Catching Up

March 2, 2011
I'm getting behind again on this blog.  The days go by so fast and then you're a couple of weeks behind.
I'm going to catch up grandma's diary first of all.  The last entry from the diary was February 18, 1914 so I will start with the 19th below.
Feb.19, 1914. Thur. Went to Aunt Parcie Keisers funeral at Akron and burial at Uniontown, was over home, went to church in eve.
Feb. 20, 1914. Fri.  was over home. baked six loaves of bread and ten pies. Hazel and I took car (street car) and went to Akron to do shopping in afternoon.
Feb 21, 1914. Sat. done saturdays work. Sam was here to dinner. had 3 callers.
Feb 22, 1914. Sunday. went to Sunday school and church in morning. read fifteen Psalms. went to church in evening.
Feb 23, 1914. Mon. ten degrees below zero. done washing. read eight Psalms.
Feb 24, 1914. Tues. ironed. mended. baked a cake.
Feb 25, 1914. Weds. fifteen degrees below zero in morning. mended. read twenty Psalms. had six callers.
Feb 26, 1914. Thurs. butchered. Sam was here for dinner and supper. read two chapters.
Feb 27, 1914 Fri. churned butter read the last nine Psalms. baked seventy five fried cakes, eleven pies and six loaves bread. Walter Smith was here to dinner. went to entertainment at Keisers school house in the evening.
Feb 28, 1914. Sat. done saturdays work. went up to Will Ritzmans in the evening with bob sled load. got home at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Mar 1, 1914. Sunday. stormy. read eleven chapters of Proverbs. had four callers.
Mar 2, 1914. Mon. Blizzards all day. mended. read four chapters.

Well! Got that all caught up. 
The last couple of weeks I've been wearing the keys out on the laptop trying to get all the loose ends together for the Habitat for Humanity New Zealand trip we are leading in May.  It takes quite a bit of work to plan the itinerary, pick out the campgrounds for overnight stays, etc.  We try to choose a route that has things of interest to see and do also.  We think that it's going to be a great trip once again.

This year we had an extraordinary number of single college students under 21 that were interested in going on the trip but they can't rent and drive motor homes from the agency that we use unless they are 21 or older. 

We are pleased to know that there's a number of young people out there who want to explore other parts of the world and help others in low income levels to gain safe decent housing for their families by working with Habitat.  Joan and I talked it over and came up with a plan for them to ride with us during the day and then we put them in a cabin at night.  We think that their young attitudes and enthusiam will be refreshing.

After getting home from Florida and having to shovel the snow out of the end where the township snowplow put it we decided that we should have stayed another week or two to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather there.  So far we've had another snow storm with about 6 inches of snow and a rain storm that flooded virtually all the rivers in northern Ohio.  I think a good plan would be to head to Florida in January and not come back until about the end of March.

So much for all the whining!

Life is good!