Neighborliness and community: paying back past kindnesses
Tag Archives: Lovina Eicher
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 ›› 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 ›› Wedding work frolic planned; sister promises eggs to help make wedding noodles
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 ››
What do you do when the puppy thinks your flower bed is a playground?
It is a cool June morning with temperatures only in the low 60s. I had to close a few windows as it was chilly with them all open. Summer is officially here now.
It seems empty around here. My husband Joe, daughter Susan, and son Benjamin are working. Daughter Lovina is staying at Elizabeth and Timothy’s … Continue Reading ››
Summer menus major in strawberries and family memories
We are halfway through June! It is a lovely but warm evening. Everyone has retired for the night except daughter Verena, who is reading on the porch swing, and me. I am also on the porch, writing at the patio table. I’m enjoying the peacefulness. God has created such a wonderful world, and people do … Continue Reading ››
Hop in the pony buggy for the last day of school
It’s a nice sunny day for the clothes to dry, and we have the lines filled with laundry. We have been blessed with several rains over the weekend and this past week.
Here's the pony and buggy, giving a ride to Lovina's cookbook photographer … Continue Reading ››
Here's the pony and buggy, giving a ride to Lovina's cookbook photographer … Continue Reading ››