Why Post This?

I dunno. These are what I took to the Birthday Fellowship at church last night.

Brownies made from my sister-in-law's recipe. Really good. This picture doesn't show it, but what looks white is actually light green because I did the mint version. Got lots of compliments on these.



Mini tuna bundles. Made them smaller than usual. (This is a huge platter tho, so they are a bit bigger than the picture might make you think.)



This is a Mock Apple Pie--no apples, just zucchini, but people have a hard time believing it.

Mourning the Loss of Summer

Just wanted to throw in a few pictures to remind myself of the "Summer that Wasn't". Things just didn't grow well this year, so we really appreciate what did grow..

Today is the last day of August. At 8:30 this morning, it was still in the 30's. There's something not quite right here...

Hammond Reunion

We recently had a great time at a family reunion downstate. I have lots of pictures, but will only post a few because I don't much like putting picutres of children on my public blog.

Some of my kids:

My husband's siblings: (If Dale were in this picture, you would be surprised at the difference in his height)

Missions Fair

It's time I get caught up with my blogging. We recently had a Missions Fair at church where the ladies of the Ladies Missionary Fellowship made displays to remind people of some special missionaries. We also had a potluck with as many foreign foods as possible. There were also foods particular to the place of the mission on some of the displays.

This first picture represents the Segurados to Spain. Of course, you can't hear it, but there was Spanish guitar music playing softly behind the display board.



This table represents the Blocks who work with Bibles International.


This table represents the Martinez' to the Lakota Indians in South Dakota.


This table represents the Bartz' in Toronto, Ontario.

Everyone really seemed to enjoy this Missions Fair and we heard suggestions that we should make this an annual event.

I'm behind...again

Hopefully will post yet this week... Keep checking

Catching Up

We had a nice church picnic...even though it did rain We were all very thankful that we had the pavilion reserved for us.



A very dear friend was able to be there for it. What a blessing!


Tamara's family was here for a nice visit, too. We went up to see the lighthouse on Mission Point.



We've had a very cool summer, if one could even call it summer. It's been more like the summer that wasn't. Nevertheless, a few things are growing nicely.

The raspberries have done very well this year.

And the green beans are just starting.

It's been very busy, but most of it not blog-worthy. Most of you have already heard my grumbling about it anyway. LOL.