Hi Pam....welcome to the list! You are going to love it here....we talk about everything, and even talk about genealogy in between the wonderful food, customs of the PA Dutch, Germans lessons from Herr Reed in FL, (he's also the brain in the bunch) nuances of our English language, flowers from Holly Hocks to others, events in our areas, and customs that are unique to each of us, like what we do on our birthdays, Rick's stale Christmas cookies and virtual kitchen, Lynn's stories about Glenside and other areas of Reading, and lots and lots of other things like star gazing, (Rick B. is an expert) and again we talk about food, and food, and food, so you will certainly find some wonderful "gut" recipes here! We also hear about the weather in each other's areas, so if you want to go to AZ, it's here, FL, it's here, PA, it's here, NJ, it's here, and so many more locations. Enjoy the journey! Sheila in WV --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

We haven't played Phase 10 since our dear neighbors moved to TN over 2 years ago. I do have the two decks of cards in my roll top desk, for when we have company. And, we are to have a visit from my cousin Gary, and his wife Sept. 8th, so I hope to break out the deck then. OR, if I find the game Rook, when I go to WalMart today, I will break out those cards. It's not often that we get company long enough to play a game, usually we get to talking so much that it's time for them to leave before we even think of it. BUT, we certainly would rather talk and get to know about people's lives, than play cards, but if time allows, we are always ready for a game of something. We love to play Sequence, too, or Clue :o) Lynn Linda wrote: I simply LOVE phase 10. When my oldest son was about in kindergarten I would make him play that game with me over and over again!!! I think he got pretty tired of it, but he played anyhow!!!! If I didn`t have to get back to sewing I would sit at Rick`s table right now and get a game started!!!!

Have you gone to the old Rajah since they made it the Sovereign Center? Does it look anything like the GRAND old theatre it was when the Shriners had it? I LOVED going through that place, whenever I attended something there. It certainly was beautiful. :o) Lynn Karen wrote: REO Speedwagon will be performing at Reading's Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Sat, Oct 27, 2007 08:00 PM. The Sovereign Performing Arts Center is the former Rajah Theater (on N. 6th St), now refurbished and spruced up. Maybe it's a good excuse to come to Reading to visit, take in the concert and do some family research all in the same trip! Pam wrote: >Hi! > > REO Speedwagon was one of my favorite music groups > from the 70's & 80's.If memory serves they were > originally from Champaign,IL. Before they got famous > they used to be the bar band for the college circuit. >I saw them play once while I was in college. Very >cool!

Yes, this does sound rather interesting, doesn't it!!! I wonder if my husband knows about this one, or his parents. They are into mysteries, though I don't believe they have ever mentioned this one. I'll have to forward the information to Mike. So it is a really good book? :o) Lynn Judy wrote: I will look into that one. Sounds really interesting. Thanks for sharing. Karen wrote: > If you want to read an facinating book, have a go at "The Professor and > the Madman: -[ A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the-Making of the 'Oxford > English Dictionary' ]" by Simon Winchester, published by HarperColllins. > It's welldone, facinating insight to the story of the making of the Oxford > English Dictionary. Judy wrote: According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the h is still silent in >>"vehicle" and "honor", but it is still spoken in historical. >> >>If you ever question any pronunciation, the ultimate source is the Oxford >>English Dictionary. That has every word used in the English language, >>from >>its beginnings through each change of use. It is also like 18-20 HUGE >>volumes big. Most libraries carry them.

I will look into that one. Sounds really interesting. Thanks for sharing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Fox" <karenmfox@verizon.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] Oxford English Dictionary > If you want to read an facinating book, have a go at "The Professor and > the Madman: -[ A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the-Making of the 'Oxford > English Dictionary' ]" by Simon Winchester, published by HarperColllins. > It's welldone, facinating insight to the story of the making of the Oxford > English Dictionary. > > ~Karen from Berks > >>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:33:08 -0400 >>From: "Judy Brannon" <stampingal@earthlink.net> >>Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] 'istorical >>To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> >>Message-ID: <003401c7eb12$b05de270$0f57eb04@xphjb> >>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >>reply-type=original >> >>According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the h is still silent in >>"vehicle" and "honor", but it is still spoken in historical. >> >>If you ever question any pronunciation, the ultimate source is the Oxford >>English Dictionary. That has every word used in the English language, >>from >>its beginnings through each change of use. It is also like 18-20 HUGE >>volumes big. Most libraries carry them. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

REO Speedwagon will be performing at Reading's Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Sat, Oct 27, 2007 08:00 PM. The Sovereign Performing Arts Center is the former Rajah Theater (on N. 6th St), now refurbished and spruced up. Maybe it's a good excuse to come to Reading to visit, take in the concert and do some family research all in the same trip! ~Karen from Berks >Hi! > > REO Speedwagon was one of my favorite music groups > from the 70's & 80's.If memory serves they were > originally from Champaign,IL. Before they got famous > they used to be the bar band for the college circuit. >I saw them play once while I was in college. Very >cool! > >Pam Drake in IN.

Welcome Pam!! Are you one of our new members, or have you been with us for a while? I don't remember seeing a post from you before this. So WELCOME if you are new, and WELCOME to the take if you have been lurking :o) We all lurk sometimes :o) Especially when we are very, very busy :o) OH, and Sheila, thanks for your compliment on my writing. I hope my daughter will find it a treasure someday :o) Lynn ----- Original Message ----- From: Pam Drake To: PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:50 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] REO Speedwagon Hi! REO Speedwagon was one of my favorite music groups from the 70's & 80's.If memory serves they were originally from Champaign,IL. Before they got famous they used to be the bar band for the college circuit. I saw them play once while I was in college. Very cool! Pam Drake in IN. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If you want to read an facinating book, have a go at "The Professor and the Madman: -[ A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the-Making of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' ]" by Simon Winchester, published by HarperColllins. It's welldone, facinating insight to the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. ~Karen from Berks >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:33:08 -0400 >From: "Judy Brannon" <stampingal@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] 'istorical >To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <003401c7eb12$b05de270$0f57eb04@xphjb> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >reply-type=original > >According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the h is still silent in >"vehicle" and "honor", but it is still spoken in historical. > >If you ever question any pronunciation, the ultimate source is the Oxford >English Dictionary. That has every word used in the English language, from >its beginnings through each change of use. It is also like 18-20 HUGE >volumes big. Most libraries carry them.

Anyone need the tombstone pic of Stefan Kupress? Dates look like b. December 13, 1812 d. May 17, 1915? Lynn

Hi Lynn! Yes,I'm new to the list. I thought I might find some quick & easy recipes here. I especially like the kind that have 5 ingridients or less. Thanks for writing! Pam Drake in IN. > --- Lynn Vondran <lynnvondran@att.net> wrote: > > > Welcome Pam!! Are you one of our new members, or > > have you been with us for a while? I don't > remember > > seeing a post from you before this. > > So WELCOME if you are new, and WELCOME to the take > > if you have been lurking :o) We all lurk > sometimes > > :o) Especially when we are very, very busy :o) > > OH, and Sheila, thanks for your compliment on my > > writing. I hope my daughter will find it a > treasure > > someday :o) > > Lynn

I have a picture of Barbara R. Donley b. 1863 d. 1935 Anyone need this surname? Lynn

Is anyone researching this line? I have some pictures of tombstones from I believe St. Pete's Catholic Cemetery, or Holy Trinity's Catholic Cemetery. I will find out which cemetery I was at when I took these. I believe it was St. Pete's. I took pictures of the wrong surname, and will send these to whomever they will benefit in doing their family research. Let me know as soon as possible. If no one on the list, then I will go to message boards and ask. Thanks, Lynn PS I've had these in my desk for a few years :o(

Is that where you have to move the marbles into different sections of a tray-like game board? If so, they play it at Mike's family's get-togethers, and will probably be playing it on Monday. I'm not sure if I have the correct game or not. It could be pretty stones they use in the game they play. I've never been able to get close enough to the picnic table to watch, because of fabric softeners on their clothing. Is that the game, though, John? :o) Lynn John wrote: has anyone written about the game called AGGRAVATION ? lots of pa dutchers in lancaster county made boards that would accommodate 4-6 players. marbles are used. store bought editions are available.

Hi Cathy and All, This is from the back of the DVD by BBC Video Jane Austin's MANSFIELD PARK "True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished, remastered BBC production of Jane Austin's celebrated novel MANSFIELD PARK. Set in 18th century England, Jane Austen's tale of virtue and vice, tells of young and impoverished Fanny Price [she is the reason I love to watch this_her quiet personality] who arrives at the elegant country estate of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, Fanny begins her long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives who believe wealth automatically means quality. When Fanny finally wins the respect of her snobish relatives, she incurs the displeasure of her uncle by rejecting the handsome philanderer Henry Crawford because she has fallen in love with Edmund." [Besides, Henry is so fake, and superficial, he is one reason I don't watch it MUCH. I usually watch all the others, and maybe watch NORTHANGER ABBEY, once a year_that one is a very dark sort of plot.] MANSFIELD PARK is a 1986, 312 minute movie, in color. :o) Lynn Cathy wrote: "Mansfield Park", Lynn your going to have to tell me more, because I don't think I've ever seen or heard of that one?! What year did it come out & what's the plot?

has anyone written about the game called AGGRAVATION ? lots of pa dutchers in lancaster county made boards that would accommodate 4-6 players. marbles are used. store bought editions are available. SHAZAM--- John & Joyce Keiper >From the "situation room", Bedford, Penna. 15522 at: coventry cottage

That's good to know, Judy. The "rule" says that one uses the article "a" before consonants and the article "an" before vowels. Is "h" a vowel or a consonant? Which is correct: "a historical event" or "an historical event"? Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Brannon" <stampingal@earthlink.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] 'istorical > According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the h is still silent in > "vehicle" and "honor", but it is still spoken in historical. > > If you ever question any pronunciation, the ultimate source is the Oxford > English Dictionary. That has every word used in the English language, > from > its beginnings through each change of use. It is also like 18-20 HUGE > volumes big. Most libraries carry them.

Hi all, I'm catching the talk on playing cards. I could never catch on to Rook either. But here are two other card games that are alot of fun to play. Have you heard of Phase 10? this is for two to six players. I don't have the directions in front of me, but you may be able to have more than six players. And then there is Racko. Racko is for two,three, or four players. Both are alot of fun to play. And easier to learn than Rook. :) I'll bring them next time we have cookies and milk at Rick's kitchen table. :) Kathy L. Piqua, Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Berkheiser" <reberkheiser@earthlink.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > Whew! Rook is too complicated for me. I'm one of those people who could > never figure out Eucre. > > Rick B > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: marysaerie > To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:27 PM > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > >

I simply LOVE phase 10. When my oldest son was about in kindergarten I would make him play that game with me over and over again!!! I think he got pretty tired of it, but he played anyhow!!!! If I didn`t have to get back to sewing I would sit at Rick`s table right now and get a game started!!!! ~~~Linda~~~

Thanks, Judy!!! I'm headed that way sometime this evening. I'm going to pick up a pack :o) Your answer was just in time, hope you can play with just two players? Lynn Judy wrote: They are sold at Target and WalMart. They are turquoise with a black crow on them.

So you need more than two players? Thanks! Lynn Kathy wrote: My husband and I used to love to play Rook - the easier version. Both of us lived in the Pittsburgh area all of our lives until we relocated to Virginia for a short time after college. Neither my husband nor I ever heard of Rook before our move. Our now dear friends taught us how to play. We would play at least one night every weekend. Tried to interest our kids in the game but they never really liked playing it.