Rundown
Last week we showed Food, Inc. to the Pilgrim students. It's a documentary which was released on DVD on November 3. Showing this movie was the introduction to the current events study for the month: Problems in the American Food Supply.
The message seemed to resonate with the students. I'm keeping a list of all those who individually asked me if they could borrow it to show to their family at home. I sent it home with Marvin on Friday.
Coming up next is a memo to students and parents about the food production class that is being offered next semester. I am impressed that producing your own food is the most elegant and do-able way to avoid many of the problems in the industrial food model that drives much of what happens right now in production agriculture.
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Tomorrow is a day off from school since the school facility is also part of the church overflow at Cedar Crest, and the funeral of Albert Miller will be held there. This is the third school day that is being canceled this year in favor of a funeral in our churches. If we have snow days or more funerals, we'll need to make up some school days on Saturday or shorten vacations, or something else, since the built-in slack is disappearing fast.
Albert was my co-teacher Norma's uncle.
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Snow is predicted overnight, into tomorrow and Tuesday. The temperature, however, will hover right around freezing, and I can't imagine that there will be much accumulation.
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My brother Ronald's family planned to arrive today to spend the week in this community. They live in SE Kansas, and had planned to come later in the week when Ron speaks at our winter Bible school. Their accelerated schedule is because of the funeral tomorrow. Albert's son Verlin was Ronald's classmate and close friend.
They're staying in Marvin and Lois' Partridge house while the Masts are still living at Cottonwood--their Nickerson house.
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Lowell and David returned safely last night from India.
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Leanna's mother has been diagnosed with four different kinds of cancer--all considered untreatable. We're all so sorry. Joseph's family left again today to spend time with her and others of the family in MO.
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Daughter-in-law Hilda was the speaker for our women's banquet at church on Friday eve. She spoke on beauty, and did a super job.
This is the second year that I have a young prayer partner for the year. (The banquet always marks the transition.) Eunice was the one for last year, and Jewel for this year. I like this connection with them.
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Virgie Headings' funeral brought some of the Kuepfer family from Canada to the community. They were relatives of the Headings', and close neighbors to my father's family until they moved away in 1940. Aaron, Levi, and Velma were at our church this morning, if I remember the names right.
Lorne K., who has been part of our church for a long time, remembers gratefully their contribution to his own life when he was a child growing up in Canada.
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Shane and Dorcas plan to come for Thanksgiving. We're looking forward to a family mizutaki meal, making use of the thriving shungiku (edible chrysanthemum) growing in the garden--at least if it withstands the predicted slightly-below-freezing weather.
This is a very distinctive Japanese dish, which we all love a lot.
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I'm cautiously hopeful that the bedbugs we encountered in KC did not hitchhike home with us. At least I am not sporting large new crops of bites, as was the case for a while. I don't understand though how bites that all may have happened at nearly the same time take varying amounts of time to get itchy and obnoxious.
I'll have to check with my room mates to see if their experience parallels mine.
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Did you know that terminally ill people often seem to need permission to die? Albert Miller waited until the last person arrived who was traveling "home" because of his illness and impending death. His heartbeats and respirations had slowed so dramatically the day before, that the nurses believed he would not live another hour. But his brother Jay was not arriving till the next day, so he waited till after that to die.
His wife and children had verbally given him permission to go, as they had been assured was appropriate and necessary.
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Everything felt better at school right after Wes got back on Wednesday. He still has a husky voice from whatever was wrong with his throat, but the fever disappeared on Tuesday.
While he was gone I gave the students a lecture on staying home if they get sick. Fussy old lady they probably were thinking.
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Our new friends Koji and Nanami Suzuki connected in PA with our old friends Lee and Adella Kanagy. Years ago, Lee and Adella lived and worked for several decades in Hokkaido, Japan, where the Suzukis grew up.
The Suzukis also carried greetings from Susanna to Herman B., who used to be in her youth group in IN. He lives now in PA and works for Goodville. He returned the greeting via an email from Nanami to Hiromi.
The message seemed to resonate with the students. I'm keeping a list of all those who individually asked me if they could borrow it to show to their family at home. I sent it home with Marvin on Friday.
Coming up next is a memo to students and parents about the food production class that is being offered next semester. I am impressed that producing your own food is the most elegant and do-able way to avoid many of the problems in the industrial food model that drives much of what happens right now in production agriculture.
************************
Tomorrow is a day off from school since the school facility is also part of the church overflow at Cedar Crest, and the funeral of Albert Miller will be held there. This is the third school day that is being canceled this year in favor of a funeral in our churches. If we have snow days or more funerals, we'll need to make up some school days on Saturday or shorten vacations, or something else, since the built-in slack is disappearing fast.
Albert was my co-teacher Norma's uncle.
************************
Snow is predicted overnight, into tomorrow and Tuesday. The temperature, however, will hover right around freezing, and I can't imagine that there will be much accumulation.
************************
My brother Ronald's family planned to arrive today to spend the week in this community. They live in SE Kansas, and had planned to come later in the week when Ron speaks at our winter Bible school. Their accelerated schedule is because of the funeral tomorrow. Albert's son Verlin was Ronald's classmate and close friend.
They're staying in Marvin and Lois' Partridge house while the Masts are still living at Cottonwood--their Nickerson house.
***********************
Lowell and David returned safely last night from India.
************************
Leanna's mother has been diagnosed with four different kinds of cancer--all considered untreatable. We're all so sorry. Joseph's family left again today to spend time with her and others of the family in MO.
***********************
Daughter-in-law Hilda was the speaker for our women's banquet at church on Friday eve. She spoke on beauty, and did a super job.
This is the second year that I have a young prayer partner for the year. (The banquet always marks the transition.) Eunice was the one for last year, and Jewel for this year. I like this connection with them.
***********************
Virgie Headings' funeral brought some of the Kuepfer family from Canada to the community. They were relatives of the Headings', and close neighbors to my father's family until they moved away in 1940. Aaron, Levi, and Velma were at our church this morning, if I remember the names right.
Lorne K., who has been part of our church for a long time, remembers gratefully their contribution to his own life when he was a child growing up in Canada.
**********************
Shane and Dorcas plan to come for Thanksgiving. We're looking forward to a family mizutaki meal, making use of the thriving shungiku (edible chrysanthemum) growing in the garden--at least if it withstands the predicted slightly-below-freezing weather.
This is a very distinctive Japanese dish, which we all love a lot.
**********************
I'm cautiously hopeful that the bedbugs we encountered in KC did not hitchhike home with us. At least I am not sporting large new crops of bites, as was the case for a while. I don't understand though how bites that all may have happened at nearly the same time take varying amounts of time to get itchy and obnoxious.
I'll have to check with my room mates to see if their experience parallels mine.
*********************
Did you know that terminally ill people often seem to need permission to die? Albert Miller waited until the last person arrived who was traveling "home" because of his illness and impending death. His heartbeats and respirations had slowed so dramatically the day before, that the nurses believed he would not live another hour. But his brother Jay was not arriving till the next day, so he waited till after that to die.
His wife and children had verbally given him permission to go, as they had been assured was appropriate and necessary.
**********************
Everything felt better at school right after Wes got back on Wednesday. He still has a husky voice from whatever was wrong with his throat, but the fever disappeared on Tuesday.
While he was gone I gave the students a lecture on staying home if they get sick. Fussy old lady they probably were thinking.
**********************
Our new friends Koji and Nanami Suzuki connected in PA with our old friends Lee and Adella Kanagy. Years ago, Lee and Adella lived and worked for several decades in Hokkaido, Japan, where the Suzukis grew up.
The Suzukis also carried greetings from Susanna to Herman B., who used to be in her youth group in IN. He lives now in PA and works for Goodville. He returned the greeting via an email from Nanami to Hiromi.
posted by Mrs. I at
8:30 PM
2 Comments:
I thought of you last night as I was trying to sleep in the hotel the airline had put me up for the night. Your post came to mind and I didn't know if the stings were real or imagined,as, well, there were some things lacking at that location. :) So, in the wee hours of the morning you came to mind. I guess a few hours of sleep in an apparently inexpensive hotel are better than hanging out in an airport overnight. Some of the travelers in a similar plight didn't think that was their favorite pick of hotels either. Someone suggested I could write "Missed my flight in _____ and got this t-shirt" on the shirt I found in the airline overnight kit. I was grateful for the vouchers and now a bit humored by the experience (as long as those pricks were a tired imagination). :) -L.
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Anonymous, at 11/17/2009
This is a follow up on my previous comment. I commend the airline for the professional manner in which they handled my customer feedback. They have been in touch with me and will be checking out the facility in which some of us stayed. -L.
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Anonymous, at 11/20/2009
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