Today was an especially important day in our church history:  we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first service of the Hempfield Church of Christ.  Out of the 100 original charter members, seven were in attendance this morning, and three…

The first Sunday of May each year is Free Museum Day in Ligonier.  This year, as part of their home school program, Kelly and Matt brought the boys up and we made a day of it.  The cloudy drizzle did…

The Hempfield Area schools are winding down for another year, and with it comes activities and concerts to share the student progress with parents and friends.  Last night I went to Harrold Middle School for their band concert performance.  Chrissy…

Last week I decided that the lilac shrubs needed cleaned out – they were too thick and too tall.  Got them thinned out, but didn’t want to cut them short until after they had bloomed.  So on Sunday night I…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Hempfield High School’s spring choral concert.  I haven’t been in the high school auditorium since Nate graduated from High School!  But Autmn was in the chorus and I was not working that…

Our family plans for Mother’s Day this year were very low key – which was happily fine with me!  After church, Chrissy and I stopped at Aldi’s to pick up a few items.  The store is closing for a massive…

I decided I would work backwards – I am behind 3 or 4 posts and will try to catch up quickly.  But I’ll start with this past weekend, as Kath and I took our monthly journey up I-79 to visit…

Winter was a real bugger this year – overstaying its welcome and pushing spring much further forward than anyone liked.  My normal mid-March agenda got pushed into the end of April, and still was sporadic.  Who wants to do yardwork…

Right after Christmas last year we all got together via email messages and finally chose the weekend of April 27/28 for our 2018 Dillweed B&B Skunk Hollow Women’s Fest event.  We had not been to the B&B in a few…

Well I am a little behind in posting in the Word Garden.  I have several subjects to cover so these may be short! Two weeks ago we went to Mom and John’s, and decided even thought it was 10 days…