" for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far today I've set six rib-eye steaks to marinate and cut up a watermelon and I made a delectable potato salad and now I'm set for our dinner guests tonight. I don't like steak. I know, <i>I know</i>, I'm not like most folks. It is just too much to chew. A smoked pork chop sounded much better to me, so that is what I'm having. There are hot dogs and hamburgers for the two little guys who are joining us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love our local butcher shop. I called them up and gave them my order; told them I would pick it up on my lunch hour. Because they were so efficient in getting my order ready I had enough time to make the trek home and put my purchases in the fridge before returning to my 8-5. We live in the country, I work in the country, and so round trip I traveled at least 20 miles or a few more to get that meat in the fridge and be back in my chair in the office within the hour. I even had time to make one of those hot dogs I purchased and eat it on my way back to my office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't want to be all depressing, but have you all heard in the news of the lady is going to be flogged and hung for her Christian belief? It sounds like she has two years to spend with her children and then she will be flogged and hung. When I hear such things it is hard for me to kind of "go on" with my daily life and feel at peace with what I'm doing. My life seems so superficial when I think about others in the world who are living such a hard, hard life, being persecuted for their faith and not allowed to live freely as I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure that is how God meant it to be, so we pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just pray, when you think about it, for this lady and others whose stories we don't know about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was looking through my camera this morning I was surprised with what I saw. I knew, of course, that I had taken pictures, but just didn't know how they had turned out. I hope you will enjoy my show and tell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so are they. Curious at what is going on, on the other side of the fence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My neighbor, Mr. Amish, was out in his field the other day so I grabbed my camera and from the shelter of our cottage on the hill I took pictures through the screen in the door, because I didn't want Mr. Amish to see me clicking away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But here he is breaking a horse. This all happened in about five minutes time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The yellow in this picture makes the whole thing so pretty, but then to really look at the picture and see the horses and the cows way in the back and, of course, the farm buildings, the silo, it all just screams, Amish Country, USA! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was in the heat of the day and these very smart cows found reprieve from the the sun under this grove of trees. How pretty are they? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was up, high on a hill. I love the stone chimney, and I have a feeling there is more to this little cabin on the side I couldn't see, what do you think? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple months back I had written a post about an Amish man and his toys. <a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/04/an-amish-man-and-his-toys.html" target="_blank">You can read about him here. </a> Well, Dan and his wife Anna invited us over for dinner this past Thursday night and I took my camera along because I knew that we were in for a real treat. Dan and Anna have created this little haven beside their home and they share it with all kinds of people. They love to cook and grill and bake and they also enjoy entertaining. I feel so blessed to have been invited over to partake of this cozy little abode they have created. Fancy vacations are not on their radar, they would rather sit around a good campfire with their family and friends then to see the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pizza ready for the oven. They baked three pizzas, but there was no way we could eat all of them. They were so delicious! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pizza in the oven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doesn't that look beautiful and delicious? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was! And we sat right beside the oven to eat and it was a gorgeous night too. What a treat! There was also grilled chicken and cole slaw and muskmelon and pecan pie and ice cream and they baked an apple crisp in the pizza oven, as well. The food flowed like there was no tomorrow and every morsel was tasty and perfection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the night moved in on us, there was less light, but the campfire was nice and bright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a most pleasant night and one that inspired me and blessed me. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one who calls me<i> mommi.</i></span></b></div>
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Last week I started my week off on the wrong foot, I was dizzy and when you are dizzy, it is "trump" in your life and no responsibility one may have ever dominates the dizzy. I tried to lift my head off the pillow and move on, but the dizzy had taken over and that was IT. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My ears and I have a long history of pain and suffering. First of all I had my one eardrum burst twice and now have a certain level of hearing loss in that ear. And then one day I started to have even more severe issues and I won't go into all the ugly symptoms but there didn't seem to be a thing any doctor could do to make it better or even gain a diagnosis, and then after 20 some odd years of dealing with it and even seeing a "holistic" person who prescribed "light treatments" and gave me potions and all that jazz I finally ended up knocking on yet another ear, nose and throat specialist's door and in the beginning he gave me some grim news, he said I would need surgery and it was going to be bad, but then he actually looked in my ears more deeply and found a fungus growing in there. Yes, you read correctly, a fungus. No surgery after all, Thank God! But, I had a whole year of treatment with antibiotics and not only by mouth but I would return to his office periodically to get antibiotics intravenously and after months of treatment many of the symptoms subsided. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early 1990's my husband and I traveled to NYC via Amtrak and at Philadelphia, Pa they attached the locomotive to the opposite end of our car and so we ended up "backing" into NYC and during our ride into NYC I was so dizzy and I've never been totally okay since then, there is always this element of vertigo I have to be careful of and especially when my ears are a bit more tender. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was a very "wordy" way to say that I've been totally uninspired to write the last week or so. My brain felt a bit foggy as I started to overcome the dizzy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been thinking a lot and busy. Mr. Wonderful and I have so many projects we are working on. We have the new patio to a point that we can actually sit on the swing and enjoy it, but there are a few more things to purchase for the patio, namely a table and chairs and more plants and some pillows for the swing. A whole laundry list as they say and I doubt they will all happen this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A project I have going on is painting a huge stack of picture frames. Probably about 30 or so picture frames, all sizes. I have been collecting them from various places, paying less than a dollar for them and now I am spraying coats of black semi gloss paint on them to make them all look uniform and I will be framing some of my favorite pictures I've been taking, plus family pictures that need to be displayed. It is a fun project at the moment, but I have to figure out when is a good time to get Mr. Wonderful involved because I am not handy with a tape measure and a hammer. You all get the "picture?" No pun intended! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How is that folks who call themselves "Christian" are so mean-spirited and awful to those around them? Some days this thought nearly consumes me and I wish I didn't always see or hear the things that are out there. It just bothers me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The luxury of having Electricity and being able to turn on the air conditioner on a whim is still such a blessing to me. I just never take it for granted that this is a luxury. When I was Amish I had to suffer through each hot summer day and night with no reprieve, and now, even still today, after having left that lifestyle behind me some nineteen years ago, having the ability to turn on the air conditioner and be able to sleep well at night is not lost to me. At all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been making some really neat friends online because of my blog and social media and I have to say, my heart feels so much warmth and love from all of you. I love my "old" friends, and I am surely loving my new friends as well. I was telling Mr. Wonderful the other night that I am so surprised in a way of how "normal" my readers are and how many of you are becoming my friends, we chat behind the scenes, emailing each other, sometimes getting a phone call in or texting each other and it has so blessed me...way beyond measure! My readers/friends are just the best, each of you have blessed me so much and I just wanted to take a moment to thank each of you for being here and for coming back for more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young man who helps me with my website and social media issues has been looking into a few things for me. I'm not quite happy with the website, it seems a bit tedious to find things and so we are looking at updating the site so things will be easier to find. I want it simple and to have a similar feel to what it is today, but just a bit more user-friendly. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-30203280303320731212014-05-26T06:21:00.002-07:002014-05-26T06:31:53.179-07:00Freedom and Sacrifice - Some Gave All<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Growing up Amish and coming from a long line of conscientious objectors I don't think that I fully realize the sacrifice it has taken over the years to keep our freedoms intact, but as I age and I rub shoulders with those who have served or who have children serving; I have come to understand more deeply the sacrifice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have many words today, except to say a hearty <i>Thank you</i> to all the veterans and all those still serving today. You are the pride of our country, our backbone and why I get to come from a long line of conscientious objectors. The protection and freedoms you have provided and are still providing today for our country are immeasurable. </span></div>
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The very first time I ever entered this business was as little Amish girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old, and it was located down the road a bit and around the corner. I remember smelling leather as my parents, my brother and I would enter the store, the mission - a pair of shoes for my brother or I - a pair of tennis shoes for the beginning of a new school year or a pair of "Sunday shoes" for when our feet outgrew the pair we had. We had to be careful with those new "Sunday shoes" and not scuff them up too much because they had to "last." I always loved shoes and shopping for shoes, but as a young Amish girl I felt like there was never enough of a selection for me to choose from and ALWAYS ended up leaving the store with a pair of what I always called "grandma shoes" because my mom, her mom, my other grandmother, aunts, and all the church ladies wore the same shoe and I was always mortified that I had to wear the same kind of shoe the old ladies wore. </div>
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For this reason I believe is why, today, I like to have a bunch of shoes, something for each outfit, there is nothing like a good selection to mix and match with when I'm pulling an outfit together and shoes oftentimes make the outfit happen. My husband always says to me, "are you sure you wear all those shoes" and/or "if you bring another pair home, you have to pitch five of the pair of shoes that you have." </div>
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I thought about this place a couple months ago and wondered what it looked like on the inside so I inquired on Facebook if it were possible for me to stop over and bring my camera. I was thinking one of the son's who are no longer Amish might own the harness and shoe repair shop since they have a Facebook page, but I would soon learn that the son, Larry Weaver, who now owns the harness and shoe repair shop IS still Amish and his non-Amish nephew has hooked him up with a Facebook page. Isn't that kind of cool?</div>
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As I stepped out of my car at Mt. Eaton Harness and Shoe Repair a couple Saturday's ago I noticed a few things, the tree in the parking lot, the dog, Max, and a hitching post all nesting up close to a nicely manicured lawn owned by Larry's parents. </div>
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I took a few pictures of the out of doors, and Max, of course, and then I walked up the ramp, opened the door and entered the shop and the first thing I did was stand there and breath in the leather smell. If I had closed my eyes I would thought I had returned to the old shop where my brother and I were outfitted with our next pair of shoes, up the road and around the corner. But I didn't close my eyes and I wasn't transported into the past, but it sure smelled like it, leathery, woodsy, new shoes, all the smells in my memory were still there. </div>
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Upon entering the shop and allowing my nose to have its way with the smells I saw that Larry and his father were both busy, Larry with customers, his father was back in the corner busy repairing shoes. Since I knew that they knew I was stopping by I started taking pictures until Larry was free to chat with me. It ended up that he was not able to chat because it was going on toward the end of store hours and he and his wife had dinner plans and he HAD to mow the lawn before he had to be ready for dinner. Larry invited me to take all the pictures I wanted and to come back the following Saturday for a visit. </div>
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I did both. I took pictures that day and the following Saturday afternoon I showed up to chat with him a bit about his business. Larry told me his father, Eli Weaver, previously owned the business, purchasing it from another Amish man in the community 41 years ago, about the same year Larry was born. His father moved the business two years later from the shop that I used to go shoe shopping with my parents to where it now resides. Larry took over the business 19 years ago and his father works for him now. </div>
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Larry and his wife have five children, ranging in ages of 17 all the way to 5 years old. The first four children, all girls...the last one...a boy. Larry cracked a big smile when he mentioned his son, adding that his son is spoiled very much. Larry's oldest daughter works outside the home full time, the next two help him in the shop, cleaning and helping with customer service on those days the store has sales. </div>
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Speaking of sales, Larry mentioned that during the Mt. Eaton Days, June 13 and 14th they will be having 10% off the entire store. This would be the time to stop by and purchase your steel toed work boots, or a nice pair of cowboy boots. Along with the sale inside, they are also have a garage sale and he will have close-out shoes at the garage sale.</div>
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In August, 5-9 they will be having their anniversary sale, and I am thinking he told me that they would be having 10% off store wide again on these dates. Along with the anniversary sale in the store they are also having barbecue chicken dinners on the outside; one can come and purchase dinners and the proceeds go to The Pier, a local venue and private school.</div>
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The bulk of Larry's business is shoe sales. He sells all kinds of products, but shoes are the main thing. He has a nice display of shoes and he helps each of his customers fitting the shoes, giving prompts on how they should fit. I heard him tell one customer who was trying on cowboy boots that when she walks there should be about a half an inch between her heel and the back of the boot. He is extremely knowledgeable on shoes and what one needs to get the job done. Mostly, what he sells are work shoe type of shoes. You won't find fancy shoes here, practical shoes for practical situations. He also sells tennis shoes and I saw Crocs there as well as, Sunday shoes for the Amish. </div>
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The other side of Larry's business is the repair part. His father repairs boots and shoes. I heard Larry tell someone that if the sole of his shoe wears out, all he has to do is bring the shoes back and they will take the old sole off and put a brand new sole on the shoes for a lot less price. I noticed Larry isn't all about the dollar, but he is selling a way of life for those who have hard jobs and need tough shoes. He cares about his customers and for that reason is why I'm sure he has repeat customers. He really provides customer service and seems to be less sales driven. Larry repairs harnesses and saddles in his spare time. When I was there the second day he was repairing a customer's reins for his horses, they were all tore up and Larry patched them up all nice and neat and his Amish customer had a great big grin on his face when he saw the patch that Larry did for him. </div>
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In between chatting about his business and taking care of customers I got to talk with one or two of the customers. This one Amish man asked me if I was a sales lady. I told him no, that I was a writer and I was doing an article on Larry's shop. The fellow then asked me who I was because I was actually speaking in Pennsylvania Dutch and when you speak the language folks want to know who you are and where you come from. As this fellow and I chatted we ended up being like second cousins. His grandfather was my grandmother's brother. Neat, huh? You just never know when you will run into relatives in these parts. </div>
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Max, what a doll! If you love dogs you will want to stop by and give this fellow a petting. He will brighten your day. </div>
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As you come inside you are greeted with this rack of boots and to the right of the front door are many more displays of shoes and boots. </div>
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A nice spot in the middle of the room for Larry to fit his customers with their new shoes or boots and make sure they are leaving with the perfect fit. </div>
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Tough. Everything that is sold in this place seems to ooze tough, durable, long lasting, and good investment.</div>
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That is my black tablet sitting on the edge of the counter with my keys laying on top. I like that I got them in there by accident. </div>
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Leather Dye. I used a lot of this product as a little Amish girl growing up dying the family Sunday shoes before church and then after I was married making sure my husband's shoes were nice and shiny each church Sunday. </div>
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Stacks of hats sold primarily to Amish men and boys. </div>
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Larry was mowing the yard behind the shop. </div>
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Max was out back smelling the <strike>roses</strike> dandelions while Larry was mowing.</div>
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If you are looking for liniment or some other potion for your horse, Larry probably has it stocked on his shelves somewhere. </div>
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Meet Ike. He is a permanent fixture in the store. </div>
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He was getting his exercise. </div>
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A little patron found Ike, I like that his house is low to the floor so the little ones can stand there with their arms crossed as this little gal is doing and relax while she is watching Ike.</div>
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This stuff is sold at the beauty supply store where I purchase my beauty products. Isn't that amazing? Me and the horse next door could shop at the same store for our beauty particulars!</div>
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Aren't these cute? A lot of little Amish girls wear a pair of these shoes for Sunday. </div>
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Not a graveyard for leather products, these items are on Larry and Eli's "to do list."</div>
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I loved this piece of furniture. Signs of many, many years of wear and tear. </div>
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Signs that they have fun in this shop. Up on the top I noticed "Gordy" written out and I asked Larry about it. He said it was there because of an English neighbor boy they grew up with. My husband and I know the brother to the "Gordy" on the wall and interestingly enough we call our friend "Gordy" as well. Was interesting for me to see it up on their wall. </div>
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These saw horses are very tall, and very smooth from the wear and tear over the years. Really beautiful in real life. </div>
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The next boot to be repaired. </div>
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Lined up ready to be repaired. </div>
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Max came by to send me off. He looks so happy.<br />
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If you would like to visit Larry and take a gander at what he sells, you can plug his address in your GPS and head that way.<br />
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Mt Eaton Harness and Shoe Repair<br />
10265 Winesburg Rd<br />
Dundee, OH 44624<br />
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I checked their Facebook page tonight to link to it and alas! It is no longer there. I'm not sure what happened, but if I find they have it up again, I will link to it for everybody. Last time I had checked their page had more than 500 "likes" so they are doing something right on there.<br />
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If you do stop in to see Larry, please tell him that you read this. He seemed really happy that I was going to blog about his business. He is a very friendly fellow and if you are in the market for a good work boot or shoe, he is the man to help you out.<br />
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If you liked this article and would like to be prompted when I do more of them, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LookingInMyRearviewMirror" target="_blank">I invite you to go to my Facebook page and "like" it so we can stay connected.</a> </div>
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My Saturday was busy. It felt like there wasn't much room for breathing, but I did stop and breath for a moment or two along the way. I took a bunch of pictures to document the day. </div>
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Rhubarb. First thing Saturday morning I visited my rhubarb plant and harvested a few stalks so I could make this recipe for a dessert for lunch. I've been using this <a href="http://southernfood.about.com/od/rhubarbrecipes/r/bl60609a.htm" target="_blank">Rhubarb Crisp recipe</a> for several years now and Mr. Wonderful always asks for it. I like it with ice cream, he and his mom like it with milk. </div>
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She had to smell the rhubarb. </div>
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Ace got bored with me and trotted off to the barn in search of food. I love the cat's path to the barn...she is walking in it. All three cats use that path when they are leaving the barn. </div>
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Every time I see one of them using the path I kind of marvel that it never fails, the always do so. It is interesting how God has made animals...they are so predictable when you have studied their habits for awhile. </div>
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Alley Cat...yep, couldn't go without adding one of him. He looks a bit stalker-ish in this picture. </div>
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The finished product...Rhubarb Crisp all done and ready to be packed up to go to my mother in law's house. </div>
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Pork and Beans dish. I had fried up a pound of bacon that I had cut up in small pieces. </div>
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And then Bushes' original pork and beans...and then added some Worcestershire sauce and a few splashes of hot sauce and the fried bacon and presto! Wonderful pork and beans to take along to dinner. </div>
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The third thing I made was porcupine meatballs and rice. It was our day to provide food and to stay with my mother in law. Mr. Wonderful went down to her house earlier in the morning and I stayed home and cooked and did laundry. When it was lunch time I packed up my car and headed to her house for lunch and a visit. </div>
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A different shot of her table. I had to be careful not to get her in the picture, that is why the picture is kind of at an odd angle because she was at the other end. That blue scarf thing is an old table cloth that she uses on her table for nice, but when someone comes and we eat, we have to push it back so that we don't get crumbs on it. She told me yesterday that they received that tablecloth as a wedding gift. That would have been at least 60 years ago, I'm not sure of the exact number of years, but she is in her late 80's so it was a long time ago. </div>
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My mother in law still lives on the home farm in the small house. On the farm, by the big farm house is this flower bed. I just had to get a picture of it. </div>
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Near my mother in law's house was an Amish wedding. You can see many buggies lined up. </div>
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The ceremony was in this big white tent. </div>
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Tease alert.....I found this little fellow at that place of business. You will meet "Ike" in my next post. Can you guess where I was? </div>
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On my way home from the interview I saw this Amish lady rolling down the highway in her garden tractor and wagon. </div>
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Our family was invited to Betsy and Allen's house for a cookout last night. Betsy was on Breaking Amish LA last year, and we have become friendly over the last six months or so. It was raining off and on and cold, so the cookout happened, but we ate indoors. The fellows are watching Allen cook the burgers...very good burgers! I had made the pork and beans and our daughter brought a salad and our daughter in law brought a yummy dessert and Betsy and Allen provided the burgers and the rest of the food. It was a delicious meal for sure! </div>
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Here is Betsy and Allen's back yard, all prettied up for the summer. Nice plants and so woodsy back there.</div>
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A shot out there living room window. Can you imagine that in the wintertime? I bet it it simply gorgeous when the snow is falling. </div>
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Our son and his wife. I love how they are looking at each other in this picture. </div>
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Our daughter and her husband. So pretty. </div>
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Mr. Wonderful's allergies were getting the best of him last night for some reason. </div>
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Beautiful couple, Betsy and Allen and their dog Sparky. Snoopy was running around there somewhere. Cute dogs. (Thank you Betsy and Allen for having our family over for a fun evening!)</div>
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Little Guy was there too. He loved Betsy's little dogs! Here he is trying to eat a hot dog bun and not let grandma take his picture. He is so ornery! </div>
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We had a lovely day, all the way from visiting with my mother in law to the interview and later on our cookout with Betsy and Allen. It was a good day, a full day, but full of fellowship and good food. </div>
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<a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/05/a-full-saturday.html" target="_blank">a full saturday</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-49237170329872894222014-05-18T11:41:00.002-07:002014-05-18T11:41:48.589-07:00what kind of conscience do you have? <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I don't "say it" a lot in my blog because it is so personal to me and I feel like if I try to "preach it" continually I might cheapen the gospel as I know it. But there are those times when I've been so inspired and then I will write what is on my heart and let the world out there read my thoughts on faith and my walk in it. Otherwise, I try to convey my love for God through the pictures I take and the experiences I have, they are all connected for me, but for the reader they may not always get it as it feels inside of my heart and mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is one of those days that I wish to write from my heart what I have experienced in church. What an amazing time I had, and for me it never only is about how I feel, but it is also those times of conviction, when God's word has been presented to me in a way that opens my eyes. Those thoughts that make me pause and think and contemplate and search my innermost parts and realize where I have failed and then have a time of repentance and moving forward yet again in my walk with the One I serve daily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our church is going through the book of Acts at the moment and today's sermon notes read: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's that still small voice inside my head that tells me what is right and wrong. Yes? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, but so much more when you fully dissect it. As I was reading over each point and as our pastor was preaching; a few things became more clear to me about my own life and I found where I have instances in which I need to think things through and change my thinking a little bit and my actions or in-actions as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so glad the sermon notes were so detailed this morning and I'm going to share a few of them here. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Function of Conscience</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May cause guilt and shame when we sin</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May warn us when we contemplate wrongdoing</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May approve us when we do what we believe to be right</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think these three points explain the conscience so much better than to simply say "my conscience is a still small voice inside my head that tells me what is right and wrong." These points help us think it through. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your Conscience can be Many Things</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can have a weak conscience</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can have a defiled conscience</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can have an evil conscience</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can have a seared conscience</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can have a pure conscience</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is where I had to start looking at things a bit differently. I had never thought of it like this before. Maybe my conscience is weak because when I watch a television show that portrays sin as funny and I laugh...I'm going against what God would have me do. Or a friend tells me something and I agree verbally, but disagree in my heart just because I don't want to offend them. Maybe, just maybe I have a weak conscience and I need to figure out how to have a pure conscience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In great detail our pastor gave us a definition of having a seared conscience...not in his words, but the gist of what he said, it is when you are involving yourself in something that goes against scripture and you "justify" your actions. That is big stuff. You don't have to look too far, too deep or too wide to see it happening all around us, folks justifying their sinful ways. Our pastor gave us the word picture of branding a calf and how once that skin is branded the nerve endings are dead and the calf no longer has feelings in that area. The same can be said for our hearts, once our conscience has been seared with sin being justified - there are no more feelings of wrongdoing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is a bit scary for me because I wonder if there is anything in my life that I've justified to the point of almost no return? </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn and live the commands of God</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basically, we have to keep on keeping on, doing what we know we should do to remain strong and not have a weak, defiled, seared or evil conscience. Our goal should be to have.....a pure conscience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am probably overly cautious when it comes to all the happening preachers and teachers out there, but this is a good example of why, because I do not want to fall under false doctrine and so many big mainstream preachers and teachers can be a little bit shady and we have to protect ourselves from such things. I would rather not be the most knowledgeable in the room and use the Bible for my main source of spiritual inspiration than to be misled by someone who honestly doesn't have all the pieces to the puzzle, or has intentions that are not good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main thought I had through this whole sermon today was that when we left the Amish we were told by former Amish folks themselves that we need to forget everything we have been taught and relearn how we think of God. I still believe we needed to do that from the bottom of my heart, but I wonder, is there anything that I'm missing, not from the Amish, but more from an attitude of "I am free from being told what to do and so now I get to do what I wanna do." I know I've had a change of heart a long time ago from that kind of mentality, I have come to learn that there is great responsibility in having that kind of spiritual freedom, all of a sudden I have to be responsible to know why I do the things I do and I have to talk to God and learn from his word and form conviction with his word in my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This sermon made me think about things and want to explore more deeply how I allow my conscience to work. Do I do "willful sin"? You know, watching something on television that is laughing at sin and I laugh with it? Or listening to music with lyrics that are nasty...in fact...very recently...I had looked up a particular song on YouTube...I wanted to see what the video would look like and maybe have more insight on the meaning of the song and right there in the middle of the song, there was an occultic symbol and I was taken aback by it, and YET...when I page through the radio and that song comes on, more than not I linger, because the music is so catchy. I'm totally convinced that I've been willfully sinning by giving that song any second of a listen and so I had to repent this afternoon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I travel through this world I've been inspired to be more mindful of my conscience, to listen to it, and to give it the proper training and protection so that I don't have to live with a seared, defiled, evil or weak conscience. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-48525492840102140282014-05-17T18:36:00.003-07:002014-05-18T12:18:55.915-07:00<a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/05/my-week-in-review.html" target="_blank">My week in Review </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I left my 9-5 this afternoon I knew I had a bit of free time as my plans had kind of fallen through for this evening. I had planned on going to watch our friend's son play a game of softball. He belongs to Little League and I wanted to go support him, but because of the heavy rains after the tornado scare the game was cancelled. Instead of coming straight home, I went home via "the long way" and was able to get a few photographs of my Amish Country that I love so very much. At one crossroad I wondered which way to go and felt prompted to make a right and oh mah goodness! I was totally blessed with some of the things I found to photograph. I will try and share some of my adventures after I'm finished writing. I don't edit my pictures, you get them as I shoot them, but it still takes a bit of time to go through them and decide which ones are post-worthy and which ones are just for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I've been a bit quiet on here. I have many irons in the fire at all times, but one thing that remains important to me is to fellowship with other ladies, old friends and new ones too. Last night I met with a new friend and I had no idea how long our dinner would go, but we ended up having a two and half hour conversation. We laughed, we shared and got serious and then we laughed some more. The week before was the same way, I met with a new friend who has been an inspiration for me via the blog world for at least a year and then I got to meet her and next thing we knew we had scheduled a dinner to get together and visit and talk all things blog and beyond. Next week I have plans to meet for dinner with an "old" friend...not in age, but we've been friends for a good long time now...so that is why she is an old friend. I don't care, new or old friends, if they are true friends, they are priceless and can only enhance ones life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I didn't cook a lot, we had some leftovers around here and then we went out to eat once or twice and ended up not needing me to cook. I missed not cooking, so tonight, after my excursion via "the long way home," I came home and baked a pork roast, made sweet potato fries to go with the pork and then I also roasted a lot of garlic and made a roasted garlic spread to add to sandwiches or to put on top of meat or whatever we wish. I am totally addicted to roasted garlic. It is so delicious and enhances food to the nth degree! If you've not tried it, then you should. You will not be let down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After cooking and cleaning up the kitchen and then sitting down and eating the delicious homemade food I felt....complete. I love to cook and when I don't spend some time in the kitchen creating something I start to feel incomplete. At home I'm almost never dismayed at the food, but so often when we go out to eat I'm totally underwhelmed at the flavors that get thrown on a plate with an $11 price tag or more attached to the dish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point...I'm rambling, so I am going to go upload a few pictures for you and have a bit of a show and tell and then I have to get to bed. Morning always comes so quickly. Can anyone relate???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some sheep and lambs grazing. I couldn't stop looking at all the green around them. They are knee deep in grass. The cluster of trees in the background...priceless! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one noticed me as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't the prettiest picture in the bunch, however, I noticed the colors, the deep blue sky against the green grass and the two very dark horses, and fence. Lots of color going on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lone horse out grazing. He looked up when he heard me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cows in one pasture, sheep in the other. Beautiful green carpet they are grazing on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The herd of cattle by themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sheep...be still my heart. How precious this is to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love sheep. We used to raise lambs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One lone tree standing tall and regal in the midst of a field, providing not only shelter for the animals and reprieve from the hot summer sun, but also beauty to the passerby. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love the tree and love the colors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A herd of cattle grazing deep in this pasture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Rooster didn't want to pose, he went running, but I snapped his picture before he got away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is Mr. Rooster's wife along with another couple. They just stared at me. Not quite as skittish as Mr. Rooster was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is nothing like a long muddy lane with a cozy farm tucked in at the end of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I simply love this picture. The creek winding lazily through this pasture makes the whole picture wonderful for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another shot of the muddy lane. I like the sky and the very green pasture beside it with cows grazing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amish schoolhouse tucked neatly back there by the woods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS...there were more tornado sirens and storms tonight as I was cooking. I forgot to put that in all my rambling. Must be it wasn't too dramatic for me, or I would have made mention of it. Now I will say good night everybody! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text Gen-1-29" id="en-NIV-29" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.</span><span class="text Gen-1-30" id="en-NIV-30" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"> </span>And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life<span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></span> in it—I give every green plant for food.<span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)"></span>” And it was so. Genesis 1: 29,30</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week when I was out and about I found a few things that I wanted to capture. In the next picture I stepped outside my car in this wooded area and I walked up and down the road just marveling at the rustic splendor. One mini van and one dump truck found me, otherwise it was just me and nature for that moment. God speaks to me of his love for me through his nature. After a long, hard winter I am finding joy in the calm and beauty of Spring with Summer pounding down the pavement fast on Spring's heels. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find myself reluctant to let this season end. I want the newness of life to remain for awhile, it feels like if I give in to Summer; Fall and the dreaded Winter will soon be back and I'm just not ready for another snow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How peaceful this was in the middle of a crazy day! If it hadn't been so muddy I would have trekked inside the woods and would have looked for some mushrooms. It was too muddy and I had other things to get back to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the things that always catch my eye is a tree's root system. Here is a great one sitting beside a small creek. it reminded me of another root system that I really enjoyed looking at last winter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: "Hey, nice Beagle, how are ya today?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then Beagle says, "You better scram, or else!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beagle: "Or else I'm gonna tell the whole wide world you are here. Arrrwoowoo Arrrwoowoo!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And last but not least, "Beagle" reminded me of this fellow so I searched my camera for him so I could add him to this discussion. This winter when we were out and about one Sunday we came upon this scene. In the heart of Amish Country there resides a water hook up. I don't think I've ever seen one like this out on a country road, so that was kind of cool, but then to find a <b>dawg </b>near it...well, all the fire hydrant/dog jokes ever told came to mind. Mr. Wonderful and I had to laugh as I crawled out of the car to snap a few pictures. It would only have been more perfect if dawg would have peed on the hydrant so I could gotten that picture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week has been a week of me learning and exploring social media. Instagram, Google Plus, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook. My head is spinning. They are all wonderful vehicles to get your message out and to interact with folks, but my goodness gravy, I am completely overwhelmed right now. When I get overwhelmed I let things sit for a spell and come back to them. I'm doing just that today. I want to clean the garage and my car and then I'm going to go on another adventure. Not quite the same as my adventure last week, <a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/05/klines-environmental-services-day-spent.html" target="_blank">if you missed it you can find it here</a>. It was one of the best days in my recent history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so glad my favorite cooking show has a few new episodes; one of which is supposed to air today. I love Ree....she is so genuine. When I grow up I want to be like her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment I am kind of hooked on this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cf-zysDfSk" target="_blank">song</a>. I can apply the words to various parts of my life and just kind of know what the girl in the song is about. When I was younger this song could have been written about me, I think. Enjoy ya'all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the cherry on top of my sundae this week was someone who is from my past private messaged me to let me know they had found me. After a bit of conversation this person then told me they remembered me as a child looking sad and depressed and that as they looked at my profile picture today they found that my eyes now looked like I was at peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The eyes are the windows to the soul, and I am so happy this person was able to see that peace in my eyes because it is what I feel for sure, for sure. Praise God! </span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-55935276569794794982014-05-09T19:51:00.003-07:002014-05-09T20:08:46.399-07:00Dear Diary - May 9, 2014 - Fiction<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Diary, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't want to think today. With everything that I learned this week, I needed a break.The girls had been begging me to do a picnic in the woods when it gets nice. They have been going to the bookmobile now that school is over with for the year and the nice librarian, Ellen, who comes along with the bookmobile has introduced my girls to this series with a little girl who goes on all kinds of adventures. Trudy is her name and Ellen thought the girls might be interested in reading of her adventures. Well, Ellen was correct and Trudy has opened up the girl's eyes to so many things. One adventure Trudy had was when she went on a picnic in the woods and the animals started to talk to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna reads the Trudy stories to her two sisters in the evenings at bedtime and the three of them daydream of having similar adventures as Trudy does. So after the breakfast dishes were finished this morning I told the girls that since their dad and Simon were going to be helping Mose Miller with some of his farm work today we would go on a picnic if we got all of our cleaning and the laundry done before lunch time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the girls saw their list there was more squealing and jumping around and asking questions, like, "you mean ANY quilt, mom?" I told them they could choose any quilt because I knew that my Oxy Clean could get out any grass stain we might get on the quilt and I wanted this to be a special day for my girls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I busied myself in the kitchen. Since I had been planning this picnic last night already I had made some finger jello in reds, oranges and purples, the girl's favorite jellos, and now I quickly cut them in flower shapes with cookie cutters and placed them in a small Tupperware container. Fresh cookies had been baked yesterday afternoon, this time I had made Whoopie Pies and now dessert was spoken for. The main course was going to be chicken salad sandwiches. I am using my neighbor, Karen's chicken salad recipe, it calls for halved grapes and walnuts and the sandwiches are so delicate and delicious. I had baked bread on Wednesday and so I cut a loaf into very thin slices and quickly assembled my sandwiches. Along with the decadent chicken sandwiches I had vegetables and French Onion dip and potato chips. I placed everything in Tupperware containers and gently placed each container into the ice chest. Already packed in the ice chest were cans of Dad's Root Bear and Orange Crush to drink at the picnic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were finished with our chores at just the same time and so we got out our Radio Flyer wagon and packed the ice chest and all the goodies the girls had on their list on to the wagon and we headed down the past the barn and trekked back to the woods until we got to our creek. There is a beautiful spot back there that John always says he hopes to make into a camp site for our family one day. He would like to add a fire pit and some permanent seating and clean it up just a bit more. I hope he does because being back there makes one believe that maybe animals can talk just like in Trudy's adventures in my girls' book they have been reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we arrived at our little wooded nook beside the babbling brook I asked the girls to spread out the quilt. I was pleased to see they had picked out the pretty lavender and green one that my grandmother had pieced together. It was made with love for such a time as this. I believe if my grandmother were alive she would approve of us using it today for our picnic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the quilt was spread on the ground we all set about to set the table. Arie and Amy arranged the plates and napkins, Anna and I set out the food in the middle of the quilt and poured out the root bear and orange crush. On the way to our picnic area we had found dainty little lavender flowers and a few bright yellow dandelions and so we picked all the flowers we could hold and Anna quickly arranged those flowers into the four vases we had brought from home, running them down to the creek and filling them with water before placing a small vase at each place setting on the quilt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we were finished setting everything up the four of us stood there and looked at our beautiful picnic but then our hunger overtook us and we quickly sat down Indian style and dug into our scrumptious meal. The girls laughed and reminisced about how in Trudy's picnic adventure the animals had come out and talked to her. Just then we all saw a squirrel scampering down a nearby tree and the little girls giggled harder than ever because Trudy had talked to a squirrel in her adventure. They wondered if the squirrel might stop to talk with us and just thinking about it made Arie and Amy giggle until they were both rolling around in the grass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We lingered over our nice little picnic lunch. I sat there and let them talk. Usually at the dinner table John and I are so often busy discussing the incidents of the day that we tend to push the children aside and so today I let them talk and talk they did. After we were finished with our picnic luncheon I reached into my bag and pulled out the book of Trudy's Adventures. I had found it at Kohl's the last time I went shopping on our neighborhood grocery day. It had all ten Trudy stories compiled into one thick hardcover book. When I pulled out the heavy book and the girls realized what it was they all started to squeal and get excited because now they had Trudy all to themselves to read whenever they had the urge to. I'm so glad to have a trusty librarian such as Ellen to guide my children toward good reading material. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girls plopped on their bellies, Anna in the middle, Arie and Amy on either side of her and they began to read their new book. I quietly cleaned up the dishes and packed the leftovers into the ice chest and then I settled back on the quilt, flat on my back, hands under my head, my covering tipped up so not to wrinkle it and I closed my eyes and I rested and tried not to think. As I drifted off to sleep I started to dream about a man who was looking for his daughter. It was a strange dream and when I woke up I wasn't sure what to make of it. I had never seen the man in my dream before and I don't have a name for him, all I know is he was walking all day, every day, looking for his daughter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt unsettled after waking up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I woke up I noticed the girls were not reading their book any longer and I heard splashing and more giggling and so I went to check and sure enough, there they were in the creek laughing and splashing in the water. They were soaked from head to toe, but I knew as warm as the day was today they would be dry by the time we walked back to the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called to the girls and after some reluctance they finally came and we packed everything back up and went back to the house to finish our day. The girls kept telling me how fun this had been and wondered if we can do it more often. I wanted to say yes to them but I also know how hard it is to keep such a promise when we are so busy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diary, it has been a good day today. John and Simon brought back a good report of all that had gone on at Mose Miller's farm, the girls and I had a good time cleaning and doing the household chores and then spending the afternoon on a relaxing picnic. I didn't think much about the letter sister Ina shared with me earlier this week. I'm still so confused and not sure what we should do with what we know. I won't stress out about it tonight though. Tomorrow holds a new day and maybe an answer to what should be done, or not done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ellie</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-74116725596681364532014-05-08T19:49:00.002-07:002014-05-09T05:44:41.145-07:00Dear Diary - May 8, 2014 - Fiction<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Diary, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a warm 76 degrees today at the warmest. In the house the temperature read 80 degrees. It was so warm that we opened all the windows and let the curtains flow in the breeze. It feels good to have the feeling of summer in the air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last few days, when we could we've been planting the garden, the girls have been helping me. Anna always helpful, Arie likes to imitate Anna and she is starting to pick things up quickly. And then there is little 3 year old Amy who is quickly becoming like her two sweet sisters. I can say that to you dear diary because this is just between you and I, but I could never admit to those around me that I think my children are sweet and lovely. That would be showing too much pride. Sometimes dear diary, I'm not sure I was supposed to be Amish. I don't always feel like I'm supposed to on the inside. I understand what Karen, my Mennonite neighbor, says when she tells me, "my children are my pride and joy, if I could have 20 of them I would." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diary, who am I kidding? I'm rambling about my girls when in fact I am blue and upset tonight. I'm not sure how to say this, but I received the most disturbing news this week and since then I've been trying to figure out how I feel about things and what to do about them. On Tuesday sister Ina stopped by and picked me up to go spend the day with sister Ruth and while we were in the buggy making our trek back home from Ruth's house Ina reached into her dress pocket and pulled out an envelope. She told me that last year after our mom had passed away and we were getting ready for children's sale that she was cleaning out mom's bureau drawers and under the paper lining of the top drawer she found this envelope. She had paused for a second and then opened it and could hardly believe the content of the letter. She was so stunned and horrified that she quickly placed the letter back in the envelope and placed it it in her dress pocket before any of us other children would see. She decided she wanted to take it home and discuss it with Steven first and see what he thought she should do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her husband didn't know what she should do and told her to hide the letter in their safe until they could figure out what to do. For the last year that envelope has been burning a hole in Ina's heart and has caused her many sleepless nights because she didn't know what to do. Tuesday morning she figure it was "now or never" and she brought it along to Ruth's house with the intentions of telling all of us sisters together or to see what my reaction was before she decides what to do with it. She decided to go with the latter option and on Tuesday afternoon on our ride home she pressed that envelope into my hands and said, "I want you to read this and then we will discuss what you have read." She looked relieved and pale all at the same time. I was honestly very apprehensive when I saw how pale and shaken she looked, but as she handed the envelope over to me there seemed to be a burden lifted in her heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diary, the problem is now I am the one with the sleepless nights. I could not believe the content of that letter and it was a long letter at that. There were ten handwritten pages, all written in our mother's handwriting. If I didn't know her handwriting so well, I would have to doubt that any of the contents were true, but as I know my mother, she never lied and was not one for making up stories and so this letter and its content must be true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight, dear diary, I do not know how to feel. When I told John about it he seemed to have the same reaction as Steven, it was up to us sisters what we wanted to do with this information. He did say that maybe we should go see Bishop Sam about it and see what Sam has to say, but Ina and I are not sure if that is the right thing to do either. Our mother's reputation is at stake, if the content of this letter makes it out to the public our mother's name will be shamed forever, even in her grave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart is so heavy tonight. The house is quiet, the family is all in bed and here I sit at the library table, mostly staring into the flame of the kerosene lamp that once was my mother's. The oak library table itself has been handed down through several generations on my mother's side of the family and a year ago I purchased it for $800 at her children's sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The morning of the children's sale John had handed me the checkbook and had said, "Ellie, this is your parent's sale, the last of what they had, look at the amount in the checkbook, you can buy whatever you like with the money that is in the checkbook. I remember looking at the amount that was in the checkbook and wondering if I could ever spend that much money at the sale. Be as it was, I purchased small items all day long, thinking about my children and items they might like to have as keepsakes from their grandparents, but all those things collectively had cost very little and so as it came time to sell the furniture I knew that I wanted the library table and so I bid my brother Alvin up and finally when the number hit $800 he smiled at me and shook his head and said, "let her have it." Everyone laughed and I have to say, I felt a little bit guilty, but I love that I have it, especially tonight as I sit here writing out all my thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diary, is it possible to sit so close to things that were my mother's and yet feel so far away from her and wonder if I ever really knew her? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am getting tired, my eyes are as heavy as my heart, I hope the "Good Man" allows me to get a good night's sleep and maybe in the new day some light will be shed on what to do with what Ina and I know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/05/dear-diary-may-5-2014-fiction.html" target="_blank">To read a prior posting please click here. </a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> This morning when we were ready to sit down to eat breakfast Simon came in the kitchen and smelled just awful. I said, "Simon! Have you fallen into the slop pail?" He looked at me with his baby blue eyes and said, "No mom, When I went out to bring the cows in from the pasture for their morning milking Trixie came with me and she scared up a rabbit and the rabbit went running in front of me with Trixie hot on the rabbit's tail and they tripped me and I fell sideways into a cow patty. I didn't think I should come to the house and change in case I have another mishap before breakfast so I scooted around in the clean grass and got most of it off my clothes and then I washed up in the barn when I got back to the barn with the cows. I could hardly believe how matter of fact he finds all this. I would have had to come to the house and gotten cleaned up if that had happened to me. All I said was, "well Simon you better quick go take a shower and change your clothes before breakfast." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The "stink" in our kitchen and through the house lingered all day. But I didn't care, it made me glad that my boy was safe and sound and nothing worse had happened to him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Simon, my wonderful little eight year old. How I love you. I love your adventuresome ways and how nothing ever daunts you. I love that you can fall into cow patties and keep on doing your chores. I see your father's strength and determination and my zest for life bred into you. May your life always be full of things that will keep you challenged and learning. I'm so glad God saw fit to make me your mama!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a breakfast of eggs, toast, hash brown, ham slices and some canned fruit cocktail the three girls and I cleaned up the kitchen and after the table was cleared and most of the dishes done I told the girls they could get started on baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies and while they did that I gathered the laundry together and headed to the wash room in the basement because there was no way I was going to have Simon's stinky clothes laying around for more than an hour past breakfast! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes I when I allow myself to, I wish for an electric washer and dryer. My neighbor, Karen, is a young Mennonite lady and she has a washer and dryer and sometimes I feel jealous, even on rainy days she can keep on doing her routine housework with never a worry. But then I have to remember what Bishop Sam always says, "We should not look at the world and see what they have and long for things because those newfangled things don't get you anywhere but closer to hell." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes I wonder about that. Is everybody who is not Amish...worldly? Karen seems like such a nice lady, demure in her ways and soft spoken and it makes me wonder if she is worldly, she goes to church and she and her husband even carry their Bibles to church. Doesn't that make them a Christian? I know I shouldn't be asking these questions and wonder about this stuff too deeply, but I can write it in my diary at least, maybe one day I will find an answer? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The little girls did good, their batch of chocolate chip cookies were all done and put up in the Tupperware container by the time I was finished hanging out the last bit of laundry. I can depend on Anna to keep the other two straight. For being twelve years old she sure is such a help and she is so patient with the two little girls. I think she is going to end up being a school teacher and when she gets married she will be a good mother. I can see that in her already. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the time we had finished with our cookie baking and laundry it was time to start dinner. John likes to eat his big meal at lunch time and then eat less at supper time. We heated up the last of the poor man's steak we had made for Sunday dinner yesterday and then we made a fresh pot of mashed potatoes and we had leftover corn and seven layer salad which ended up being plenty. I told the girls that I would be happy if all of the leftovers would be finished up because our refrigerator was getting so full of food. We had the last of the cherry pie and I added some ice cream to dessert to make so that the pie went around the table and everyone got a bite of dessert. It is so handy to have a gas refrigerator, boy, how I remember the days when the ice man came and filled up the ice box. There was no ice cream in those days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After dinner we quickly washed up the dishes and Anna swept the kitchen floor while six year old Arie ran the slop out to the pigs and then we all took a nap. John, Simon and little Junior were in the living room reading and falling asleep and the girls and I followed suit. We each found something to read but in the end we all got a few minutes of shut eye. John woke up first and got up and grabbed his hat and when he slammed the front door is when I woke up. I couldn't believe it was going on 2 o'clock already! We must have all been a little more tired than we thought! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke up the children and the boys went out to be with John, he was working on some harness today, some of it had torn when he was plowing the other day and so he has to fix it before he can use the team again. Plowing is finished, but the planting is just beginning, so he will need that harness in fine shape during the next couple of weeks. It helps that he used to work in a harness shop years ago and is now able to fix some smaller issues for himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The girls and I went outside to the garden and we planted some lettuce and peas and radishes. I'm thinking by next week I will have to plant more of the garden and make a trip to the greenhouse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After we finished up in the garden the girls and I put away the fresh laundry and then we all went to the barn to help out with the chores. Once the milking was done with I came inside and got supper started. I decided to have some tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. The kids love them and John likes a light bowl of soup after chores. For dessert I just opened up a can of peaches and a can of pears and we had some chocolate cake to go with the fruit if anyone wanted it. I like to cook and use up what is on my canning shelves in the basement. I want to clear off those shelves before canning season starts up again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, diary, it was a long and fruitful day. I'm sitting here on our porch swing tonight and it is a little bit chilly. I have my jacket on, as the temps have dropped to 43 degrees according the thermometer in the window here on the porch. The rest are inside one by one taking their showers and getting ready for bed. John popped pop corn for everyone, so I know we will be sweeping up the living room floor first thing in the morning. As I end this entry in my diary I am feeling glad for all the little things that happened today. Nothing major happened except for Simon having his stinky mishap early this morning. Otherwise I would call it a productive day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day recently our son was at our house and he asked me if I would consider going with him to his part time job some Saturday and take pictures and put them on my blog. He reads my blog and knows what I like to put out there and he thought it would be something to add. I didn't even have to think about it, I said I would love to but was curious if his boss would be okay with me riding along and taking pictures. He called Nelson, his part time boss, and asked him and got the "go-ahead" and so we decided that yesterday was the day I would tag-along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me just tell you, it was an adventure. Firstly, it wasn't what I expected that we would be doing and my eyes really opened up as to what all this kind of business can really do. Secondly, my son can make all things into an adventure. I had so much fun riding along with him and listening to him talking about the job and what he loves about it. I didn't hear him say one negative thing about this job and you would think that the kind of job it is, it would hold a bit of "negative" just because of what it is they do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's get right to it! As always, click on the pictures and they will come up in a gallery and you can see things a bit more up close and personal. If you like anyway. I took hundreds of pictures and am only sharing a fraction of them here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday afternoon, soon after 1 PM my ride comes driving up our driveway. A tanker truck, cleans out septic tanks to be specific! We didn't clean out septic tanks yesterday, though, we cleaned out other things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I liked this picture because of the sky overhead and how they colors of the truck and the sky were color coordinated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There he is, our son, Aaron, smiling and ready to go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first thing I noticed was the <strike>big</strike>...YIKES, very big steps leading up to my seat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the worst time getting in and out of that truck! I felt like a clutz going in and out of there. My son can just scurry up the steps like no man's business! Whew, park one of them their semi tractors in my front yard and it will be a work out getting in and out of the cab for awhile! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaron had gone into our house to get something so I quick took a couple pictures because why? Because I'm picture taking happy all day long, of course! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stick shift is the only way to go. "Automatic trucks take the fun out of trucking", so says Aaron. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we were going up some hills he explained it, how the motor speed has to catch up with the road speed or something or other and I got completely lost and if you are a truck driver and you're reading this, here is where you can chuckle. I couldn't explain it to you to save my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, I will tell you I was so impressed with how Aaron was telling me in details how things work and I was thinking, "That's my boy, and he knows stuff!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have arrived at our first location. We had to back the truck into this place and not hit the trailer beside us. We were hauling "water" they used to wash eggs with here at this facility so they can send the eggs out to the stores for <b>us</b> to purchase them then. <i>(I won't use the term consumer here, because the term consumer is so sterile for me...I hate "consumer" reports..you all know that is you and me, right? I'm not a consumer, I'ma human being and I hate that they refer to us as consumers.)</i> Sorry, that was a bunny trail. Anyway, the water gets stored in a large underground tank and then someone has to come pump it out and haul it to a waste treatment plant. That is what we were doing yesterday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are little "glass" gauges so they can see how full the tank is. There is one low on the tank, one in the middle of the tank and, you guessed it, one near the top of the tank. We watched those gauges carefully to know how full we were getting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those very long hoses go all the way around the tanker, and on the sides you can see there is a sort of bed for the hoses to rest. I noticed that everything the job needed; this truck was nice and geared toward functionality. Whoever put this truck together knew what they were doing. It actually has a dump bed on here and so if Nelson is hauling something like thick sludge, he can put his tank at an angle and rinse out the sludge and clean the tank out really well. I was impressed with how clean the whole outfit really was. I was prepared to see remnants of toilet paper somewhere on the equipment, but everything was so clean. I've actually worked in a couple restaurants in my life and this thing is cleaner than any restaurant I've ever worked in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the big blue round thing in the middle of the tanker? That is a cap that comes off and so when Nelson washes out sludge he can open that cap and the sludge comes out though there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I nice blue ladder leading to the top of the tank. I was glad we didn't need to go there yesterday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is very loud when it is working. There is a vacuum system involved in all this. I didn't get it completely how it worked, but Aaron could tell you if you asked him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice Aaron isn't using his green hoses, but rather the treatment plant's red hoses. There is a basin we had to pump the egg water into and then a sump pump kind of pump actually pumps the water from there into one of those big blue silos you see in the background. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had about 15 minutes of unload time here and so we talked about stink. Aaron says that this is nothing. Human waste stinks, but if you have to suck up dog kennels holding tanks, THAT is where the real stink is at. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"But," said Aaron as he spit out some of his "chew", "you get used to it after awhile and it all smells the same." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a pretty good picture of the whole truck here. Aaron loves the colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually. He. Loves. The. Whole. Truck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>But he loves the jake brake the most.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The waste water treatment provided Nelson with a door opener for the gate. Aaron is closing it as we go back to get our second load of egg water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the way I got a few more pictures inside the cab. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost looks like a car except for the extra gadgets on the left of what we normally see in a car. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those gadgets have to do with the beloved jake brake. wink wink</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was after he had loaded the truck, see it is all clean. No residue, no egg shells or poopy toilet paper from prior usages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was me going down the steps. I felt so high up there and the steps are so far apart. I figured out how out of shape I really am trying to scramble up and down those steps! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It takes about ten minutes to fill up the tanker with the egg water so while it was filling up I was walking around the truck taking pictures. They thought of everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a closer shot just to see if closer up he might look mean. Somehow I felt like the truck smiled at me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lights and a very loud horn standing at attention on top of the cab, ready to do their duty when duty calls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a shovel nestled in among the hoses. I wondered where all that shovel has been. I probably don't wanna know! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the little black mail box beside the door? Aaron had to fill out a paper telling the egg business owner how many loads of egg water he took from the holding tank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we had unloaded the second load back at the waste water treatment plant we then headed out onto the highway and went a little further to another business, this time it was a potato chip factory. On the way over to the potato chip factory I played around with the "air ride seat controls." I let the seat go all the way up and my toes were only touching the floor at this point and I was up so high my head was close to the top of the cab. Aaron and I had a big discussion about this. He was telling me that some truck drivers like their seat all the way up because their ride is more smooth and it was, when I was up there in the air there was much less bouncing around, but I have to agree with Aaron, it just feels more relaxed sitting lower to the ground even if you feel a few more of the bumps in the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we pulled in to the potato chip factory this is what we saw, a van trailer sitting up in the air on an angle. Aaron told me there were potatoes in that trailer and they were dumping the potatoes out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a wonderful afternoon spent with my son. He used to be a truck driver and one Saturday morning a couple years ago I had gone with him to Virginia and back on his truck. That had been a long day, but fun day too. I did enjoy this a little bit more, though, because there was more to do and experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to you, my reader, if you need a good septic tank cleaning, Nelson can help you out...or if you have any kind of egg water or sludge of all kinds. You know he is able to do it all. </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045825709116217366noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-513486507807333459.post-27811173479966207612014-05-03T06:41:00.001-07:002014-05-03T06:41:23.458-07:00misty eyes, lump in throat, loved completely<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart is full. It doesn't take much for me to know I have been blessed. It is the moments when I stop - completely- in my tracks and listen and look and watch that I am given gifts that if I didn't take the time I would miss it all. Since I have this new camera and started up my blog last year I am even more aware of the little things each day that often put a period at the end of the day and it feels like God is telling me, "Sweet one, I cherish you, yes YOU, and I want you to understand this in so many ways." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God loves me....and YOU! He wants to show us how much and in many ways and forms. In my heart he shows me by giving me that knowledge and feeling of having been completely forgiven for all my sins. All I have to do is come to him, quiet my heart and talk to him, repent and just know that I am again clean and pure of heart. You all can't see the "forgiven" in my heart but I can show you through the pictures I take how he speaks to me and how he helps me understand how much grace and mercy has been extended to me and how he blesses me through his creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The. beauty. of. his. creation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My heart just swelled this morning as I was reviewing my pictures I had taken during the week. It left my eyes misty and a little lump in my throat. I cherish each moment God allows me to capture and understand his giving heart toward me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful half grown lamb. I love sheep, lambs and anything that goes baaaa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I liked this picture because of the fence in the front, it gave a true picture of where the lamb is, his/her fellow sheep in the background, the green grass, and the barn right there on the edge of the picture. Providing shelter for the lamb. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much do I love this? I can't even put it in words. The setting looks old, but it is in the "here and now." You can see a horse's ear coming up the hill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One night I came home and Mr. Wonderful was doing his favorite chore. He actually gave me a big smile and a thumbs up when he saw me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They looked like gigantic pillows of cotton candy floating through the sky. I tried to imagine myself laying on one of those clouds and floating all over the universe checking out the world from that vantage point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These folks were on their way to church last Sunday. The truck in front of me went to the same place I went. I followed him like forever and then he put his blinker on and turned in at my brother's church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My beautiful niece was baptized on Sunday and here they are ready for her to be baptized. Her pastor is standing in the basin, and she and her dad, my brother, are climbing in the basin. My brother helped baptize her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this picture. Here she is on screen giving her beautiful and inspiring testimony while she, her dad look on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is where the lump in my throat arrives. She has just been baptized and her dad looks so proud of her, she looks so happy, and if you notice her t-shirt. It says, "Forgiven." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a wonderful week it has been. God has shown himself in my life over and over and over again. The only thing I know to do is to continue living for him through the hard times and accept the goods ones as favor and blessing from the one who created all of us and all that is in this world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be blessed my friends and if you don't know what it feels like to be forgiven and at peace, please let me know and I will try to help you find that wonderful solution to an otherwise often unhappy/unsettled lifestyle.</span></div>
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I am looking forward to Saturday afternoon because I am going on another adventure and will document it as I go and hope to take a bunch of pictures to show my readers. Thinking about what is ahead and knowing how much space my card still holds in my camera I thought I should clean out some of the pictures that I don't want. While browsing my camera tonight I thought I should share a post of some of the pictures that I haven't shared with you before. As always I will be commenting about each picture. </div>
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I observed this older Amish gentleman roadside selling homemade birdhouses. I liked him. He seems jolly and friendly. If I see him again this summer I will probably stop and chat with him a bit. </div>
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My eye notices all kinds of things as I'm out and about. One thing I really notice are the run down out buildings scattered about in all kinds of places. I loved this little outbuilding. I think it must be a shelter for pigs or some smaller animal. I like the setting, the very large tree and fence providing a sort of cozy space for the animals. </div>
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I pass this little store, "the book shanty" nearly every day. It always looks "closed", but it interests me. It has character and I can imagine a little old Amish lady inside on a rocking chair ready to take a small child on her lap and read the child a story. I'm sure this is not so, but I can always imagine, can't I? </div>
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I never tire of coming home. Last Fall, this was a scene I witnessed a lot when I was driving up our driveway. The neighbor's horses grazing, the clouds billowing over our barn and the night light already burning because the evenings were so dark so soon. </div>
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I couldn't tell you when I took this one, but it had to be last fall. Tonight I noticed the clouds off in the distance by the young filly's legs. It looks like the clouds have turned into a line of mist across the picture. The filly looks pensive. </div>
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Two things I notice in this picture. Ace, my black and white cat is very intently poised to pounce on some unsuspecting "breakfast". I remember I took this in the morning. The other thing I noticed was the color scheme, the contrast of the black and white cat and the tans-almost-orange hues all over the picture. </div>
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One of my most favorite pictures I've ever taken. I love the clouds, the corn, the shed, the tree. I love them all individually, but collectively they help me imagine all kinds of stories. I imagine a murder may have happened in that shed and the corn is hiding all kinds of secrets. The clouds are setting the mood and tone for the scene in a movie drama. Or I imagine a child sneaks away to this little hideaway and it becomes his/her shelter and protection from an abusive father. The secrets the corn holds for that child will never be told. The clouds hold back the storm for as long as they can so as not to frighten the young one who is raw and hurt. </div>
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I had to grin out loud when I saw this one stored away in my camera. Mr. Wonderful had blown snow and had made a path to the barn. Of course, the cats found the path and were walking on it rather than get their feet snowy. It is definitely a winter's night, this night. </div>
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I love this one. It is a picture of our church. Our class was getting together this night for a Christmas gathering and I took this picture as we arrived. Doesn't it look so cozy and homey? </div>
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Mr. Wonderful reading the Christmas story to Little Guy before we unwrap our gifts. This is now a family tradition at our house. </div>
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Betsy and Allen. Our new friends. She was on the Breaking Amish LA season, if any of you watched the show you might recognize her. They spent part of Christmas with us. I want to go tour his business this summer, he has houses and houses of hens that lay eggs and he sells the eggs. Wouldn't that be interesting to see how that all works? I think so. </div>
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You can read about my adventures on her farm <a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/01/adventures-on-my-sister-in-laws-farm.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/01/more-pictures-from-my-sister-in-laws.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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<i>Cell phones, Fax, Email, Text, Blog, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Face Time, Skype, Blue Tooth, Sync, WiFi, Sirius, GPS. These are all terms used in today's world of tech and communication to make our lives so called "easier." Sounds almost more like a prison to me. My phone, which is not a smart phone, is still smart enough to call someone without me knowing about it. For some reason it dials the number nine a lot which is my sister's speed dial number. It has called her so often that if I want to call her for real she won't answer the phone. So if you have a smart phone, is mine a dumb phone? </i><br />
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<i>My phone has this sensitive little button on the side for voice recognition. Many times when I put it in my pocket it will activate and say, "please say a command." So I have to pull it out of my pocket and tell it to shut up. Are we any better off than we were fifty years ago? Sometimes my memory takes me back to my boyhood days like when I first learned to skate or walked a mile to school in ten below zero weather only to find out that school was closed and I would have to walk back home again. </i><br />
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<i>Being the youngest of four boys I had to learn to skate with old worn out hand-me-downs, three sizes too big, stuffing some old socks in the front of the skates to make them fit or use the kind that you strapped some belts around the skates that strapped unto shoes, this kind must be somewhere on The Antique Road Show by now.</i><br />
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<i>Maybe we have lost our innocence as a society where we enjoy simple pleasures of life like a cow pie. My memory, again, takes me back to the down of an early autumn morning with the air crisp and clear, my breath floating like little clouds catching the first glint of the morning sun peeking over the horizon. My aim was not to just do a chore of bringing in our ten cows for milking but to see what kind of adventure this new day bring. There it was, a fresh cow pie with a steam from its fresh warmth streaming upward. This was my chance to warm up my feet in this pile of cow dung, feeling the warmth squeezing up through my toes is a memory that still lingers with me to this day. </i><br />
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<i>Do we take time to just enjoy life? Last Sunday afternoon we went to watch our 8 year old grandson play golf. After a long hard winter it was such a thrill to watch him play with 80 degree Spring weather, riding a golf cart with our other two grandchildren. </i><br />
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<i>Today, though, I want to share with you something so rare that according to my memory I have found it only once in my entire life. Maybe you could find it some other places on earth like the South Pole but I'm not sure you could ever find it here in Ohio. I've wonder many times in our hectic, on-the-go, got to have it right now lifestyle world when do people find time to talk to God? Or is he someone we just use when we need him or are in trouble? You see God created us in the first place to have a relationship with him. God is our Father and he wants to communicate with his children and give gifts to them. </i><br />
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<i>This gift so rare was given to me from God himself on a Christmas morning about twenty years ago. Maybe it was the little boy in me anticipating the excitement of Christmas morning that woke me up around four in the morning? This particular Christmas morning, as I filled my lungs with the fresh clean air there was an anticipation and wonderment stirring within me that I had to be a part of. About a quarter mile behind our house is a woods called "Bear Hollow." On this Christmas morning Bear Hollow was beckoning me to come and visit. Standing under the trees that had shed their leaves in the autumn and on a fresh blanket of snow, it was here that I was given this gift so rare that all I could do was stand in awe. My heart and soul were so touched by this gift that my emotions could not contain it all so I just stood there and cried. </i><br />
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<i>So, what was this gift that was given me that Christmas morning that was so rare that this is probably the only time in my whole life that I will find it? The gift I was receiving that morning was the gift of total silence. There were no motors running, no cars, trucks or airplanes, no horses hooves clopping on the pavement, no kids yelling, no dogs barking, no wind blowing. It was like standing in the Cathedral of God with the snow tapping a gentle tune on the tree branches and a little brook rippling over the rocks below me. This is a gift I will have stored in my memory for as long as I live. </i><br />
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As I was reading over Rob's article I could feel his frustration with the cell phone issues and then to be able to go back in his memory to a morning where there was total silence except for the snow and the creek rippling. No one can ever take that experience away from him. </div>
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A few Sunday's ago we had what seemed to be Winter's Last Hurrah and there were some crazy things going on in our lives and so Mr. Wonderful and I actually skipped church and we went out into the wonderful snowy world we lived in at that moment and got some fresh air in our lungs and basked in the beauty of God's creation. I was able to capture some of what we experienced with my camera. What Rob was talking about, that gift of silence. Mr. Wonderful and I experienced some of that silence that Sunday morning we were out and about. Every now and then a car would pass us, but then once they were out of hearing distance it was silent again and except for the clicking of my camera it was pretty much a gift of silence. I will have to figure out how to do panoramic shots on my camera because the fullness of the forest and the snow that day left us totally in awe of the beauty that God had created. </div>
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Rob wrote a book called "Dying to Live". I've not read the full of it, but from what I've read it is a quick read and rich in stories about life lessons he has learned. <i>Choice Books</i> sells it and if you are interested in purchasing it, but can't find it, please let me know and I will put you in touch with Rob.</div>
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<i>"A book conceived in suffering and birthed through prayer, Rob's story and his deep personal relationship with Jesus Christ will touch your heart as you contemplate your own spiritual journey." </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...those barns and houses, white in color with the candy apple metal roof over their head? It reminds me of some of those celebrity types who have the pale, pale skin and makeup and the bright red lips. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kinda like ketchup on a ghost. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....when you see someone being unkind to another person or animal, is when it brings out the unkind in you? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You get those unkind feelings toward the unkind person you've just been observing. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hate that. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...for the creative type you think of your best ideas when you are some place inconvenient, like driving a car, or taking a shower. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've lost tons of great lines and ideas because I was not able to write them down right away, thinking I would remember for later. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...when you get acrylic nails that your nail beds are no longer the same after you take the acrylics off. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Punishment for vanity? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I was told it would happen before I had them done.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kind of like sin...fun while you do it, but regret later on. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....when you make up your mind to begin a new habit, let's say, walking for 30 minutes every evening and then it rains, and rains, and rains that first night. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know it isn't raining because I decided to walk 30 minutes beginning tonight, but still, it makes me feel like my plans have been sabotaged before they began.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....those folks out on social media making vague and/or sometimes very blatant statements, and you know they are really calling out someone specifically and especially the Christian folks seem to be so hard on their fellow Christians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> No "Pollyanna" tonight. Just sitting here with a somewhat restless heart, mulling over many things. My heart feels heavy tonight for a person near to me who is in the throes of some really hard stuff. I have no idea how to help this person, so the only thing I know to do is to pray. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months back I had an idea that was swarming inside this pretty little head of mine and so one day recently I said to Mr. Wonderful. "Mr. Wonderful, I would like to have a porch swing in the front of the house so that this summer we would be able to have someplace to sit and enjoy our fantabulous view. I want just a nook and I think I know where that nook is. What do you think?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Wonderful is not a man of many words, but action. He likes action and so it took only my little idea to get him into action and so he announces to me one day soon after our little discussion that we were going "swing shopping" that Friday night and I was like, "serious?". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After "Polly" the swing was ordered we then discussed where for sure to place her and if we placed her where I wanted her, what that foundation would look like. I mentioned I liked those "pavers" that folks are using. Mr. Wonderful and I also discussed how big we would make the "patio" for the swing and came up with from "shutter to shutter" on the garage. and that is it. We would still have a little bit of ground on each side of the patio for some flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That week we went looking for pavers and after a long and hard search, <a href="http://www.lookinginmyrearviewmirror.com/2014/04/amish-country-swan-encounter.html" target="_blank">a swan chasing me</a>, and some discussion with our children we found out that the more people in the discussion, the more ideas, and out of those ideas a project like this can grow in size and proportion. It helps when you have one person on the team who has "been there and done that" before. Our son in law did this kind of work for a long time and so his ideas are wonderful and his help even more wonderful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our son in law explained to us about "sitting walls" and how they provide not only extra seating, but they also provide a certain look of being "done". We were all convinced we needed two sitting walls and the whole patio had to spread out from there to there, rather than from shutter to shutter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, with pavers and caps and sand and gravel and a packer ordered and everyone on one page that this weekend is "THE" weekend to to get this project done and finished, everyone stopped by to help on Friday night already and even one of our friends came to help as well. My dad was involved in picking up the pavers with his tractor and the neighbor's trailer and somehow we ended up with most everything we needed for the project and so the <strike>fun</strike> insanity ensued. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, late afternoon, our son in law and Mr. Wonderful started with digging out the foundation. It had to be precise and correct or we would not have had it level with the sidewalk that runs in front of that little piece of ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Us ladies provided a lot of food for the guys again on Saturday. Roast Beef Au Jus sandwiches, French Onion soup, and a potato casserole were the main dishes for lunch. And then once the work was all said and done and the clean up over with, we ordered pizza from our local little pizzeria and filled them all up again before they all made their way home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Wonderful and I were so tired out, we were in bed by 8:30 last night. I know I was asleep before 9 PM. It was a good tired though, but we both figured out we aren't as young as we once were and we really do need our kids sometimes to help us with projects like this. Sure, we could have hired someone to come do this for us, but it ended up being a fun project for us all and the children and grandchildren and our family and friends will all get to enjoy this little outdoor room when they come over. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We feel so blessed to have children and friends and family who are willing to help us out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, now for a bit of show and tell. Here are some pictures. As we decorate and add things to our little outdoor space, I will try to add pictures on Facebook this summer so you can see what it really looks like in the end. </span></div>
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The famous "before" picture. At this point the plants had all been pulled out, so it looks a little bit messy.</div>
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Digging out the foundation. Our son in law hard at work. Mr. Wonderful taking a break. I didn't get many pictures of the digging part because by the time I arrived home from my 8-5 they were half way through with that little project. </div>
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The dumped the dirt in our pasture. I wish I knew how many wheelbarrow loads of dirt they hauled out to the pasture. </div>
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We had many helpers, all arriving in various modes of transportation. My dad's tractor and his neighbor's trailer brought the pavers over from a local surplus store. They don't deliver, so we did the next best thing we had. Dad and his tractor, or as my sister and I have dubbed the blue piece of machinery..."truckster". Because dad uses it more like a truck than a tractor. <i>smile.</i></div>
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The first layer of sand and gravel have been carefully placed and leveled out literally. Our son in law was very careful about the leveling part of the project.</div>
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Friday night when the fellows went indoors to eat Mexican Haystack, I slipped outdoors to take a few pictures. I loved this one with the wheelbarrows all in a row. </div>
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Pavers lined up for tomorrow. (Saturday morning.) </div>
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Saturday morning, bright and early, placing the second layer of sand and gravel on the foundation. </div>
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I like our son's stretched out look here. </div>
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You can see just how thick this gravel had to be. I was amazed it took so much, but I guess that is how you do it. </div>
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The border pavers have been laid down on top of carefully placed sand over the gravel and the inside pavers are now being laid down. </div>
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Everyone is a busy bee. Teamwork to the fullest and a lot of joking around. </div>
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Our daughter and "little guy" checking out the progress. Here you see a better view of the sand and the lines in the sand, everything was carefully done so there wouldn't be crooked lines and dips in the floor of the patio. </div>
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Since we have some downspout coming down on the corner of our garage they had to take some care with that. Here is they are taking care of things. </div>
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Of course, on a beautiful day, I will capture anything that catches my eye. Our neighbor's horses were out and about in their pasture. I noticed the green of that pasture more. No more dead wintry brown, but beautiful and glorious summer greens! </div>
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The project is really taking shape. </div>
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At the end of the patio you can see a sitting wall taking shape. </div>
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And there they are, but sitting walls and pillars. </div>
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This is the packer. It is noisy as all get out, but somehow pounds the pavers down into the gravel and sand and creates a sturdy floor. It was amazing to watch it. </div>
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Our yard was a mess for a few hours. </div>
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This picture should have been inserted before the packer. In this step our son in law spread a special sand all over the pavers and then swept the sand into the cracks. After the sand was in the cracks to his liking was when he did the packing with the packer machine. </div>
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There is the finished product. We still have to apply a sealer after we clean up a few of the white stones...they have some mold on them and need to be cleaned before we can seal the whole thing. </div>
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To think we initially had planned to just go from outside shutter to outside shutter and no sitting walls to what we have now leaves me feeling so blessed that somebody else knew better than we did. It is so pretty and I can't wait to spend a few minutes on this little space before I start my days this summer and then to end our evenings on here as well.</div>
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And to put a period at the end of the day, this glorious sunset! It was just beautiful! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is so much to see. Things might be dead in the little Amish towns on a Saturday night, but nothing compares to taking a Sunday afternoon drive through my Amish Country and allowing my eyes to feast on all that is available to my eye's pleasure. If I could bring each of my readers on a real Sunday afternoon drive with me, I would. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I carry my camera with me almost all the time, barring I have to keep it home because I am recharging the batteries. Some folks might say it has become an obsession because my camera is almost always nestled inside my handbag, I am almost always prepared to take a picture or two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week when we had a cold spell and some snow, it was so cold that when I came out of the store and wanted to open the trunk of my car I saw this icicle growing up. It is right in front of the "R" in Prix.<i> (So, now you all know I drive a dirty black Grand Prix) </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know that moment you feel like someone is watching you? Well, I was trying to get a good picture of this upside down icicle and it took some maneuvering and I am sure I just looked like a crazy lady taking so long to take a picture or two of the trunk of my car and sure enough when I looked around there was a young fellow sitting in his nice warm truck watching the show. He had this look on his face like, "lady, you are crazy and I can prove it." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had to drive behind these young chappies for a little while, long enough for me to get a shot through Mr. Wonderful's truck window. An Amish pick up truck...hauling wood for their parent's cook stove, I'm guessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another Amish pick up. A smaller version. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently Mr. Wonderful and I went to shop for a porch swing and we were told of this place a solid hour from our house, so we made the trek to this place of business and they had a lot going on. They were "excavating the ground with horses and some make-shift plow thingy. I didn't get too many pictures, but I did get the laundry waving in the wind over a very dirty ground underneath. The elements in the picture didn't seem to go together really well, but it was the reality of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This horse and buggy waiting patiently on his or her owner to leave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally the young lady and her little girl emerged from the business and here they are getting ready to leave. I wanted to take a more close up picture, but I can't bring myself to get too close, I still try to respect them to a certain extent. If I totally respected their wishes I would never snap any pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Wonderful and I own three acres of land. Two of those acres are an actual field because we used to have sheep and raise lambs. Now it stands empty, except for our Amish neighbor now grazes his horses in our field. It helps us because we have less mowing to do and it helps him out with more pastureland for his horses. The other Saturday he and his brother were hauling manure all over the fields. I stepped out into our garage and got a couple good pictures for you all to see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is our neighbor and I noticed he had his little girl with him. How cute is that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you click on this picture you will see the little girl on her daddy's lap inside the bobcat while he is loading the manure spreader with another load of manure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know, this is not so pretty or anything, just some laundry on the line. Maybe I should have omitted this one. Anyway, I uploaded it, so here it is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All these pictures were mostly taken on a whim, just by stopping at the roadside, pulling my camera out of my handbag and clicking away. I have more pictures that I hope to share soon. It is time for me to hit the hay though. Tomorrow morning always comes way too soon. </span></div>
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