Sheepish Farewell

         It was time to say good-by.       “Can I pet the  sheep one more time ?” asked Andrea (age 5)     Andrea’s mom and dad were missionaries on furlough.   They had stayed with us two days to regroup.  They were  ready to hit the road.   Our daughter had  bottle fed 3 orphan lambs  from birth. Mary, BoPeep, and Davey [...]

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Grandma’s Rye Bread

 
      Oma is German for Grandma.   Oma came to Ellis Island from  Germany at 19.  One of my strongest memories of her is her  rye bread.  Before she died she showed me how to make it.  The recipe was in her head,  I still remember the two of us  calculating  the ratios of flour,  potato water, honey, yeast.  
     Making [...]

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Enjoying An Evening With Robert Fulghum’s Maybe (Maybe Not)

    
                  
      The Midwest is getting hammered today with an ice storm.  The Mrs and I were starting to get on each others nerve today so  I offered to read her a chapter from Robert Fulghum’s book Maybe (Maybe Not)  to make up for my bad
       If you’ve never read any of his stuff, you owe [...]

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IQ Test, Theology Test, Coffee Test, The Pooh Test, Look Alike Test

     Sometimes it’s good just to take a break.  Included in this post are 5 tests I recently  took..check these out…if you take one (or all) let me know what you discover!  
    First a Quick and Dirty I Q test .
    There are 12 questions….and the results are pretty accurate

Your IQ Is ..I’ll tell you my score only if you tell [...]

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