Neighborliness and community: paying back past kindnesses
All posts by Lovinas Amish Kitchen
Horse-and-buggy trip to Indiana caps the end of summer
We had a nice rain tonight. Our rain gauge shows that we had more than a half inch. Our garden still has tomatoes, cabbage, green peppers and hot peppers left in it. Yesterday we canned almost eighty pints of pizza sauce. We gave twenty pints to Mose and Susan. We also canned hot peppers. Susan … Continue Reading ››
Susan’s wedding is past, but the leftovers remain
It’s Thursday again, and my plan to have this column on its way yesterday failed. The weeks still fly by since the wedding is past!
Three little pigs? What great ways to … Continue Reading ››
Three little pigs? What great ways to … Continue Reading ›› Lovina details the joy and work of her daughter’s wedding
We had a nice but warm day for the wedding of Mose and Susan, our second oldest daughter. There was a light rain in the forenoon, but it didn’t last long. We are very much in need of rain. The grass is turning brown everywhere.
On the … Continue Reading ›› An Eicher family friend lifts the veil on Susan’s wedding preparations
Editor’s Note: Lovina Eicher is busy with preparations for her daughter Susan’s wedding. Guest columnist Ruth Boss, an “English” friend of Lovina’s, provides a ringside seat for the big August 5 wedding.
Wedding preparations have been in full swing all week for Susan and Mose’s wedding this Friday. Last Saturday the wedding wagons were delivered: a … Continue Reading ››
Eicher family makes final preparations for Amish wedding
It is Thursday morning as I write this, [July 28], and time keeps moving on faster and faster it seems. The wedding is tomorrow in a week! It’s getting too close for comfort! Tomorrow evening the wedding cook wagon, the cooler, and the trailer with the … Continue Reading ›› Dilemma: calculating how many noodles to make for hundreds of wedding guests
It is Thursday morning and it looks like we will have another hot day. Yesterday’s temperature reached the nineties and the humidity was high. The humidity is high again this morning so we want to get everything done we can outside before it gets too hot.
I have a breakfast casserole in the oven for our … Continue Reading ››
Wedding work frolic planned; sister promises eggs to help make wedding noodles
Parasailing, fireworks, waterfalls, and reunion highlight Eicher vacation
Wednesday evening—everyone is taking it easy tonight. Mose, daughters Susan and Verena, and son Benjamin went fishing . We put in a long day so it was relaxing to them to go take the boat on the lake. The rest of us are outside around a campfire. It is so peaceful out here. We had … Continue Reading ››
Cleaning house for Susan’s wedding, Eichers save worst bedroom for last . . .
We are wrapping up the month of June. The year 2016 is now already halfway done. Amazing how time seems to go faster and faster. The wedding for Mose and Susan is only five weeks away. It’s getting too close way too fast for me!
We still want to make noodles for the wedding, and there … Continue Reading ››