Sorry about all these typos tonight. Guess I'm trying to hurry and chime in before I get busy around here. :o) Lynn

That figures!!! 1AM AGAIN! Oh boy, I hope no one else is outside. Let me take that back, I hope EVERYone else is outside, and NOT just me, again :o) Thanks, Linda! :o) Lynn Linda wrote: My sister said that tonight (actually tomorrow morning at 1:00) will be the best time to see the showers in the sky!!!

Mary!! What a wonderful story of down on the farm!!!!!!! And, I sat here laughing at your discription of the cats reactions and personalities! Loved the names you were going to call them if they misbehaved, too !!!!! I always wanted to live in a farm, but as you all know, I wouldn't have made it on a farm where you had to butcher animals. But, I LOVE the rest of farm life, and was always able to experience just a little bit of it down on "Grammom" and "Grampop" Rothenberger's farm near Jacksonwald/Exeter Township area. So, September 1st is your birthday!!! It's our daughter's, also!!! :o) Lynn Mary wrote of her life on the farm, and her pets!!! LOL!!!!!!

Richard, what a beautiful tribute to St. Lawrence! Has anyone heard of The Derwenwater Lights" - a similar story. Sir James Radclyffe was executed for his involvement in The Jacobite Rebellion in England/Scotland and when he was being carried away to be buried, The Aurora Borealis shone so brightly that people took it as a sign from God that he had been martyred. They were named "The Derwenwater Lights", and on the anniversary of his execution they shone for many years afterwards, and the river at Dilston Castle, part of The Derwentwater Estate, ran red on that day for many years to follow. There are some beautiful ballads about him, one called "Derwenwater's Farewell". He ties in to my Ratliff/Ratcliff family, so I have been researching the history of the name. Sheila in WV --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.

Don.....I am so happy that you were not in the monsoon area. I guess I have never thought about monsoons in Arizona! And the free food sounds wonderful - but more so that your church gives away free food on Fridays!! Praise God that you and your members have the heart and spirit to help other people. I am gathering from the many posts that I have read on the PADutch-Life Board that we are a group of very compassionate souls. I can just feel that good will just oozing through the billions of miles of internet connections. This is a special group! Would you like to share more about your church? I would like to know more about it. Sheila in WV --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.

Thanks, Rick!!! Yes, the heavens are aMAZing, aren't they!!!! I remember the last time I went out front to see the Northern Lights. It was about 1AM, and Lindsey's friends had driven by, but I didn't know it was them. I went out again, looked up, and they drove by again. The next thing I know is they are knocking on my front door and asked me if I was okay :o) LOL!!!! They were laughing so hard, because I guess I did look awful funny out there in the middle of South Second Street, looking up :o) I'm going out to check on some meteor showers this month. Is there any particular night they are to be the most visible? Watch one of her friends pass me again, while star gazing!!!! I shoudl really go to Sam Lewis Park in York County, up on the hilltop, where they use to have the Star Gazer's Club meet now and then. Certain ones brought they high powered telescopes and allowed the people who attended to look through at the different stars, or clusters of stars and planets, that they focused on. It's VERY dark up there, no street lights or anything, except a little light at a building a bit away from the hilltop. Has anyone else ever been there? :o) Lynn Rick gave the heads up on the August sky!!!

My sister said that tonight (actually tomorrow morning at 1:00) will be the best time to see the showers in the sky!!! ~~~Linda~~~

Sheila, we were not affected by the bad weather. We are in our monsoon season and have had plenty of rain. Tucson, on the other hand, which is about a 75 mile drive from here, has had extensive damage, flooding, and power outages. We did have some damage to our church, but it does look like it will be easy to repair. When we picked all those apples, I had only canned corn and green beans, and a lot less than we had in apples. It is more expensive to can your own fruits and vegetables than buy the ones already canned, but home-canned food is much better tasting and more healthy. The year we did the apples we also did about 40 pounds of peaches. I think our daughters got most of them. My wife does not eat a lot of vegetables, but I do. For the last three years I have been pastor of a small church that distributes food every Friday. I get all the fresh vegetables and fruits I can use in a weeks time, so I don't worry about canning much now. The nice thing too, is that the food is free. Don

I am absolutely jealous!!!!! So, it's peach season, is it? Well, on my travels, I will have to stop at Flinchbaugh's, in Eastern York County, to see what they have!!! That sounds sooooooo good!!!! Recipe for your jam, please? If it's not a family secret :O) Thanks! Lynn Anna wrote: Today three of my sisters went with me to a peach orchard where we picked and picked up from the ground, a bushel of peaches in just 25 minutes.and there were so many to be had! Jam and pies tomorrow!

Hey Don in Arizona....have you been affected by that bad weather that hit there the last few days...saw about in on CNN? And your story about picking all those apples and having to prepare them sounds overwhelming. You can tell that I have been away from the wood stove for tooooo long!! When we lived on our farm in the 1960's my mama canned everything...jams, jellies, the works. One time, someone came in stole all of her blackberry jam - that's all they took! She still talks about it to this day. She wondered why they only took the blackberry jam. It was the blackberry burgler! We kept looking for blackberry stains on the clothes of our neighbors, etc. and nary a one of them had a stain...so must have been somebody that had heard how good her jams were! That ended my blackberry jam cake baking for that season. And those peaches...ummmm, so good! Does anybody have a good recipe for peach kuchen? Wondering if Ontelauntee (spelling) Orchards is still in Berks County. We used to buy a lot of fruit there. Sheila in WV --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.

Well, Karen!!!! Happy 49th birthday on the 20th!!! I almost missed that and with everything that I believe will be going on this week, I didn't want to miss saying it!! HAPPY BRITHDAY COMING UP SOON!!!!!!! :o) Hmmmmmm, seems to me someone else's birthday is coming up, but I changed my date book around and can't find it. Hope it's none of you and I miss your birthday!!!! I'm terrible at remembering all the birthdays, but try :o) Lynn PS And you aren't OLD, we just get OLDER_as in I am OLDER than you, by about 4 3/4 years :o) We are only as old as we feel. Look at Richard, puttin' on his golf spikes and ridin' high on that thar allie-gator :o) LOL!!!! Hope I can do that at 90!!!!! Yippee-kei-yei, or however you spell it. Karen wrote: Would you like to know what made me feel OLD? (you can laugh, I'm turning 49 on the 20th) One day I spent the afternoon at the Berks Historical Society Library looking through the microfilm of Mt. Aetna St John's records in their archives. I suddenly came across my name (I was baptized at St. John's). I came home that day, called my mother and told her that I was so old that I appear in the Historical Society's Archives. Mom (at 75yo) had a good laugh at that.

Yup, that's exactly how Morris does it, too :o) Yes, all these stories of our pets are wonderful, and it surely does sound like they ALL have GREAT homes, with people who love them dearly :o) Thanks, Richard! :o) Lynn Richard Emlin Reed wrote: Thanks for a great story. I loved it UNCONDITIONALLY. Poor Morris, I can almost see the "wha' hoppen" look on his face. Lilliput always looks around to make sure she has enough room to roll. And I can always tell when she's going to do one. She quickens her pace; takes short steps; makes a half turn; looks up; and down she goes. What a thrill it must have been to see Morris after nine months. And all those others. Full house is right. Great story!

There are lots of wide-open spaces with no street lights in Arizona also. Don

Hey, now there's a thought for my old golf spikes!!! Only they are dated back to the 1970s. Never thought of that! I'll give them to whomever needs them in Florida, to round up those gators and crocs :o) Do you have crocs in Florida, or are they living somewhere else in the world? :o) Lynn Richard wrote: Yeahhhhh! Using my golf spikes for spurs.

It sounds as if it is going to be a wonderful time to get outside and view the Heavens in all their glory! The lights certainly do have a way of putting a shade on this beauty of nature. When we were living in Washington state in the Pugent Sound area of Seattle, we were out in the country, and the skies were absolutely breathtaking. We saw the Milky Way for the first time in many years, and we could locate so many of the other stars that we had not been able to see in areas that were populated. I remember the one Comet that we saw about 2000, and it was a memorable event! I would love to be able to visit "Big Sky Montana" and view them there. We do have Green Bank Observatory here in WV, but I have not been there for many years. Has anyone been there? Sooooo, let's all go outside about 1:00 a.m. and look up and up and up. I hope it will be a clear night here! We can tell later what we have seen, or not seen. Richard, what are the tears you spoke of? As Richard Reed said....your knowledge of the celestial beings is amazing!! Did he say, "I'm astronamished"? Amazing choice of words Herr Reed! Sheila in WV --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.

That's a neat one. :o) Lynn Rick submitted the poem about researchers being the chosen ones of the family to pass on the story.

Picking peaches and apples is fun. A few years ago my wife and I decided to go to one of the apple orchards not far from where we live to pick some apples. they provide five gallon buckets to put the apples in, and after we filled two buckets my wife asked me to go get two more buckets.. We filled them and she decided she wanted two more. I told her I would get one more and that was all. We planned on canning some, making some apple jelly and apple sauce, dehydrating some to take on our travels, and freezing some. When we got to the scales she discovered we had picket 85 pounds of apples. That was a real challenge for me as I do most of the cooking at home, and do all the canning. Needless to say, I had a full week of work. Don in AZ

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Today three of my sisters went with me to a peach orchard where we picked and picked up from the ground, a bushel of peaches in just 25 minutes.and there were so many to be had! Jam and pies tomorrow!

OK! I just knew you would want to read this one! Smiles, Anna -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of twerppy@aol.com Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:51 PM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Abe Lincoln book Put me down, Anna.? Connie Williams? 24 E. Tolna Road, Shrewsbury, PA? 17361 -----Original Message----- From: Del Bristol <bristol@wcnet.org> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:08 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Abe Lincoln book I have begun reading an historical novel about Abe Lincoln. The author, Richard Slotkin, has written several non-fiction books of an historical nature, so I trust his research. This book is different in that it re-creates Lincoln's growing years rather than his political career and the Civil War era. "."Abe" draws deeply on historical scholarship, but it is not biography. Instead, it is a vivid, persuasive re-creation of the life as young Lincoln might have lived it, and of the people, scenes, and influences that helped produce the character and conscience of the man often called the greatest of all Americans." This book is 450 pages in length and I have only begun reading it, and three other books rest on my night stand that I have begun. Sometimes Sherlock Holmes beckons to me, at other times history is my interest.much like using the remote, huh? If you want to be next in line in our PAD Reading Club, let me know and I'll send this book to you. For those of you new to this list, we offer books to fellow members and send them without cost. When you have finished the book, ask who was next on the reading list and send it media rate (less expensive). Gosh, it is gorgeous outside today. I have to bathe the dogs, do some lawn work, begin the laundry.and read under the maple tree. Life is good. Smiles, Anna * P.S. Fort Wayne, Indiana, has a Lincoln museum which is a must-see for history buffs. Lincoln Life Ins. was begun in the late 1800s. They contacted Robert Lincoln asking permission to use his father's likeness and name for their company and he permitted the usage. They began assembling Lincoln memorabilia and later opened a museum in their corporate offices, if I recall correctly. The museum outgrew the facility so they constructed a building elsewhere in Fort Wayne. I have been to the corporate location and plan to go to the new site. Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, has Lincoln's chair and some other items from his assassination. Also, the Fort Wayne library is a genealogical site and one that recently reopened as a much enlarged facility. Check out their websites: <http://www.thelincolnmuseum.org/> www.thelincolnmuseum.org and www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html and www.hfmgv.org <http://www.hfmgv.org/> . * o o ------------------------------- 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 ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------- 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