Seasonal Picture in my Heading!

Well, I changed my picture up above. It's the same scene taken in a snowstorm instead of fall harvest-time!

Ken is off work now until next Tuesday. They had a plant shutdown for the Thanksgiving holiday. His job security there seems to go down a notch every day.

We plan to go to Todd and Sue's on Thursday for turkey with some of her family. I am to take angel biscuits, a family favorite! I will try to take a picture of the finished product and put the recipe and picture on our recipe blog.

These days I am enjoying facebook a lot. It is so special to connect with our dear friends, young and old, from Pennsylvania and other states. I even have a connection in Canada and London, England!

November, my least favorite month, will soon be over. It has not been a dreary month because we have had snow on the ground a lot (and in the air, too!).

Replacing My First Digital Camera

We recently purchased a new Panasonic digital camera to replace the old FujiFilm. The old one was no longer working as efficiently as it should so we decided to retire it. What a difference a few years have made in digital cameras!

The new camera's readout covers nearly the whole back of the camera. WOW! My grandkids are gonna love it! After I take their picture, they always say, "Can I see?"

The new camera is lots smaller, as you can see! It feels so dainty and petite compared to the old one. And, view finders are now a thing of the past. I never got used to taking a picture on my old camera by just looking at the readout, but now it is a must to learn. The large size readout makes it much easier to learn.

I don't remember learning about digital cameras and computer pictures. It seems that they just slid into my everyday existance somehow.

I am old enough to remember film and flashbulbs for cameras! (Can you even buy them anymore?) Pictures were a bit of a luxury item to take, and we didn't just snap, snap, snap, back in the olden days. You had to wait a week or so for them to get developed, either in the drug store, or mail order, then the thrill of opening up the package to see how they turned out! Black and white pictures were cheaper, of course, and better for kids with their first camera.

One of my big picture regrets is that we don't have any pictures taken of me with my newborn babies in the hospital. Nowadays, people take lots of pictures of newborns, but back in the 70's, we didn't take lots of pictures!

Yes, pictures today are so much easier and lots of fun. We can share them on our blogs and on facebook. My screensaver on my computer is fixed to scan through my pictures, and it is fun to see the random shots!

Family Recipe Blog

A couple of weeks ago I started a recipe blog after seeing a couple on the internet. It is possible to have a blog that is authored by several people, so I decided to start one to be authored by the descendents of my parents, Herb and Lenore Lindberg. I have invited about 12 or 14, and we have several recipes up and going, with more family members jumping on the bandwagon! The blog is open to anyone to read or browse. Even if you are not part of our family, you are welcome to read and use our recipes!

So, stop and visit www.lindbergfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com. We would enjoy your comments!

The Vulture and the Hummingbird

I think this little story was published in the Reader's Digest. Don Grady shared it with us in Sunday morning meeting in the summer of 2001. In September of that year, we heard it told at Madisonville, KY convention. It's a story that helps me to think about the best things!

I wanted to get pictures of the two birds, but was afraid I might be infringing on copyright laws to get them from the web, so you will just have to picture them in your own mind!!

The Vulture and the Hummingbird

Both the vulture and the hummingbird fly over our nation's deserts.

All the vulture sees is rotting meat, because that is what it looks for. It thrives on that diet.

But the hummingbird ignores the smelly flesh of dead animals. Insted, it looks for the colorful blossoms of desert plants.

The vulture lives on what was. It lives on the past. It fills itself with what is dead and gone.

But the hummingbird lives on what is. It seeks new life. It fills itself with freshness and life.

Each bird finds what it is looking for. We all do...........

Kirsten turns seven!!

Ah, isn't she cute? She was about 18 months old in the picture on the left. The picture on the right was taken just a few weeks ago. Today, Nov. 6th, is her birthday. I often say that if she had blue eyes instead of beautiful brown eyes, she would make a cute little Scandinavian gal!

The day of her birth will always be special in my memory. Jill had gall bladder trouble during her pregnancy with Kirsten, and was in the hospital for several days before Kirsten was born. When the medicine they gave her to induce her finally began to work, things happened very fast, and I was the one who was there with her for the birth. Leigh did not make it back to the hospital in time, and he walked into the room, ready to coach his wife, and instead found her with Kirsten in her arms!

Another interesting fact is that Kirsten was born on what would have been my Aunt Bertha's 100th birthday, if she had been living. She would have been very pleased because she certainly loved all us kids and our kids!

We have two other November birthdays in our family--my sister, Lois, and my daughter-in-law, DeAnn.

This weather this November has not been typical! It has been mild and sunshiney, and I have laundry hanging on the line. Those sheets will smell good tonight! This nice weather makes me feel a teensy bit guilty about dirty windows!!

And November is here...

November, my least favorite month of the year. It always seems to me to be such a dismal month where I wish the weather would just get on with it, and not make us endure the brown, cloudy, rainy days.

Now that I got my crabbing out of the way, I would like to say that this first day of November has been very pleasant, in the 60's! We had a cloudy morning, but the afternoon was very pleasant. Ken helped me and we got the garden cleaned up and "put to bed" for the winter--tomato tie-ups removed and stakes pulled out. Then Ken went over it with the brush-hog to mow it all down and chew everything up. All those weed seeds and grass clippings will get plowed under next April, all being well!

Linda H. and I have been having lots of email fun the last couple days setting up a recipe blog for the Lindberg family descendents. It is up and running, but Linda is using her digital photo expertise to make it lovely and attractive. I will write more about it when we have it set up to admit the public for viewing!!

Dismal November is redeemed by Thanksgiving, which is my favorite holiday!

And, don't forget to turn the clocks back tonight!

Our trip to Port Allegany

Roy and DeAnn have been wanting to go up to see Olive and Alice for a good while. Roy had a vacation week this week so they came up here on Monday. The three of us went up on Tuesday to see Olive at the nursing home in Smethport, then lunch at the Cottage House, and on to see Alice at her little house. Leah came over and shared the visit. Joe had gone to be with his daughter who was in the hospital in Rochester, NY. On our return trip we stopped at Lindberg Furniture in Johnsonburg and saw Bonnie, Randy, and Randy's little girl, Ella.

Olive looked well cared-for and had a pleasant smile. Roy mentioned to her that conventions would soon be starting in Argentina. She said she loved Argentina, and I asked where what it was about Argentina that she loved! Her reply: "the people". We reminded her about her story of when the workers came in 1914, and DeAnn asked her who the workers were, and she replied, "Nettie Miller and Inez London." One is glad for the things that are indelibly written on our hearts that remain such a part of us no matter what!

Many of you would know that my mother and Olive were the same age, and their parents heard the Gospel in that same mission in 1914. That is the reason why I wanted to have my picture taken with her!

We had a great time with Alice and Leah, too. Alice said she only has pain when she tries to move. I thought she seemed to have more trouble hearing the conversation than she used to. She does such a great job with keeping up with all the news of everybody through her email!

Alice will turn 91 in December, and Olive will turn 99! Leah said she was 83.

So, it was a lovely day for this blogger, spending time with my son and daughter-in-law, and with other dear friends who have been such a part of us for so many years!