Garage Saling

On Saturday, my friend & I traveled to Fairholme Hutterite Colony, just over an hour away, to attend their annual  garage/bake sale. In between rain showers, we both managed to find some Hutterite dresses which we plan to wear sometime. I also bought a couple of frozen chickens. We enjoyed lunch in the dining room & then strolled through beautiful flowers beds.

Trip to Pennsylvania

Albert & I  traveled to Pennsylvania August 21 - 26 to attend MDS Leadership Training. The above pictures  are of the MCC Welcome Center where we stayed. There were 7 Canadians & 13 Americans attending the training. It was 2 1/2 days of very informative sessions about the purpose of MDS, how to respond & be helpful to the clients that MDS serves & how each role works together to fulfill the MDS mission statement. We are hoping to go on another assignment this coming winter.

Hershey, PA.

We are visiting Lancaster Country & friends took us to Hershey, PA. to visit the Hershey Chocolate Factory. We went on the trolley tour which gave us alot of history about the city of Hershey. On Chocolate Street, the street lights look like Hershey Kisses.





At Hershey's Chocolate World, there are many things to do like make your own chocolate bar, tour of how the Hershey's Chocolate is made & also a huge theme park.


This is the mansion that Mr. Hershey & his wife lived in after he made a fortune with his chocolate. He also built a school which was originally for orphans which is still in operation today & accepts children from families with lower incomes. There is also a large teaching hospital in Hershey.

And So Life Continues.

This poor blog has been just totally neglected this past week and a half. Since returning home from my adventurous holiday, life has been the usual summer whirlwind of activities. Here is a short run-down of what I've been doing.
Got home the evening of July 19 after 2 weeks & 1 day away & driving 5300 Kms.
Have canned 14 pints of dilled beans & 16 pints of bread & butter pickles. Hope to do some relish this week.
Went to visit my mom at MacGregor to tell her about my trip & show pictures of family.
Was at the Morris Stampede for 3 days sitting at the Children's Camps International booth promoting the Harvest for Kids.
Went camping for 5 days to Turtle River State Park, 20 miles west of Grand Forks.
Worked on a quilt for a Christmas gift.
Have been cleaning & organizing closets & cupboards.
Had our 2 grandsons from Winnipeg here for a few days.
Took part in a few activities in the Harvest Festival this past weekend.
Tomorrow I start cooking harvest meals for Chris's tiling crew.
And so it goes.
Will try to update more frequently.

Wordless Wednesday - My Flower Garden

Lois & Lillian's Most Wonderful Adventure

Ten highlights of our trip to Ontario July 4 - 19, 2010. These are listed in a random order & may include embellishments!

1. The nice man at the Emerson border who asked where we were going & Lois answered "To Ontario via the US route.: He then asked what our purpose was in Ontario & Lois answered "To visit elderly relatives." His next question was " Do you ladies have a GPS?"

2.Lois refreshed her knowledge of the Low German Language when I shared my extensive repertoire of the language.

3. A statement each of us made several times - " Stop making me laugh! I'm driving & there isn't a rest stop for miles!"

4. Lois to Samantha - the GPS - " What do you mean by turn left, turn right, turn left, recalculating. Oh, be quiet!!"

5. We each have addictions that begged attention.
Lois - J.C. Penny's, Best Buy, Bath & Body
Me - Starbucks, Quilt Shops, Bath & Body

6. 60 something year olds can get away with many things including looking weak & feeble close to hotel stairs so when some helpful man comes along, he has no choice but to offer to to carry our suitcases.

7. When it came to dragging our baggage in & out of hotels, we acknowledged that we missed our "schleppers" Fortunately, we had to leave our husbands at home to work to pay for our trip!
8. Diana's Garden & Helen's garden.

9. Mel's tour bus stopping in a "No Stopping" zone while we jumped out & ran - as fast as 2 60 something year olds can run, both with bad knees - so that we could quickly snap a few pictures of Niagara Falls.
10. The purpose & absolute highlight was connecting with aunts, uncles, cousins & extended family, many that we had not seen or had contact with for many years. We both came home with a renewed sense of family & to strengthen our contacts & to search for cousins we haven't heard from for a long time.