The quiet domestic life — the excitement of urban life— a grueling mountain hike— it's not often I get to experience it all in one weekend. Pizza Loaves I spent Saturday morning making one of my favorite recipes, Peppery Pizza Loaves. Mom has a scrapbook cookbook with the recipe clipped from an old issue of Quick Cooking. You can get the recipe from Taste of Home here. The pizza loaves are quick, delicious, and freeze well. I also made a couple of Frosty Chocolate Pies (pie recipe here). … [Read more...] about Pizza, Pottery Works, and Puffing up the Mountain!
Packing at Blessings of Hope
"Let's go volunteer at Blessings of Hope!" My sister Brenda is the family planner (on the left in the above photo) and that's how 19 family members, mostly children, ended up bagging flour together on a Wednesday afternoon earlier this summer. It was great thing to do together as a family, and a fun way to support a local ministry doing an astonishing work. Blessings of Hope has been in my neighborhood for several years, and for a long time I thought it was a food pantry. Blessings of Hope, I … [Read more...] about Packing at Blessings of Hope
The Bookworm Frolic
I love to read, but with getting my blog started and going to Alaska, I haven't gone to the library often or read much this summer. That's going to change now, since I went to the Bookworm Frolic Book Sale tonight. The Bookworm Frolic is a fundraiser for the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. The books are collected throughout the year (people donate them) and then the book sale is held outside under a huge tent every August. Books are arranged on tables and grouped according to … [Read more...] about The Bookworm Frolic
Launching Penny Letters
You know you've had a taxing weekend when you unwind by watching a documentary on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was really going to launch my blog this weekend. But then the social obligations started piling up. The eight-hour prayer seminar at church. A friend inviting me to try out her new hot tub. Another friend inviting me to church, with a speaker who told a heartbreaking story of losing his entire family in a flash flood. This was followed by a Sunday lunch invite that took up … [Read more...] about Launching Penny Letters
Alaska Summer 2019
This post is mainly photos from a trip to Alaska I took earlier this summer. I helped at a mission base in Healy for two weeks, in the interior of Alaska. Apparently Alaska is large enough to have an "interior" like the continents of Africa and Australia. These photos were taken during our time off. (My job was primarily cooking, which looks the same in Alaska as it does in Pennsylvania. The most exotic thing we cooked was ground moose, which looks and tastes just like ground beef). What … [Read more...] about Alaska Summer 2019