Thank you. We learned today that Evelyn has terminal cancer with a possibility of 2 to 6 months ahead for her. She will have radiation to shrink the tumors to allow her to breathe better. One year ago her lungs were clear. This has been a rugged day for all of us. Anna/Ohio -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Vondran Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:24 PM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Body Parts Praying right with you Anna!!!! I was trying that song, "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes" :o) Lynn Anna wrote: Oh, golly...try singing that song...the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, the arm bone's connected to the elbow bone...all in PAD! I just completed two batches of red raspberry jelly. That crimson color is what I would like my next car to be, but no, auto makers do not think in womanly fashion. I also visited my sister in the local hospital; she is awaiting a biopsy in the morning to learn what is causing her health woes. It may be all mold related. It is too soon to know, we pray for her recovery. ------------------------------- 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

Oh, lots of PA Dutch in Central PA eat mush (corn meal). It's very easy to make, but I haven't done it in many years... After we started eating grits, I made them frequently...Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy" <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Grits/mush > > --- Jean wrote: > >> Well, after it cools and hardens, you slice it and fry it like mush! >> Served with syrup and of course, bacon and eggs... > ************************ > > Jean, > > You are speaking of cold grits, right? That sounds like a great idea! > I bet the only difference would be that mush is yellow (at least the > mush I've had) and grits are white. Excellent idea! > > The only place I have ever seen mush is in the Princeton, WV area and > they may not have it now. We use to have it at my aunts. > > tracy > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.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 >

So send the story to her family some time -- they will appreciate a belly laugh about her. Smiles, Anna -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Vondran Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:40 AM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Birthday Customs (was Laurel Mountains) I never heard of one to grow on regarding the candles on the cake!! That's a new one to me! On my birthday, Mom always made me either a Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake, with Chocolate Icing, or a Red Velvet Cake, with White, or Cooked Icing. The neighbor girl, who was very little at the time, put her hand in the middle of the cake that Mom had cooling outside on top of the milkbox, and she grabbed a HUGE chunk of my birthday cake, and ate it. I couldn't eat any Red Velvet cake for a while after I had a piece of my birthday cake, even though Mom filled in the space where her hand was with icing. The reason I couldn't eat any of that for a while was because I am the one who got the little girl's fingernail that broke off when she did the dasteredly deed :o( I've long wanted to get in touch with her and ask her if she ever remembered that, but, in collecting my obituaries from the Reading Eagle, I found that she had passed away at the young age of 46, just last week :o( I wanted so much to tease her about this someday. As for the candles, Mom started decreasing the amount of candles once I reached a certain age...she didn't want the icing to melt :o) LOL!!!! But, as Rick said, I have long earlobes :o) NAH!!!!!!! Lynn Debra wrote: snip snip > On the ear lobe thing--I remember it now that you all mention it, but it > was something I had completely forgotten about.? We always did "one to > grow on"--same as the candles on the cake.? I always hated it! ------------------------------- 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

A good friend of our family has to avoid caffeine and she drinks a coffee substitute called Postum, which is made from wheat.? I've seen it on the shelves but she's the only person I know who drinks it.? I think it looks gross, but then coffee itself makes me gag, so I'm probably a bad judge in this category. --Debra -----Original Message----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 7:04 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Okra/Coffee???? In a message dated 7/26/2007 6:53:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, lynnvondran@att.net writes: Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a non-caffeinated substitute for coffee And here I always thought that was Chickory! Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- 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.

In a message dated 7/26/2007 6:53:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, lynnvondran@att.net writes: Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a non-caffeinated substitute for coffee And here I always thought that was Chickory! Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Oops, that didn't work out right. Let's try again: http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/coffee.htm Lynn Lynn wrote: > Confederate Coffee Substitutes: Articles from Civil War Newspapers > >>From that same site!!! Very interesting!!!! > Thanks Joan!

Confederate Coffee Substitutes: Articles from Civil War Newspapers >From that same site!!! Very interesting!!!! Thanks Joan! Lynn

>From what Joan just gave us, I found this really interesting: Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a non-caffeinated substitute for coffee Joan wrote: > Wikipedia to the rescue again: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbo

In a message dated 7/26/2007 6:17:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, dreinhold1@comcast.net writes: Lynn et al, Most gumbo's do not contain okra. Wikipedia to the rescue again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbo Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Thanks, Daniel!!!! Daniel wrote: > Lynn et al, Most gumbo's do not contain okra. Lynn wrote: >> Me neither, after having it boiled with my mixed vegetables. >> They sell it at the little Mennonite store pickled. Now that some of you >> have said you liked it that way, I MIGHT try it. It depends on how much >> it >> costs. I see the breaded okra all the time at the stores. So, that is >> good??? I'm to scared to try it again_I don't like to waste food, and >> I'm >> sure no one around here likes it, though I should ask, then maybe, if I >> don't like it, I can give it to them :o) >> Joan wrote: >>> Right, and the gooey substance in okra serves as the thickening agent in >>> gumbo. That makes okra less gross and slimey when it is in gumbo and I'm >>> told >>> the same is true of fried okra but I've never been brave enough to try >>> it >>> that >>> way. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Anna-just wanted to let you know that my thoughts and prayers are also with you. Becky Del Bristol <bristol@wcnet.org> wrote: Thank you. We learned today that Evelyn has terminal cancer with a possibility of 2 to 6 months ahead for her. She will have radiation to shrink the tumors to allow her to breathe better. One year ago her lungs were clear. This has been a rugged day for all of us. Anna/Ohio -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lynn Vondran Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:24 PM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Body Parts Praying right with you Anna!!!! I was trying that song, "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes" :o) Lynn Anna wrote: Oh, golly...try singing that song...the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, the arm bone's connected to the elbow bone...all in PAD! I just completed two batches of red raspberry jelly. That crimson color is what I would like my next car to be, but no, auto makers do not think in womanly fashion. I also visited my sister in the local hospital; she is awaiting a biopsy in the morning to learn what is causing her health woes. It may be all mold related. It is too soon to know, we pray for her recovery. ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.

Yeah--since they were a border state during the war, they were divided in their sympathies.? You won't find much of this in Western Maryland since they're so removed from the rest of the state, or in the DC metro area where a lot of the residents are not natives.? The other state where this seems to be prevalent is Missouri--which on a map doesn't seem to be that Southern, but it stems from sympathies during the war. Pennsylvania can fit into either the Northeast or the Mid-Atlantic, which is kind of odd since we don't border the Atlantic, but I don't think many Marylanders would consider themselves part of the Northeast. State lines don't often agree with how people feel or what they consider themselves to be part of. In the 1780's settlers in my part of the state were feeling?ignored by the colonial government (some things never change!) and tried to "secede" from the rest of Pennsylvania and form a new colony called Westsylvania, that also would've included Western Maryland, what is now West Virginia, some of Virginia and part of Kentucky.? That's a geographical area that makes sense as a region--it would be interesting to know how that would've turned out. New England is just six states--Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut. --Debra -----Original Message----- From: Tracy <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 5:15 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Grits/Maryland/PA --- Debra wrote: > Well, a lot of Marylanders consider themselves to be Southerners.? > Not so much in Western Maryland, which, much like Western > Pennsylvania, doesn't have a lot in common with the rest of its > state. ****************** Wow, I would never have imagined that. I would have thought they would be "northerners" or "new englanders". I am not a geography whiz. I'm lucky to be able to pick the US of A out on an atlas. But I can read a map! Geography was one subject I was never taught in school. tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ------------------------------- 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.

Lynn et al, Most gumbo's do not contain okra. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] More Southern stuff/okra > Me neither, after having it boiled with my mixed vegetables. > They sell it at the little Mennonite store pickled. Now that some of you > have said you liked it that way, I MIGHT try it. It depends on how much > it > costs. I see the breaded okra all the time at the stores. So, that is > good??? I'm to scared to try it again_I don't like to waste food, and I'm > sure no one around here likes it, though I should ask, then maybe, if I > don't like it, I can give it to them :o) > Lynn > > Joan wrote: >> Right, and the gooey substance in okra serves as the thickening agent in >> gumbo. That makes okra less gross and slimey when it is in gumbo and I'm >> told >> the same is true of fried okra but I've never been brave enough to try it >> that >> way. > > > ------------------------------- > 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

LOL!!!!!! Just like today everyone saying O.S.H.A. or whatever the initials are for that with a short "o" sound, and I've always said it with a long "o" sound. It's that safety for working people organization. It came up a lot in my conversations with the power company and the mason. How do you all say that? Lynn Tracy wrote: okra. > The other looks like someone spelled killer whale incorrectly. ;-)

Me neither, after having it boiled with my mixed vegetables. They sell it at the little Mennonite store pickled. Now that some of you have said you liked it that way, I MIGHT try it. It depends on how much it costs. I see the breaded okra all the time at the stores. So, that is good??? I'm to scared to try it again_I don't like to waste food, and I'm sure no one around here likes it, though I should ask, then maybe, if I don't like it, I can give it to them :o) Lynn Joan wrote: > Right, and the gooey substance in okra serves as the thickening agent in > gumbo. That makes okra less gross and slimey when it is in gumbo and I'm > told > the same is true of fried okra but I've never been brave enough to try it > that > way.

LOL!!!!!! Actually they are Mid-Atlanticers :o) Lynn Tracy wrote: > Wow, I would never have imagined that. I would have thought they would > be "northerners" or "new englanders". I am not a geography whiz. I'm > lucky to be able to pick the US of A out on an atlas. But I can read a > map! Geography was one subject I was never taught in school.

In a message dated 7/26/2007 5:08:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, better_than_good@yahoo.com writes: Did you know that gumbo is not gumbo if there is no okra in it? tracy ---- Right, and the gooey substance in okra serves as the thickening agent in gumbo. That makes okra less gross and slimey when it is in gumbo and I'm told the same is true of fried okra but I've never been brave enough to try it that way. Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Learn something new everyday!!!! I didn't know that! Okay, the spell check lets both spellings go by. How does one spell ocra, okra? Lynn Tracy wrote: > Did you know that gumbo is not gumbo if there is no okra in it?

Oh, Poindexter was my favorite in the Barbie Game!!!!! I never wanted Ken, who was too stuffed shirted :o) Lynn Tracy wrote: You know, the ones that > were "losers", "poindexters" and whatnots.

Yes, it's on the grocer's shelves at Redner's as far as I know, or WalMart, because I bought some not too, too long ago :o) Lynn Joan wrote: > Guess what? It is STILL available! > > http://www.homestatfarm.com/history_maypo.php