Category Archives: Salads

Salads

Cleaning house for Susan’s wedding, Eichers save worst bedroom for last . . .

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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 ››
Desserts, Salads

On Lovina’s birthday, another summer wedding gets “published”!

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It is 6:42 a.m. and our three youngest just left with the bus for another day at school. They are counting the days left of this term. Eight and one-half days left! I still have a hard time getting used to the bus coming this early. All the years our children went to school the … Continue Reading ››
Salads

After Mother’s Day, Lovina’s all set for fishing: license, rod, and life jacket!

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Hi. This is Lovina’s 18-year-old daughter, Verena. I hope all you readers are doing great! Part of my Mother’s Day gift to my dear mother is writing the column for her this week. I also gave her a lighted crystal cube that says “I Love You Mom.” Dad and all of us children gave her two … Continue Reading ››
Salads

Time Enough: Signs of spring and a new baby “Lovina”!

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Our time changed to what we call “fast time” on Sunday. I do not like the changing of clocks back and forth. I wish it would stay one way or the other. My husband Joe tilled one of our gardens on Saturday. He is getting spring fever and is eager to get some potatoes planted. I … Continue Reading ››
Salads

Mild, dreary holiday weather has Eichers hoping for colder, sunnier days

Monday evening: supper is over, and everyone is relaxing for the evening. It is Christmas week already. Only a few days of 2015 left! Daughter Susan is on a two-week break from the RV factory. The school has also closed its doors for two weeks. My husband, Joe, worked today but is now off work until … Continue Reading ››
Salads, Vegetables

Eicher family adjusts to new routine after daughter’s marriage

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This is already the last day of September. Only three more months of 2015 remain. Time—it does not stand still. Joe and I traveled to New Haven, Ind., one evening with sister Emma and Jacob and sisters Verena and Susan. We attended the viewing of my dad’s cousin Frances. Our sympathy goes to the family. It … Continue Reading ››
Salads

Grateful for safekeeping, help from friends and children, plus dandelions!

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A beautiful April spring day! Sun is shining and the mercury on the thermometer keeps rising. I love this weather and all the signs that spring is here. The tulips are looking really nice. Everyone here at the Eicher house is gone for the day except me. My husband Joe, son Benjamin, and daughters Elizabeth, … Continue Reading ››
Salads

Grilling for 60 at family picnic: 12-layer Jell-O salad echoes colorful fall

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We have entered the month of October. It’s so hard to believe that autumn is here and the trees are showing their autumn splendor. Our yard is accumulating more leaves every day.
U-pick grape arbor
U-pick grape arbor.
Daughter Verena, 16, and I just came home … Continue Reading ››