It is a dreary-looking morning.
The sky is cloudy and I am wondering if I should do my laundry. We planned to wash curtains and windows today, but I will wait another hour and see what the weather will be. No sense in hanging things outside to dry if they are going to get wet again!
Susan, Verena, Benjamin, Loretta and Joseph left a few minutes ago at 7 a.m. to begin their school day. Lovina is still sleeping, Elizabeth is doing some writing and Kevin is playing with little toy horses. He tries to make them all stand in a row. Usually they keep falling down, but he keeps standing them back up. This keeps him entertained for quite a while. His asthma has been firing up with the humidity, so he had a bad day yesterday. We started giving him breathing treatments, and this morning he seems a lot better.
Joseph comes home from school around noon. He seems to like school but is a tired boy by evening.
Elizabeth and I prepared 13 quarts of V-8 juice on Saturday and managed to do a big laundry. Joe and the other children were working on cleaning up some of the mess around the old house.
Labor Day ended up being a busy one around here. Jacob, Emma and family and sisters Susan and Verena came to help us around here. We worked on clearing out the basement in the old house. We still didn't have everything moved over here yet.
Also, most of my canning jars were still over there. Joe and Jacob tore off some more siding while we moved the jars. The children had our pony, Stormy, hitched up to the pony wagon to help haul things away.
Then in the afternoon, we put out 188 bales of hay in our hay field. This was a hot job. We put in a long day, but quit earlier to get the children all cleaned up before they started their first day of school on Tuesday.
Yesterday Elizabeth, Lovina, Kevin and I went to Jacob and Emma's to help them with some work. Elizabeth and I helped Emma do her laundry and processed 22&1/2 quarts of homemade V-8 juice.
Emma's baby Steven is 7 pounds and 4 ounces and is an active little boy. It's a change for Emma to take time to care for a little one after five years but she's enjoying it. We are sure enjoying helping to spoil him.
Kevin enjoyed his second birthday and is saying two and tries to put up two fingers. Such sweet blessings sent from our great God.
With all the tomatoes still available from the garden, try this quick recipe to use some of them up.
Tomato Pancakes
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 c. diced home-grown tomatoes in their juice
40 Saltines
Salt to taste
Butter for frying
Combine the eggs, tomatoes, Saltines and salt. Shape into 4-inch pancakes and fry on medium heat in buttered skillet. Fry for about 2 minutes on each side.
Lovina Eicher is Old Order Amish. She hand-writes this column from her home in southern Michigan. Anyone with cultural or cooking questions can send them to: Lovina Eicher, The Amish Cook, P.O. Box 2144, Middletown, OH 45042. Read all of her columns online at www.record-eagle.com/amishcook.
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