Monday Memories – Dec 8, 2025 Edition

(IDK about you, but I really miss those big shredded wheat biscuits! My mom used to pour boiling water on them, let the soak for a couple of minutes, pour the water off and mix butter and sugar in the hot cereal, then add milk…AMAZING childhood breakfast memories!)

GUEST POST from Don – What KIDS Should Know

I WISH KIDS KNEW… I’ve been asking around.  “What stuff do you wish that children knew?”  The variety and the intelligence of the following list lifted me.  I’m hoping it lifts you, too.  MORE…I’m hoping that if you are a parent you will adopt a few and train your children to know important things other children don’t.  (Not an exhaustive …
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GUEST POST from Don – 39 Seconds

39 SECONDS [I have no degree in nutrition.]   Life patterns matter.  One study suggests that if I don’t eat the 17 McCheesburgers this year I will live 39 seconds longer (unless I’m starving to death). I like cheeseburgers … a lot!  Especially when I have the hangrys.  I make poor decisions when hangry.  Actually, I have difficulty thinking beyond …
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VIDEO: Oct 11, 2024 Vlog – An Amish Produce Auction

This was a gorgeous day, so we went out for a little while before J&E arrived. One of the places we stopped was a nearby Amish-owned store and deli that was really busy…but their produce displays out front were gorgeous! Then we noticed that the produce auction had just started down the road. Even though …
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GUEST POST from Don: Exit Plans, pt III

EXIT PLANS (Part III) Psalms 55:6-8 NIV says:  “I said, ‘Oh that I had the wings of a dove!  I would fly away and be at rest – I would flee far away and stay in the desert.  Selah.  I would hurry to my place of shelter, and from the tempest and storm.’ “ So many issues!  How to prepare …
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